A fundamental paradox defines Argentine aviation in 2025: a market experiencing historic, double-digit passenger growth is simultaneously being crippled by systemic labor conflicts. This is not a simple wage dispute; it is an ideological war between two opposing visions for…
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is trying to get one million people to sign a petition to force the European Commission to take action against France and the countless strikes at air traffic control (ATC). The airline is fed up with the…
Airlines for Europe (A4E) released news that should be read and digested. The EU experiment remains a work in progress. The “seamless European sky” is still a fantasy. For the full year, A4E reports Eurocontrol estimates that total delay minutes…
Ops Group put out an urgent message that warrants attention. “Last week, 120 Ethiopian Air Traffic Controllers announced a strike. Approximately 100 of them have now been banned from operating, and 10 of them – including the Chief Controller, Senior…
Privatization of Air Traffic Control has come up on almost an annual basis for the last couple of decades, and the battle has been between the airlines, who favor the concept, and general aviation, who do not. The rationale is…
The United States was once the global leader in aviation, enabled by a forward thinking FAA. Today, that agency is bogged in politics and red tape, resulting in decision-making processes that would result in a description of incompetence and the…