Claim Your Free Access to AAA Leadership Programme Taster The pandemic has changed the DNA of our aviation ecosystem, accelerating the need for stronger leadership. Aviation leaders must learn to adjust advance and achieve through these changes and challenges, whilst keeping their performance sharp, to lead aviation stakeholders towards a streamlined recovery. We believe this is the best time for aviation leaders to be empowered by transformational leadership to maximise thei

Pilot shortages have become critical for airlines in the US recently. Thousands of scheduled flights were being cancelled mostly due to pilot shortage, while travel demand is increasing. Not only that, the rapid spread from the COVID Omicron variant causes many pilots sick leave, self-isolation and being unable to perform duties. In December 2021, United’s regional partners parked nearly 100 regional jets due to not having pilots to perform the flights. The root cause of the

With preparations underway for Summer 2022, airline network planners are looking at ways of recapturing market share in what should be a very aggressively competitive summer season. As pandemic restrictions start to fade into the background, there is a high urge for global travel, led by families wanting to take summer holidays and expats wanting to return to their home countries to visit friends and family, which will inevitably give airlines looking at trying to position th

This might not be something you want to think about, but what happens if you lose your licence? Will you be able to preserve your way of life if you need to choose a different career, or even worse, if you can not work at all? It is for this reason that different types of licence insurance are in place. Your commercial flight crew licence is only valid in combination with a valid class 1 medical. Hence, if you fail your medical you automatically lose your flight crew licence.

There are different routes that can lead students to become aircraft maintenance engineers. Usually, this selection is based on the time they want to spend, their personal targets, the individual circumstances and the skill set they want to develop the most. The following testimonials include the experiences of two engineers who decided to become aircraft maintenance engineers and took two different routes. Student 1, Abhishek from Nepal: Since I was kid, I have loved aviatio

Vietnam’s aviation market is expected to strongly rebound this year as the recent recovery signs of both domestic and international traffic raise hopes following a bad year of 2021 due to the pandemic. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), domestic airlines operated 126,280 flights in 2021, down 41.7 percent year-on-year, and nearly 60 percent from the pre-pandemic level. International regular flights had been completely frozen since the first wave of t

Aircraft recycling is a long-established industry but one which has only recently gained more credibility as the number of aircraft being disassembled has increased significantly. The COVID-driven reduction in demand on commercial aviation, and the general focus on cost reduction, has increased to an unseen level the amount of parked/stored aircraft. As commercial operators worldwide upgrade their fleets to more efficient aircraft models to reduce their ever-increasing fuel b

Since the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020, restrictions for travellers were placed by most governments in the world to reduce the spreading of the virus. Unfortunately, there are still high COVID-19 positive test rates in some countries, with high death toll and with different variants, making the Governments take measures to restrict the entrance to foreign travellers or people from countries on the red lists. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged govern

Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born in Atlanta, US on January 26, 1892. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license and an early American civil aviator. Born to a family of sharecroppers in Texas, Coleman was the tenth of thirteen children. She worked in the cotton fields from when she was six years old while also studying in a small segregated school. Since the beginning, she was an excellent student especially in Maths and she

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) held its annual meeting in Boston, USA from October 3rd to 5th, and released the latest global aviation industry financial performance outlook. The report shows that although the Covid epidemic crisis continues, the performance of the worldwide aviation industry has improved. IATA predicts that in 2022, the global aviation industry demand will return to 61% of the level in 2019, and the total global passenger traffic will re