The European airport and air traffic management (ATM) infrastructure will face gridlock by 2005, and by 2015 will only be able to service 75% of travel demand, warns a new study commissioned by the 38-state European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC). The announcement came at a 22 March Paris meeting of ECAC's Collaborative Forum of Stakeholders, which urged that action to boost the system's capacity must start now.
Source: Flight International
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
American Airlines and United Airlines are resuming flights having been forced to temporarily halt operations as part of the wide-ranging global impact of an IT outage today.
A global technology outage appears to have caused several major US airlines to ground departing aircraft, in addition to creating problems at airports and airlines worldwide that threatens to snarl air traffic.
