The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has installed an automatic dependent surveillance system at the air traffic control centres of Chennai and Kolkatta in an effort to improve air safety in oceanic airspace.
The satellite-based navigation system was designed and developed for the AAI by Indian Government-owned Electronics Corporation of India.
Source: Flight International
Norwegian airports operator Avinor is to expand its remote-tower programme to another seven regional sites. Avinor has identified the additional airports as Batsfjord, Vadso, Sorkjosen, Sandane, Mosjoen, Orsta Volda, and the new facility for Mo i Rana. The organisation formally opened a remote-tower centre in Bodo in October 2020, through ...
Istanbul airport chief executive Selahattin Bilgen is calling for greater industry co-operation to achieve more efficiency gains, as it continues participating in a programme aimed at introducing independent triple-runway operations at the airport.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating an incident involving a Southwest Airlines jet that reportedly took off from a closed runway at Portland International Jetport in Maine on 25 June.
