Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The proposed directive would require inspections on 95 US-registered aircraft after Boeing reported some elevator control bearings may have been installed incorrectly, or without sealant, during production. The FAA has proposed a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing 737-8, 737-9 and 737-8200 airplanes, marketed as the 737 MAX 8, MAX 9 and MAX 200, […]
The Johannesburg-based University of the Witwatersrand and the Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace will align their engineering curricula and run a reciprocal faculty exchange, backed by Airbus Southern Africa. AIRBUS, WITS UNIVERSITY AND ISAE-SUPAERO SIGN AGREEMENT TO BOOST SOUTH AFRICA’S AEROSPACE CAPABILITIES Airbus Southern Africa, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and
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Sandra Diaso, Head of Human Resources at private charter and ACMI operator KlasJet, argues that what keeps professionals in aviation for decades has less to do with cockpits than with how freely people move between departments. WHY AVIATION CAREERS BECOME LIFELONG, ACCORDING TO KLASJET’S HR CHIEF Sandra Diaso started her career as a civil
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The Rand Airport Airshow returned on Sunday 30 August 2026 for the first time since 2023, bringing aerobatic displays, historic aircraft and flying school exhibits back to one of South Africa’s oldest airfields, with Essential Fuels as headline sponsor. FIRST AIRSHOW AT THE GERMISTON AIRFIELD SINCE 2023 The Rand Airport Airshow returned to Rand
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Boeing forecasts that commercial aviation will need 674,000 new pilots over the next two decades, yet competition for entry-level First Officer positions remains intense. Industry figures interviewed by BAA Training argue the contradiction is not real: the shortage is a twenty-year projection, while today’s hiring is shaped by delayed aircraft deliveries, parked capacity and a
An analysis by Texas Christian University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation finds that American Airlines’ hub at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport supports around $70 billion in annual economic output and an estimated 350,000 jobs across North Texas, and identifies its connectivity as a factor in the region’s corporate headquarters growth. A HUB LARGER THAN
Charlie Trimble, who founded Trimble in 1978 and brought the world’s first commercially viable GPS receiver to market six years later, will receive the American Geographical Society’s O.M. Miller Cartographic Medal, in recognition for the commercialisation of a technology that now underpins satellite navigation and approach guidance across aviation. A COMMERCIAL BET ON AN EXPERIMENTAL
The FAA’s proposed rule would insert a new 14 CFR 400.3 disapplying specified provisions of 13 federal laws — including NEPA in full and Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act — from launch site, reentry site, experimental permit and vehicle operator licences. The waiver would extend beyond FAA licensing to Federal site leases, airspace
IATA’s June air cargo data shows African carriers with the fastest year-to-date demand growth of any world region at 11.1%, more than double the global average of 4.9%. Over the same period African capacity contracted by 0.7%, and in June alone available lift fell 7.1% while every other region added capacity — leaving the continent’s
ICAO’s 2025 Safety Report documents commercial aviation’s safest year by accident rate on record, with fatal accidents falling 60% year-on-year to just four — but total fatalities rose from 296 to 387, with a single accident accounting for 260 deaths, underscoring the enduring challenge of preventing rare but catastrophic events in an industry carrying nearly
