Insurers, Regulators Warn About Safety of Jets Reactivated After Pandemic Storage December 15, 2020 By Jamie Freed SYDNEY – Regulators, insurers and experts are warning airlines to take extra care when reactivating planes left in extended storage...
Airlines, Airports Urge UN to Accept COVID Testing Over Quarantines August 18, 2020 By Allison Lampert and Jamie Freed Airlines and airports will ask a UN-led task force meeting on Tuesday to recommend countries accept a negative COVID-19 test...
Grounded Airplanes at Risk from Asia’s Tropical Storm Season, Industry Experts Warn June 3, 2020 By Jamie Freed and Ben Blanchard Airlines, airports and insurers across Asia are bracing for the prospect of unusually high damage as the region’s tropical storm...
Insight: Problems on Doomed Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Started Seconds After Takeoff April 8, 2019 By Tim Hepher, Eric M. Johnson and Jamie Freed Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation. A key sensor...
Deadly Lion Air Crash Puts Spotlight on Safety Culture Within Indonesia’s Airlines November 9, 2018 By Jamie Freed In April 2013, a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in bad...
Airport Operators Take Action Against Rising Seas, Powerful Storms as Climate Changes October 1, 2018 By Jamie Freed Global airport operators, faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms as the climate changes, are starting to invest...
Airlines Urged to Use Predictive Models, Data Sharing to Keep Skies Safe June 6, 2018 By Victoria Bryan and Jamie Freed Global airlines, coming off a record-low accident rate in 2017, need to guard against complacency over safety as heavy growth...
Regulators Had Concerns About Engine Type That Blew in Southwest Plane April 18, 2018 By Jeffrey Dastin, David Shepardson and Jamie Freed European regulators this month began requiring an inspection by early next year of the type of engine that blew apart...
Fearing Collisions, Airlines Support Global Drone Registry April 18, 2018 By Allison Lampert and Jamie Freed Concerned by a rise in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets, the world’s airlines back development of a...
Australia Floods in Wake of Cyclone Debbie Kill 4, Disrupt Mining April 3, 2017 By Jamie Freed and Tom Westbrook Damage to rail lines in cyclone-hit northeast Australia is set to disrupt exports of the steel-making material from the world’s...