Aerospace & Air Transport Industries

Most view the environment in its simplistic sense - that it is the overall summation of all things natural. In this context, the pervasive common v...

The Federal Aviation Administration''s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides air traffic control (ATC) services within U.S. and certain int...

Each day, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controls the take-offs, landings, and flights of over 50,000 aircrafts. To accomplish this miss...

The Airport Improvement Program (AIP) provides federal grants to airports for airport development and planning. The airports participating in the A...

Past communicable diseases, such as the recent Ebola epidemic, have resulted in many deaths and highlight the potential economic cost of disruption...

International flights bound for the United States continue to be targets of terrorist activity, as demonstrated by the October 2010 discovery of ex...

In 2014, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) major pro...

Airlines have imposed a variety of fees on a range of optional services, such as checked and carry-on bags; meals; blankets; early boarding; and se...

The passenger airline industry in the United States has gone through significant changes since deregulation in 1978. In domestic operations, airlin...

The story of aviation is, above all, the story of success. Few, if any, industries could have equalled the astounding pace of the development of fl...

John Tyes job at British Airways was supposed to be only temporary, a way for him to pass the summer before starting university. Instead, it would ...

'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew milli...