Aviation safety
State in which risks associated with aviation are at an acceptable level
Follow Aviation safety on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
We include updates on Pakistan International Airlines, Asiana Airlines Flight 214, Franz Reichelt, Air Koryo, Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision, List of aircraft hijackings, Aircraft hijacking, Suicide by pilot, Buddha Air, Iran Air, Swiss cheese model, Flight recorder, ETOPS ... and more.
| March 2025 |
Aeroflot Flight 1492
The final report was issued, concluding that the hard landing was due to human factors, specifically the captain's difficulty controlling the aircraft in direct flight control law mode.
|
| January 25 2025 | PIA commenced a once-a-week flight between Lahore and Kuwait. |
| January 22 2025 | PIA started two weekly flights between Lahore and Dammam. |
| January 21 2025 | PIA introduced a weekly service between Sialkot and Doha, Qatar. |
| January 20 2025 | PIA began offering two weekly flights between Sialkot and Bahrain, and started a weekly flight from Faisalabad to Jeddah. |
| January 16 2025 | Launched direct flights to Sapporo. |
| January 10 2025 | PIA resumed flights to Europe with a flight to Paris, but subsequently apologized for an advertisement that was criticized for using imagery reminiscent of the September 11 attacks, leading to a Prime Minister inquiry. |
| January 6 2025 | PIA announced plans to expand its destinations in the Middle East, including deploying Boeing 777 and Airbus A320 aircraft to new routes. |
| January 1 2025 | PIA Flight 503 from Karachi to New Gwadar Airport returned to Karachi after developing a technical fault and was later repaired. |
| 2024 | Cebu Pacific retired its Airbus A330-300 fleet, selling the aircraft to multiple airlines and replacing them with Airbus A330-900 models. |
| 2024 | Projected fleet size of 98 aircraft and anticipated passenger count of 24.54 million. |
| 2024 | Air Koryo began changing its crane logo, replacing the previous design that symbolized Korean peninsula unification with a new logo featuring tapered horizontal lines. |
| 2024 | Leased a Boeing 777-200 from Eastern Air Lines for Hajj flights. |
| 2024 | Multiple aircraft introduced with 'PON XXI Aceh Sumut 2024' livery, including Boeing 737-800 aircraft with registrations PK-GFU and PK-GNH |
| 2024 | Wamildan Tsani Panjaitan becomes the current president/CEO of Garuda Indonesia, starting in 2024. |
| 2024 | Buddha Air planned to retire its ATR 42-300 aircraft. |
| December 11 2024 | Flew its 250 millionth passenger from Singapore to Manila. |
| October 2024 | Criticized for mishandling baggage delays due to technical problems with the baggage handling system at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. |
| October 2024 | Launched new direct flights from Cebu to Bangkok (Don Mueang) and Osaka. Relaunched Davao–Hong Kong services and started a new Davao–Bangkok service. |
| October 29 2024 | Started flying thrice weekly to Chiang Mai. |
| October 7 2024 | Cebu Pacific announced the acquisition of AirSWIFT for PHP 1.75 billion, with approval from ALI Capital Corp and Cebu Pacific's board of directors. |
| October 2 2024 | Cebu Pacific placed 70 firm orders for the A321neo, with 82 remaining as options. |
| September 27 2024 | PIA received Pakistan's first National Tourism Award for Promoting Travel and Tourism at an event organized by Discover Pakistan. Air Vice Marshal Amir Hayat, CEO of PIA, personally accepted the award in recognition of the airline's outstanding work in promoting domestic travel. |
| August 2024 | Returned to Kaohsiung after a fifteen-year hiatus. |
| July 16 2024 | Expanded Bangkok operations by launching thrice-weekly flights to Don Mueang International Airport. |
| July 11 2024 | Buddha Air Flight 805, an ATR 72-500 from Kathmandu, skidded off the runway while landing at Gautam Buddha Airport. All 59 passengers and 4 crew members were safely evacuated without injuries. |
| July 2 2024 | The airline signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus to purchase up to 152 A320neo family aircraft, worth US$24 billion. |
| June 4 2024 | The government pre-qualified 6 companies to bid for PIA privatization: Air Blue, Arif Habib Corporation, Blue World City, Fly Jinnah, Pak Ethanol (Pvt) Consortiums, and YB Holdings Consortiums. |
| June 3 2024 |
United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation
Vince Fong joins the 118th Congress House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation as a member, representing California.
|
| April 24 2024 |
United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation
Donald Payne Jr. concludes his membership in the 118th Congress House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation.
|
| April 21 2024 | Reopened its Pampanga hub at Clark International Airport. |
| February 2024 | TransNusa announced a strategic repositioning to become a 'premium service carrier', differentiating itself from other low-cost carriers. |
| February 28 2024 | Awarded Best Airline at the Routes Asia Awards 2024 for exceptional contributions to airport and destination marketing in the Asia Pacific region. |
| February 15 2024 | Earned a Gold rating in the 2023 CAPA-Envest Global Airline Sustainability Benchmarking Report for integrating sustainable aviation fuel and reducing carbon emissions. |
| February 6 2024 | Launched a fourth daily Jakarta-Doha flight with Qatar Airways, starting 2 April 2024, using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. |
| February 6 2024 | The Caretaker Cabinet of the interim Government decided to split PIA functions into two entities (TopCo and HoldCo) to make the airline more attractive to investors. |
| January 2024 | Cebu Pacific damp-leased two A320-200s from Bulgaria Air for domestic flights to Cebu and Davao City. |
| January 2 2024 |
Runway incursion
Haneda Airport runway collision between an Airbus A350-900 and a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-Q300 resulted in 5 fatalities and 18 injuries at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
|
| 2023 | Continued growth with 20.87 million passengers and expanded fleet to 85 aircraft. |
| 2023 | Leased a Boeing 777-300 from Alexandria Airlines. |
| 2023 | Buddha Air retired its Beechcraft 1900D aircraft. |
| 2023 | Buddha Air became the largest domestic carrier in Nepal in terms of passengers carried. |
| December 2023 | Kim Jong Un announced that North Korea will no longer seek reunification with South Korea, leading to a change in Air Koryo's logo design. |
| December 2023 | Interim government announced plans to privatize Pakistan International Airlines, with the Prime Minister's adviser on Aviation stating that PIA will initially be privatized as a flight entity, with decisions on other properties to be made later. |
| December 2023 | PIA was forced to cancel numerous flights due to unpaid fuel bills, leading to customer frustration and social media outcry. State-owned Pakistan State Oil suspended fueling of PIA aircraft after the airline's request for additional government funding was denied. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation, Runway incursion, TransNusa, Buddha Air, Pakistan International Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, Cebu Pacific, Air Koryo & Aeroflot Flight 1492, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.