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More frequent heat waves due to global warming may ground up to a third of airplanes worldwide in decades to come with some airports in New York and Dubai likely to be hard hit, a study showed on Thursday. Airlines may increasingly be forced to cut their loads of passengers, cargo or fuel in order […]
Read More Could climate change ground a third of aircraft?
Spanish airline Iberia is to stop requiring women to take a pregnancy test as part of its recruitment process, it said in a statement on its website. A pregnancy test, which was a routine part of the medical examination that potential female recruits had to undergo, will be stopped, the airline said. “We will no longer […]
Read More Spanish airline Iberia to end pregnancy tests as part of recruitment
Airports Council International (ACI)‘s Airport Carbon Accreditation programme reduced carbon dioxide emissions by more than 200,000 tonnes in the reporting year ending June 2016, according to ACI Director General Angela Gittens. The programme is now in its eighth year with 182 accredited airports in 54 countries. Writing for Airport World, Ms Gittens asserted that ACI’s […]
Read More Airport carbon dioxide emissions cut by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/16: ACI
The US leads in an international effort to train airline and airport staff to spot and report potential human trafficking. However does aviation lag behind other tourism supply chain sectors? Report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Flight attendant Donna Hubbard was deeply concerned when a couple carried a boy who was sweating, lethargic and appeared […]
Read More Aviation, tourism can do more to stop human trafficking