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If shipping and aviation don’t rein in their emissions it could seriously jeopardise our goal of preventing more than 2°C of warming.
There are hundreds and hundreds of side events across the two weeks of the UN climate conference here in Paris. It’s often hard to choose between them. Choosing to attend the International Civil Aviation…
Aviation, which transformed travel and way of life in the 20th century, is being transformed in the 21st century and faces some difficult 21st-century problems.
China’s aviation industry is bucking the global economic slowdown. But the women that fuel it are facing burnout.
Drones are here, carrying cameras, delivering packages and even toting guns. But the laws to govern their use are way behind.
Ghoulish obsession with flames, death and grief among the media obscures how safe we really are.
Australia has borne the brunt of costs for MH370. But there are fairer ways to apportion costs for future searches.
The aircraft part found on an Indian ocean island is said to be from a Boeing 777 but the challenge now is to determine if the wreckage is from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370.
Greenhouse emissions from the aviation industry are still largely unregulated. The prospect of regulations for US flights sounds like progress, but it won’t happen without an elusive international consensus.
What if you could grow biofuels on land nobody wants, using just seawater and sunlight, and produce food at the same time?
If Cabinet approves of a proposal to open up some domestic aviation routes to foreign airlines it would put Australia at odds with almost every other country.
If passengers are to be offered in-flight Wi-Fi, then airlines should add another black box to record what’s happening on their networks.
How do we make aircraft more efficient? By keeping them in the air longer.
Cost cutting by commercial airlines has led to a worrying rise in inexperienced pilots.
Delivering for Amazon, providing internet connection for Facebook: commercial drone flights are here, and we need rules to govern them, fast.
The fact we’re no closer to finding Flight MH370 shouldn’t stop us from looking.
With oil prices on the decline, and analysts predicting record profits for the 2014/15 financial year, Qantas and Virgin Australia are under increasing pressure to abolish fuel surcharges and lower their…
The bid by British Airways’ owner, IAG, to buy Aer Lingus is yet another step towards the establishment of the three dominant network carriers in the EU airline market. The Aer Lingus board is currently…
Aviation has an emissions problem. As an industry, both in the scope of its operations and the nature of its emissions, aviation has a significant effect on the environment. Despite this, aviation emissions…
On December 28, AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashed into the sea between Indonesia and Singapore. Shortly before the crash, the pilots requested an alteration to the flight route due to severe weather. While…


















