Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Air Safety" produced 48 items.
| 1. Kallas asks for tighter checks on air cargo | November 5, 2010 |
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EU transport ministers will discuss new measures in early December. The European Commission has given aviation security experts a month to come up with new... |
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| 2. Volcano crisis highlights importance of air transport | May 6, 2010 |
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Europe needs to see the aviation and railway industries as part of a 'transport chain'.
In your initial conclusions about the lessons from the volcanic ash-cloud crisis... |
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| 3. Ministers put airport scanners to the test | February 11, 2010 |
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Transport ministers meet in La Coruña to weigh up the pros and cons of body scanners. The merits and drawbacks of using body scanners at airports will be argued over... | |
| 4. Too sweeping on profiling | January 21, 2010 |
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Governments are not rushing to introduce body-scanners. Gus Hosein is an acknowledged expert in the area of aviation security. He testified at length before a sub-committee... | |
| 5. EU in disarray over body-scanner rules | January 7, 2010 |
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Security experts to meet officials today amid concerns about passengers' privacy. The European Commission is to revive an earlier attempt to introduce EU-wide rules on the... |
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| 6. Spain calls for harmonised rules on body scanners | January 7, 2010 |
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Presidency says it will discuss common approach at meeting of interior and transport ministers on 20 January. The Spanish government said today that it will seek a... | |
| 7. Commission wants world aviation blacklist | July 2, 2009 |
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Recent crashes prompts call for global aviation blacklist. The European Commission wants to create a global blacklist of unsafe airlines, following Tuesday's (30 June) fatal... | |
| 8. EASA to join investigation into Barajas airport crash | August 28, 2008 |
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The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will send one official to join the investigation into last week's Madrid air crash that claimed more than 150 lives. |
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| 9. EU to publish list of items prohibited on planes | August 8, 2008 |
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Air travellers in the EU may finally be able to know in advance what they can and cannot take on board.
In a decision that will overturn some EU secrecy laws agreed... | |
| 10. EU-US sign aviation safety accord | June 30, 2008 |
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World's biggest aviation markets agree to recognise each others' safety tests.
The EU and the US have signed a new aviation safety agreement that could reduce costs for... | |
| 11. EU executive aims to cut flight times | June 25, 2008 |
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European Commission calls for simpler flight paths as part of a plan intended to improve the aviation sector's efficiency.
The European Commission is proposing to... | |
| 12. Single European sky still up in the air | April 3, 2008 |
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Europe's air-traffic system remains heavily fragmented. In 1960 the then six countries of the European Economic Community came up with a modest proposal to fix common rules... |
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| 13. Ministers back civil aviation security rules | March 6, 2008 |
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Ministers have backed an update to the civil aviation security rules that were introduced after the 11 September 2001 terrorists attacks on the US. One innovation is the... | |
| 14. Business in Brief | November 29, 2007 |
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Navigation probeThe European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Tele Atlas by TomTom, citing possible competition concerns.... | |
| 15. Institutions at loggerheads over airport security | November 8, 2007 |
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The European Parliament, the European Commission and EU member states remain divided over how the cost of security at airports should be borne with formal conciliation talks... | |
| 16. Aviation agency stuck on runway | October 18, 2007 |
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The European Parliament is battling with member states over the role of an EU agency being set up to oversee air safety. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), based in... | |
| 17. Minimising threats in the air | September 27, 2007 |
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The technology to combat security threats to aircraft is evolving constantly, writes Judith Crosbie. The attacks on the US on 11 September 2001 focused the minds of... | |
| 18. Commission seeks deals on flying with drinks | February 22, 2007 |
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The European Commission is negotiating bilateral deals with third countries to overcome the problem of airlines passengers arriving in one EU member state but travelling on... | |
| 19. EU states agree on aviation security measures | September 28, 2006 |
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EU member states have agreed to ban airline passengers from carrying large quantities of liquid onto aeroplanes in hand luggage in a response to recent security threats.... | |
| 20. Member states step up aviation-security talks | August 31, 2006 |
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EU member states have begun debating whether to ban liquids and laptops on board airlines, increase screening of passengers and introduce a system of profiling passengers... | |
