Southwest Airlines debuted its first plane with a secondary cockpit barrier on Friday, Aug. 29. The new safety feature ...

The government requires 1,500 hours of flight time before serving as first officer as an airliner. Some pilots and industry experts say the rule is excessive—and doesn’t actually make flying safer.

The crash of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad last month, which killed 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground, has reignited a long-standing debate in aviation circles: should commercial ...

The global commercial airline pilot training business continues to evolve as new entrants establish niches and long-time players change ownership. All are keen to help airlines address pilot shortages ...

Honeywell Aerospace engineers developed a "surface alert system" that gives pilots two aural warnings when they are 15 and 30 ...

Almost 25 years after 9/11, there are still major security risks on airplanes without secondary cockpit barriers. That’s the ...

A Spirit Airlines pilot received a stern reprimand from an air traffic controller Tuesday morning after the commercial flight ...

Most German pilots admit to napping while on duty. U.S. pilots aren't allowed to do the same under our regulations.

Specialization has long been important in the field of aviation, particularly when it comes to how aircraft are used. For example, although helicopters like the Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk are both ...

At least in the media echo chamber, fault for the crash of the Asiana flight 214 in San Francisco last weekend is already pretty clear: some kind of screw-up by the pilot who’d never flown a Boeing ...