Last month the Air Line Pilots Association came out ahead on FAA reauthorization, largely achieving its goals for the five-year funding bill. Now ALPA, led by an activist president, is focused on ...

The simple answer is that there are already single-pilot flights, but not in the large-scale scheduled commercial sector. These are usually light jets flying short-to-medium haul in the private or ...

The director general of airline association IATA believes the debate over single-pilot operations in commercial aviation will continue for many years, with no certainty that such practices will ever ...

The A350F could be an early platform to test reduced flight crew operations scenarios. Credit: Airbus Concept A push to develop procedures and new flight deck functionality that supplant a pilot even ...

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has announced the suspension of its research into single-pilot flight operations, emphasising the aviation sector's commitment to safety. This decision ...

Pilots’ unions are putting their combined weight against single-pilot operations of commercial aircraft, calling concepts leaning more heavily on automation a “profit-driven scheme that poses a ...

An FAA waiver was recently granted to Matternet that allows the company to operate up to 20 aircraft with a single remote pilot. The waiver only covers operations at Matternet’s test site in Pittsburg ...

Airlines may be taking to the skies, but their profit margins haven’t. Many have failed to recoup their pandemic losses, while simultaneously struggling to cope with higher fuel prices. So predictably ...