Sentences with phrase «as global aviation»

Qantas Group chief executive Alan Joyce, who was one of the passengers on the inaugural flight, described it as a major milestone for Australia as well as global aviation.

«The increasing number of flights worldwide requires that we as a global aviation community acquire, share and analyze safety data so that we have more data points to predict and mitigate risk,» said Randy Babbitt, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

For example, farming accounts for almost 30 per cent of the globe's greenhouse gas emissions either directly (for example, rice production has the same emission levels as the global aviation industry) or indirectly through deforestation.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters)- The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said Monday it was requiring six Middle Eastern carriers to participate in an enhanced cargo screening program as part of an effort to raise global aviation security.

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said Monday it was requiring six Middle Eastern carriers to participate in an enhanced cargo screening program as part of an effort to raise global aviation security.

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said on Monday it will require six Middle Eastern carriers to undergo enhanced cargo screening as part of an effort to raise global aviation security.

The Wall Street Bourse, on display Fri., Oct. 21 and Sat., Oct. 22, will showcase global and domestic bank notes along with stock and bond certificates in a wide array of topics and subjects such as railroads, mining, autos, aviation, Internet and technology, telecommunications and navigation.

Previous research has shown that the natural lights of the Northern Lights — also known as or Aurora Borealis — interfere with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals which are heavily relied upon in the transport and civil aviation industries.

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

CAPSCA is an ICAO global program to improve preparedness planning and response to public health events that affect the aviation sector, such as an influenza pandemic or a nuclear power - plant accident.

The government's new aviation strategy should set out an ambitious plan for improving international connectivity from UK airports as part of its vision for a new global Britain, according to MAG.

Star Alliance has welcomed Air India as a full member of its global family of airlines, opening the national carrier's strong domestic network in the fifth largest aviation market to Star Alliance customers worldwide.

«Our continued growth of passengers and destinations clearly highlights the role we play in UK aviation and as the global entry and exit point of the Northern Powerhouse.

We are pleased to have secured his return and look forward to supporting him and his team as they begin the important job of establishing Edinburgh Airport as a more dynamic, competitive player in the global aviation industry.

For them, as for many airlines seeking to stay competitive in global aviation, premium economy as a concept is proving to be just too persuasive to ignore.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) heralded the agreement in October, of a new global market - based measure to control carbon emissions from international aviation, as an «historic agreement».

Aviation - cirrus (aviation - smog, really) is still generally being underestimated as a contributor to both global / regional warming and global / regional dimming, to more rain and more drought.

Climate activists are urging a carbon tax on shipping and aviation not only to spur reductions in climate pollution but as a revenue source to finance global climate mitigation.

It also notes that policy - makers have largely failed to take the tourism industry's emissions seriously on the global stage — international aviation, for instance, is currently excluded from the Paris climate agreement, and the only UN-backed aviation emissions standards on the books are weak as hell.

As it currently stands however, ICAO's proposal is far from being ambitious and may result in a global greenwashing agreement sponsored by the aviation industry.

Read Burt Rutan on global warming as a thinking aviation innovator with a clear mind.

As civil aviation continues to grow at around 5 % each year, such improvements are unlikely to keep carbon emissions from global air travel from increasing.

The US Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged the role of aviation emissions in causing global warming, and said it will develop rules in line with ICAO regulation to reduce emissions from the industry, as it has done for vehicles and power plants.

Potentially, contributors to such a facility could include governments for whom domestic mitigation action might be more costly than investment through the global market, or sectors where the technology is not yet fully available to enable them to take effective large scale mitigation action — such as the aviation industry.

Yet the growth in oil demand from trucks has outpaced all other sectors — including passenger cars, aviation, industry and petrochemical feedstocks — since 2000 and contributed 40 % to global oil demand growth, a similar contribution as cars.

It assessed the impacts of civil aviation in terms of climate change and global air quality as well as looking at the effect of technology options for the future fleet.

Among the first was Dentons, one of the largest law firms in the country as well as a global firm with a long - established aviation law department.

Sole City aviation finance partner Rob Murphy, the global head of asset finance and co-head of the aviation sector group, is retiring at the end of the year to join CDB Aviation Lease Finance — the aircraft leasing unit of China Development Bank — as general counsel and chief operating officer.

In addition to the accolades Trevor has received for his competition work generally, Trevor repeatedly has been identified by Euromoney as one of the top 20 aviation lawyers in the world and ranked # 1 in Belgium in Global Competition Review's International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers.

Depending on the programmes the company supports, this often includes considering rather weighty (and sometimes inherently unknowable) political and national security - related questions such as: how long and in what numbers will US and NATO forces be deployed in Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan; what level of ballistic missile defences might the US and its allies procure in order to address the threat from North Korea; how might an aviation - related terrorism incident or global recession affect the production rate of Boeing or Airbus airplanes; or, what level of future defence spending might be agreed between the US Congress and the Trump Administration?

In his current role as general counsel at CAE, the global leader in the delivery of training for the civil aviation, defence and security, and healthcare markets, Mark Hounsell holds nearly two decades of in - house legal experience.

«Despite a rise in volume in aviation insurance business in the country, the overall premia have fallen as the rates have remained soft in the global markets.