Category: Travel

The Agency conducted a survey to obtain actual data on the average mass of passengers and luggage on domestic, international, and intercontinental flights.  This follows a previous Pan-European study on the standard mass of passengers and baggage conducted by EASA in 2008, building on work started by the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The study aimed […]

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has published an NPA for consultation which aims to address the risk of a post-crash fire in the event of a survivable rotorcraft accident. NPA 2022-10 proposes to reduce the risk of a post-crash fire by requiring the installation of a crash-resistant fuel system (CRFS) for newly produced rotorcraft and, […]

COLOGNE/WASHINGTON D.C. November 16, 2022 – The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have launched a joint cooperation initiative to rethink aviation connectivity, publishing a White Paper proposal for the modernisation and harmonisation of the aviation data communication landscape by 2035. Airbus and Boeing, as aviation stakeholders, contributed to the […]

Yesterday, Patrick Ky and Jean-Marc Cluzeau met with Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and members of his team in Valenciennes, for the signature of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC). The MoC promotes cooperation and establishes a regular structured dialogue between the Agencies, enhancing the sharing of information, knowledge […]

EASA has issued its Research Agenda 2022-2024, which includes actions on safety and environmental protection, and additionally in the fields of field security, public health and economic intelligence. The EASA Research Agenda aims to:  •    support the development of new safety and security management concepts/methods/tools;  •    investigate safety, security and environmental threats;  •    support both […]

EASA published the Easy Access Rules for Continuing Airworthiness — Revision from December 2022. Revision from December 2022 includes: This revision is available in PDF format, as dynamic online publications (online format) and in XML (machine-readable format).  Note: This revision includes the correction of erroneous content in AMC1 145.A.30(d) (points 5 and 6 wrongly incorporated), […]

The following vacancy notices have been published on the Careers page of the EASA website: Reference: EASA/AD/2022/018 Title / Grade: Cybersecurity Administrator / Cybersecurity Manager (AD6) Organisational Directorate: Resources & Support Directorate Closing Date: 27/01/2023 at 23:55 CET Reference: EASA/AD/2022/019 Title / Grade: Lead Information Security Officer (AD8) Organisational Directorate: Executive Directorate Closing Date: 27/01/2023 at 23:55 CET Reference: […]

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has published a communication to aircraft operators which seeks to raise awareness of the changes introduced by Regulation (EU) 2018/1048 on Performance-Based Navigation (the ‘PBN IR’). This Regulation was adopted in 2018 to enhance aircraft operations in the single European sky through the use of PBN. New PBN routes […]

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published Guidelines on Initial Cabin Crew Training. The initial training is an introductory aviation training each trainee must undergo and successfully complete before being issued with the EU qualification document ‘Cabin Crew Attestation’.  The training programme is contained in the Appendix 1 to Annex V (Part-CC) of […]

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published the Easy Access Rules for Occurrence Reporting — Revision from December 2022. This Revision incorporates Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2034 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 as regards the common European risk classification scheme, and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2082 laying down the arrangements for the implementation […]