Pilots and members of the aviation community use a range of shorthand and abbreviations to reference everything from take-off delays to security threats. Anyone who has taken a long-haul flight might ...

Delays to the Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 programme lie behind the initial restriction of extended twin-engine operations (ETOPS) for the Airbus A330-900. While approval for 330min ETOPS is being sought ...

Airbus is aiming to certificate the A350 XWB with 350min extended twin-engined operations (ETOPS) capability upon the type's entry into service in 2013, following this year's changes to ETOPS ...

Passengers on United’s Flight 1175 from San Francisco to Honolulu were understandably concerned this week as one of the 777’s two engines started to fall apart when the plane was still over the open ...

Electrically related in-flight fires may be a greater threat to the safety of long-range flights than engine failures. A new report on extended twin-engine operations (ETOPS) marks a major effort to ...

[Avionics Today 10-16-2014] The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has approved the new Airbus A350-900 for Extended-range Twin engine aircraft Operations (ETOPS) “Beyond 180 minutes” diversion ...

PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA) has won permission for its twin-engined A350 to fly more than six hours on one engine in the event of a breakdown, a key approval that allows its new ...