International Civil Aviation Day

  The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence and automation into flight operations presents significant safety risks due to global disparities in operational control standards and the erosion of human oversight. This paper calls for ICAO-led harmonization of dispatcher qualifications , AI governance , and human-centric frameworks to ensure that automation enhances—rather than replaces—the critical judgment and accountability of certified Flight Dispatchers worldwide. Background information and possible updates a) note IFALDA’s observations regarding the ICAO's flight dispatcher provisions under Annex 6, Part I; b ) IFALDA feels AI encourages the need to develop enhanced Annex 6 SARPs providing definitive guidance on operational control personnel qualifications and standardized control tiers; c) this would require revising or developing new USOAP Protocol Questions to assess State implementation of relevant Annex 1 and Annex 6 dispatcher provisions; d) this would require ...

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is seeing rapid advancements and increasing adoption across many industries, including aviation, with applications ranging from predictive maintenance to safety oversight, air traffic management and operational decision support. These technologies offer transformative potential but also raise new challenges relating to oversight and accountability, ethics and equality of access, and consistent safety outcomes and automation dependency, particularly when AI operates on probabilistic or opaque logic. This paper proposes that ICAO take a leading role in studying, standardising and adapting the safety applications of artificial intelligence in aviation. Action: The Assembly is invited to request the ICAO Council to: a) establish a structured collaboration platform with UN bodies, standards organizations, industry, and academia to identify aviation-specific risks, use cases, and ethical concerns; b) conduct a global scoping study on current AI applications...

  The aviation industry must embrace innovative approaches to business operations and strategies to meet its economic, operational and environmental goals. To develop a shared vision of the innovations required by the industry, the Hermes Air Transport Organisation solicited briefs from associations representing a cross-section of the aviation industry. These briefs provide the basis for a broad set of recommendations on innovating in the aviation industry. 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The aviation industry must embrace innovative approaches to business operations and strategies to meet its economic, operational and environmental goals. To develop a shared vision of the innovations required by the industry, the Hermes Air Transport Organisation solicited briefs from associations representing a cross-section of the aviation industry. These briefs provide the basis for a broad set of recommendations on innovating in the aviation industry, as presented below: 2. RECOMMENDATION 1 : ADOPT A C...