Aviation Weekly News Roundup – 7 February 2025

Sofema Aviation Services shares the latest events in the Aviation business from around the world in our Aviation Weekly News Roundup:

> UK Civil Aviation Authority Expands Hydrogen Challenge The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced the extension and expansion of its Hydrogen Challenge with the launch of a second phase. Read more

> European Aviation Groups Demand Net-zero Policy Progress Airline, airport, aerospace, and air traffic control industry groups have called on European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to reboot its aviation strategy to emphasize economic growth and competitiveness alongside efforts to decarbonize. Read more

> How Is Turkey’s Booming Aviation Sector, with One Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Flights and Sixteen Million Passengers, Shaping the Future of Global Travel? Turkey has recently reported a significant surge in air traffic, with over 175,353 aircraft movements and more than 16 million passengers recorded in January 2025. Read more

> S Korea orders airports to install bird detection cameras after air crash Ministry of Land aims to install at least one camera in each of 15 domestic airports in the wake of deadly air crash in December. Read more

>Why I continue to fly, even though it scares me I’ll admit it: I get some agitation when I fly on a plane. Getting inside that metal tube is where I have rediscovered prayer more than any other place. I was once so afraid of flying that I forced my father to take a train with me down to Miami from New York City. Read more

>Jet2.com adds two new routes to Budapest from UK Jet2.com and Jet2Citybreaks have added two new routes to the Hungarian capital, Budapest, from the UK for Winter 25/26. Read more

> Cybersecurity Takes Step Forward In the past couple of decades, cybersecurity protecting aircraft and their systems has increasingly captured the attention of government leaders and stakeholders worldwide as global communications evolve, along with potential vulnerabilities. Read more

> Sofema is excited to share its next Exclusive Webinar: Implementing Information & Cyber Security into an EASA Part 145 SMS Join our interactive two-hour webinar, where we will discuss the critical steps in implementing cyber and information security measures into an EASA Part 145 Safety Management System (SMS). Read more