Aviation Safety Experts See Risks in Sudden Return to the Air

^{The world’s airlines will be back in the skies “big time” later this year, and extra attention to safety will be required because of the months that flight crews and aircraft have spent on the ground because of the COVID-19 pandemic, aviation industry leaders said Wednesday during the opening session of the 8th annual Safety Forum, organized by Flight Safety Foundation, Eurocontrol and the European Regions Airline Association.}

^{The two-day-long virtual event will conclude Thursday.}

^{In the year since the pandemic began, “we’ve had a situation of  pilots who were not flying enough and controllers who were not controlling enough,” Gilberto López Meyer, International Air Transport Association (IATA) senior vice president, safety and flight operations, told the opening panel discussion.}

^{Eamonn Brennan, director general of Eurocontrol, added that more than half of the worldwide fleet of aircraft has been parked and a…}