Britain's Rolls-Royce has effectively moved the home for its best-known jet engine designs to Germany to avoid regulatory delays or sales disruption after Britain's EU exit. Rolls said relocating the design approval process was a purely technical move and would not involve transferring jobs. Officials say the move will make it easier for Rolls to continue to sell engines outside Europe following Brexit, which would otherwise have depended on new regulatory deals being struck between Britain and the nations of many airlines. Aircraft safety and the design approvals process are among issues that Britain and the EU have yet to settle. EASA said in a filing that it had now formally approved the request. "Rolls-Royce has become in terms of conception a German organisation, so belonging to the EU," <br/>
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Ukraine’s minister of infrastructure, Volodymyr Omelyan, has identified the development of regional airports, the attraction of LCCs, and a fair and transparent market for air services as key directions for aviation reform in Ukraine. Omelyan said the strategic goal is to transport Ukraine into an international hub connecting Europe and Asia. He identified projects including the development of a multimodal, international transport hub at Bila Tserkva airport and the reconstruction of Gostomel airfield as holding potential interest to foreign investors. However. it is expected that Ukraine will have a job to try to establish a Europe-Asia hub in competition with the new Istanbul Airport and established gateways in the Gulf. The smaller airports could not undertake such a function and the eastern part of the country is still embroiled in a war. <br/>
The US has agreed to let commercial flights use airspace controlled by its forces in Japan, meaning the capacity of one of Tokyo's main airports will get a boost in time for the 2020 Olympics, the govt said Wednesday. The extra capacity will help prime minister Shinzo Abe's govt make tourism a pillar of growth and to boost arrivals by 28% from last year, to 40m by 2020. The US and Japan reached the agreement on opening up the airspace Tuesday. The agreement allows commercial flights landing at Haneda to enter US forces-controlled airspace above parts of Tokyo and the vicinity, making it possible to raise the number of international flights it can handle by 65%, to 99,000 a year, a Transport Ministry official said. The agreement will go into effect before Tokyo hosts the summer Olympic Games in 2020. <br/>