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Laws & RegulationsEastern Region Becomes Home to Regional Aviation Safety Group
The Regional Aviation Safety Group will be working out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Region, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA,) the country’s aviation regulator, announced lately.
The move came after King Salman approved a joint proposal, by the Arab Civil Aviation Commission’s Executive Council and the Second Meeting of the Heads of Civil Aviation Authorities in the Middle East, to form a regional aviation safety group with the Kingdom as its headquarters.
Captain Abdulhakim Al-Badr, Deputy to the President of GACA for Security, Safety, and Air Transport, said that the move signifies the Kingdom’s leadership in the industry.
He added that the group’s presence in the Kingdom will facilitate the exchange of expertise, especially at a time when the region’s burgeoning aviation industry needs every bit of support to meet the technical, procedural, and manpower requirements of rigorous screening and inspection, so as to ensure safety.
Badr stressed that the group will recruit qualified professionals for the service of government agencies in the region, as opposed to similar services offered by the private sector, adding that the move is part of the Kingdom’s efforts, on both the regional and global levels, to ensure safe flying.
He said that the group’s choice of the Eastern Region to set up shop comes out of its strategy to spread its activities among the Kingdom’s major regions.
Saudi Arabia is keen to ensure safer national, regional, and international air spaces. The group will provide support to the region’s countries as they uprate their capabilities and train their personnel to keep up with the booming civil aviation industry, which requires highly trained professionals who can enforce the highest safety standards and best practices.
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