Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Texas-based travel software business Sabre has announced a new multi-year agreement with Chilean budget carrier SKY Airline The deal will see the airline "expand the content it distributes through the Sabre GDS and migrate to SabreSonic passenger service system...
Edinburgh Airport's day-before bag drop facility has been expanded with the additions of Irish carrier Ryanair, Europe's biggest airline, and the International Airlines Group-owned British Airways. The airlines follow UK-based budget operators easyJet and Jet2 in...
Lufthansa Group is bringing in a voluntary biometric service for its HON Circle Members and Senators at Berlin Brandenburg and will later offer access via facial recognition to the Lufthansa Lounge at the airport. Passengers under the categories with Lufthansa, SWISS,...
The outgoing president of the Irish Airline Pilots' Association said a third terminal is needed at Dublin Airport. Evan Cullen, who will be succeeded in mid-May by fellow Aer Lingus pilot Mark Tighe, a former head of the association, told the Irish Independent...
Swissport has signed a deal to provide passenger services and ramp handling in Sofia for three Lufthansa Group airlines. The deal covers Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines operations at Sofia International Airport where Swissport has since...
Loganair has launched its routes to London Heathrow from Derry, Dundee, Orkney and Shetland. Flights from Derry, the Irish city's first to Heathrow, were switched from London Stansted on May 6, three days before the Dundee route was moved from London City Airport....
Edinburgh Airport is to host the only direct route between China and the UK region of Scotland when Hainan Airlines operates its first summer flight from Beijing on June 26. The twice-weekly flights are to run until October 8, the airport announced, with the route...
Air New Zealand’s fourth and final B777 will soon resume service after spending 850 days in Mojave Desert storage. The aircraft will undergo maintenance at Air New Zealand’s hangar and resume operations on the San Francisco route later this week. “The return of all...
CFM International has announced the signing with Ryanar of signed a letter of agreement for the purchase of 150 LEAP-1B engines. The engines are to power the 150 Boeing MAX aircraft the Irish carrier said it would buy from Boeing in a deal announced on May 9....
Wisk Aero and Japan Airlines (JAL) are pairing up in an effort to introduce Wisk’s "self-flying, all-electric air taxi services" to the East Asian country. "Additionally, Wisk and JAL Engineering (JALEC), will work closely together to develop plans for the maintenance...
Belfast City Airport's first Emerald Airlines flights to Jersey have taken off. The route to the Channel Islands takes the Emerald to 13 British destinations from Belfast City, with flights to Newcastle and the Isle of Man having started in early May. “Coupled with...
Aer Lingus is eyeing increased terminal capacity at its main hub Dublin Airport on the backdrop of the recent opening up of the new North Runway at Dublin Airport. Lynn Embleton, CEO, Aer Lingus expressed his interest in increasing capacity at Dublin Airport to...