Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Agility, a supply chain services, infrastructure and innovation company, has finalized its acquisition of UK-based John Menzies and will combine the business with its National Aviation Services (NAS) business to create a new aviation services provider in 58 countries....
London City served 640,000 passengers across June and July and remains on course to reach the 3 million mark by the end of the year. August is also set to be busy, with over 300,000 passengers expected to travel as the airport closes in on one million passengers for...
Farnborough Airport has appointed contractors McLaughlin & Harvey and Gebler Tooth for the design and construction of its new £55m 175,000 sq. ft state of the art and sustainably designed hangar development, Domus III. Farnborough Airport has been working closely...
Sharjah Airport has reported a 142.74% rise in the passenger traffic during the first half of 2022, accounting for approximately six million travellers. This is substantial growth from 2,449 million travellers in H1 2021. The airport saw a considerable growth in the...
Heathrow Airport has reported an adjusted loss before tax of £321 million in the six months to end June 2022, as a result of higher passenger numbers. This is an improvement of prior-year period loss of £466 million. Revenue rose to £1.28bn up from £384 million a year...
A new survey by CV-Library, has found that almost half of all airport and airline workers (41.4%) are considering quitting the industry, mainly for pay and stress reasons. However, only 5% cited the current disruption at UK airports, 4.2% said it was due to angry and...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has expressed concern that a premature return to pre-pandemic slot use rules in the EU this winter risks continuing disruption to passengers. The European Commission has announced it intends to return to the...
A new European project, AMU-LED, is conducting demonstration flights of drones in urban environments across the UK, Netherlands and Spain. The first demonstration in Cranfield, UK, today (30 June), tests the feasibility of urban air mobility (UAM) management systems,...
The insolvent Frankfurt-Hahn has been sold and acquired by Swift Conjoy GmbH for an undisclosed sum. The Frankfurt-based company will continue flight operations and take on all employees which account for roughly 430 staff. The airport in the middle of the Hunsrück,...
Airbus and Linde, a global industrial gases and engineering company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work on the development of hydrogen infrastructure at airports worldwide. The agreement follows a cooperation agreement signed in Singapore in...
London’s Heathrow airport has increased its passenger forecast to 54.4 million passengers for 2022 in light of record summer demand. The new forecast is 67% of 2019 passenger numbers but well more than the 52.8million the airport predicted for 2022 in April. However,...
Aviator Airport Alliance, which provides aviation services at 15 airports across the Nordics and end-to-end capacity solutions for passenger and cargo airlines worldwide, has signed a new contract with a Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines. Aviator and Pegasus...