Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA) has published data showing the country's air travel as having "increased significantly in 2022". The 224 million passengers who travelled to and from UK airports took the kingdom to 75% of 2019 levels and amounted to a...
Latvia's airBaltic has added a Google Pay option for its flight booking system in what it said would make payment "a seamless process". "We are happy to go one step further, by adapting to the payment practices of passengers. Our goal is to provide customers with the...
UK low-cost carrier easyJet on February 22 marked carrying 70 million passengers in and out of Belfast International Airport. The Brennan family from Belfast were given free easyJet return flights in a surprise award after one of the group became that 70 millionth...
Airlines and cargo carriers are continuing to contribute to relief work being carried out in earthquake-stricken regions of Turkey and Syria. UPS said a Boeing 767 is taking off every night from the UPS Air Hub at Cologne Bonn airport to lift "urgently needed goods to...
London Luton Airport authorities said a February 14 protest by environmentalists was "not causing any disruption" at the hub's main terminal. The so-called "love in action" demonstration by Extinction Rebellion was being staged at the airport's private jet terminal,...
The aviation industry is stepping forward with financial assistance for victims and for rescue and relief operations after deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The February 6 and 7 earthquakes had killed almost 20,000 people at time of writing, a toll that is...
New Zealands’s Taupo Airport recently opened its new Terminal for commercial operations. The new terminal is almost three times larger than the older version designed by Shelter Architects and built locally by Watts Construction. The new terminal project costs $6.13...
REGENT has secured a strategic investment from Japan Airlines (JAL) Innovation Fund for incorporating seagliders into JAL’s global network. With this investment, REGENT has raised over $45 million to date. Billy Thalheimer, co-founder and CEO of REGENT said: “This...
Airframe manufacturer Boeing has announced a partnership with the Kelly Heritage Foundation, an education organisation affiliated with Port San Antonio in Texas. The US $2.3 million investment by Boeing will "expand STEM [science, technology, engineering, and...
The US's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked Boeing to lead the development and test-flying of a "full-scale transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) demonstrator airplane". The belief is that the technologies will "inform future designs and could...
Eviation Aircraft has achieved an important milestone with the successful completion of the first flight of Alice – its zero-emission electric aircraft. The aircraft took off from Grant County International Airport (MWH), and hovered for eight minutes at an altitude...
ITP Aero has partnered with Zeleros to help develop a zero-emission propulsion system for hyperloop, a new means of transport consisting of capsules levitating at high speeds inside a network of low-pressure tubes. Zeleros is a Spanish deep-tech company developing the...