Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Being a relatively new player in Asia-Pacific’s booming yet increasingly crowded aviation segment, technical advisory specialist Dragon Aviation Capital (DAC) says the influx of aircraft and engines into the region will provide plenty of growth opportunities which...
Vallair, the aircraft trading, leasing and specialist MRO organisation, has completed lease transactions for three Airbus A321 aircraft with Onur Air in Turkey. The first of these three aircraft (MSN 974), purchased from AerCap together with its engines, was delivered...
The Kayan Group, headed by founder Dr. Uday Nayak, has acquired aircraft leasing and management company, Plane Business, in its aim to provide end-to-end aircraft leasing and financings solutions to the market. Plane Business is a London-based specialist aircraft...
Summer 2013 will see talks begin between the EU and the United States on producing a free-trade agreement that would give birth to the largest free trade zone on the planet, significant enough to add 0.5% or €86bn to overall EU GDP and 0.4% or €65bn to the US economy...
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such...
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such...
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has placed a firm order with Airbus covering 34 A321s, 10 A321neo and 10 A330-300s. The aircraft are being purchased under a major fleet modernisation programme at the airline, with deliveries starting in 2013. The single aisle A321 aircraft...
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has been selected by Aviation Capital Group (ACG) to provide one B737-400SF 11 Pallet Configuration conversion. The speculative conversion is expected to be completed in mid-November 2012 at which time the freighter will be available...
We understand that there are some things you cannot leave to chance and the annual get together in Dublin is one of those things. For this reason we have already made sure that the core of finance and leasing are in attendance and there are more airlines than have...
It is mid-week and many of you will be getting air show fatigue by about now. For many getting to the show itself is very hard work indeed, it seems that unless you are flying, you are very lucky indeed to have a trouble free run of it seemingly from any direction....
On March 13, Fenech & Fenech Advocates seized an A320-211 from a Lufthansa Technik workshop on the island of Malta for non payment of dues related to the lease of the aircraft. Although the two parties have since negotiated a settlement and the aircraft returned to...
Varig Logistics has taken delivery of its second Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) 737-400SF 11 Pallet Configuration Passenger to Freighter Conversion. The aircraft, a high gross weight B737-400 (MSN 25595) was built in 1992 and underwent passenger to freighter modi-...