Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
MAEL completes commissioning testing at new Birmingham facility Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has completed the commissioning testing for aircraft maintenance at its new 110,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art maintenance facility at Birmingham Airport in the UK. This...
Volga-Dnepr Technics has been awarded a contract to provide maintenance services in Moscow for Aeroflot-Russian Airlines’ Boeing 737NG (Next Generation) aircraft fleet. The agreement for maintenance at the city’s Sheremetyevo Airport also includes a provision for...
Caribbean Airlines has signed a second power-by-the-hour contract with AJW Aviation to support its fleet of fifteen B737NGs. This new contract complements the existing five year PBH support that AJW currently provides for the airline’s two B767 aircraft, signed in...
Alaska Airlines is planning to retrofit split winglets on 111 of its 737s, saving an estimated 58,000 gallons of fuel per aircraft every year.
Commsoft has signed a new three-year contract for 15 concurrent users with NextJet, one of Sweden’s largest domestic airlines. To support its fleet of 10 SAAB 340 aircraft, Next Jet plans to migrate to the latest AMP version of OASES sometime during 2014 and will be...
ST Aerospace and Jetstar Asia have announced a three-year line maintenance contract for Jetstar Asia's existing and future fleet of A320 aircraft. "We are honoured to have Jetstar Asia entrust their aircraft line maintenance activities to ST Aerospace. Since 2004, the...
AJW Aviation has been awarded the ISO18001 for Health & Safety Management Systems and ISO14001 certification for Environmental Management Systems by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) These certifications come less than a year after the company’s...
British Airways has become the first airline in the world to gain European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Part 147, Part M and Part 145 approvals for both the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A380. Part M approval signifies that British Airways Engineering has the required...
Gulf Carrier is poised to take a stake in Air India’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) unit, which has been hived off as a separate unit. Founded in 2005, Gulf Carrier is a company offering telecommunication solutions and services to consumers and enterprise...
AJW Technique and Honeywell International have signed an Authorized Service Center Agreement and a Purchase Parts Agreement structured around a five year term. This will allow the new state-of-the-art AJW Group facility in Montreal, Canada to undertake the...
Victory Park Capital (VPC) has completed the sale of its portfolio company, Ascent Aviation Services Corp to LongueVue Capital Partners II, a New Orleans-based private equity firm. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. VPC has held a stake in Ascent since...
ST Aerospace’s wholly owned subsidiary, ST Aerospace Engines Pte Ltd (STA Engines), has agreed to inject its pro rata share of an additional US$2.81m (S$3.58m) into the capital of its 50%-jointly controlled company, Total Engines Asset Management Pte Ltd (TEAM). This...