Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) and Strata Manufacturing (Strata), Mubadala Aerospace’s advanced composite aerostructures facility in Al Ain, agreed to establish Strata as a composite aerostructures supplier to Boeing. The agreement also defines a strategic roadmap...
Boeing and Mubadala Aerospace, a business unit of the Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Development Company, a business development and investment vehicle of the Abu Dhabi government, today announced agreements to advance the commercial and military aviation industry in the...
SR Technics and Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), both part of Mubadala Aerospace’s global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) network, have signed a contract with Airbus for the implementation of the Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) service at the Dubai...
All Nippon Airways has confirmed that as one of its new Boeing 787s approached Okayama airport on Sunday morning, an error message showed that the plane's landing gear had not properly deployed, forcing the pilots to try a second approach using manually lowered...
Leading French airline, XL Airways France, has awarded a five year contract to A J Walter Aviation to provide power-by-the-hour support to the XL Airways France B737NG aircraft fleet. This is AJW’s first PBH contract in the French aviation market and its first at...
Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico have agreed to expand their existing MRO agreement, and will invest equal shares to establish a new facility in Mexico, which is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2013.
TAM MRO has stated that it expects to grow by an average of 20% a year through 2016. In order to meet this exceptional figure the MRO plans to search for strategic partners.
Boeing has opened a new service centre in Beijing to provide enhanced product support to China‘s growing commercial aviation industry. “We are bringing Boeing’s world-class airplane services and support closer to our China customers, providing them a competitive edge...
A J Walter Aviation has identified a new business niche for development – corporate and business aircraft spares support. In partnership with its business aircraft sales and acquisition broker, Loudoun Aviation, AJW has extended its commercial spare parts and power by...
American Airlines is sending four 757s aircraft to Timco Aviation in North Carolina as a short-term measure. In a statement, the airline said: “In the case of the Boeing 757 fleet, a short-term solution was required to address heavy maintenance checks that were needed...
A fire in the cockpit of a Jetstar Airbus A330 in 2009 was caused by a production fault with the electrical connection to the windshield heating system, which the Australian Transport Safety Bureau inquiry concluded it was related to the use of a polysulfide sealant...
Alaska Airlines has reached an agreement with the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) union on a new five-year contract with the airline’s 626 aircraft maintenance mechanics and related employees. The deal with must be ratified by members in a ballot...