LHT has signed a 10 year Total Component Support agreement with Sky Regional Airlines, covering its fleet of five Bombardier Q400s. This deal is significant as it is LHT’s first North American Q400 customer.
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
V AUSTRALIA IN 777 DRAMA AT LAX
V Australia has chartered an Air New Zealand Boeing 747 to ferry passengers home from LA after the airline’s Los Angeles-Sydney flight VA02 made an emergency aborted takeoff at LAX airport last night. One of the Boeing 777-300ER’s engines failed, with passengers...
BOEING LANDING GEAR OVERHAUL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE FOR 777-200LR, 777 FREIGHTER AND 777-300ER
Boeing has expanded its Landing Gear Overhaul and Exchange Program to cover the 777-200LR (Longer Range), 777 Freighter and 777-300ER (Extended Range) airplanes to provide more customers with greater service for landing gear support. Boeing’s Material Services...
CANJET AIRLINES CHOOSES DELTA TECHOPS FOR ENGINE MAINTENANCE CONTRACT
Delta Air Lines’ maintenance division, Delta TechOps, has finalized an exclusive five-year engine maintenance contract with Canadian charter operator, CanJet Airlines. The fixed price, time and materials (T&M) contract covers maintenance for CanJet’s CFM56-7B...
AJ WALTER AND LOUDOUN AVIATION LAUNCH NEW CORPORATE AIRCRAFT SPARES SUPPORT SERVICE
A J Walter Aviation is partnering with business jet dealer Loudoun Aviation to deliver spares support excellence to the corporate sector. Offering a range of 24/7 AOG, power-by-the-hour, pooling and daily service options, AJW is able to support corporate operators of...
RAMCO SYSTEMS LAUNCHES SAAS ERP FOR AVIATION MANUFACTURING
The global aviation maintenance and engineering and maintenance, repair & overhaul software provider Ramco Systems has launched its Software as a Service (SaaS) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) offering for the aviation, aerospace and defence industry. Since its...
P&W LAUNCHES PURESOLUTIONSM SERVICES
Pratt & Whitney has launched PureSolutionSM services, the company’s new flexible maintenance plan designed for its PurePower engine family. PureSolutionSM services offer MRO expertise from the PurePower engine’s OEM creator and design-responsible partners. It will...
GE AVIATION LAUNCHES CF6 TRUENGINETM PROGRAM NCA’S CF6 ENGINES ACHIEVE TRUENGINE STATUS
GE Aviation is launching the CF6 TRUEngineTM program, which expands the TRUEngine designation from CFM56 engines to GE’s engines beginning with CF6. As part of the launch, GE has awarded TRUEngine designation to Nippon Cargo Airlines’ (NCA) fleet of 43 CF6-80C2...
AIR CANADA INKS DEAL FOR GE’S MYENGINES
Air Canada has signed an agreement with GE Aviation for its myEnginesTM, part of the OnPoint Digital Solutions. myEngines consists of digital app suites that help customers better manage their engine fleets and improve productivity. Air Canada operates a fleet of...
DELTATECHOPS EXPANDS MAINTENANCE PARTNERSHIP WITH EVERGREEN AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES; COVERS COMPONENT MAINTENANCE FOR SKYMARK AIRLINES FLEET
Delta Air Lines’ maintenance division, Delta TechOps, has signed a five-year component maintenance and exchange agreement with Skymark Airlines to provide advance exchange power-by-the-hour (PBTH) services to Skymark’s fleet of 25 CFM56-7B powered Boeing 737NG...
MTU WINS €400 MILLION WORTH OF CONTRACTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER
In the first three months of this year, MTU’s Maintenance signed new contracts worth around €400 million. One of the largest awarded was by Atlas Air. The US carrier had started to send the CF6-50 and CF6-80 engines powering its Boeing 747 fleet to MTU Maintenance...
ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES SIGNS UP TO 777 CSP
Ethiopian Airlines has announced an agreement for Ethiopian Airlines to participate in the 777 Component Services Program (CSP), which significantly reduces the airline’s up-front investment in spare parts from a pool shared by participating 777 operators. Ethiopian...