Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Lufthansa Technik this week lifted the shutters on what it said is "a new and much larger repair station" in Ireland. The 3500-square-metre "state-of-the-art facility" in Celbridge near the outskirts of capital Dublin comes with ten engine bays, twice the previous...
PTS Aviation recently completed the sale of one CFM56-7B engine with a lease attached to Aerovista FZC, an aviation asset manager based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Commentating on the transaction, Yuriy Tokarev, Vice-President of Asset Management at Aerovista,...
India-based HCLTech has signed a deal to "digitally transform" Swiss aircraft repair specialists SR Technics' operations. HCLTech is to implement what a "new greenfield SAP S/4HANA environment hosted on Microsoft Azure using RISE with SAP" - work it says will allow SR...
Sanad Group has signed a preliminary agreement with Indonesia’s GMF to set up a new maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) centre for aircraft engines. Prior to that, the two companies will collaborate to build MRO capabilities dedicated to CFM engines at GMF’s...
IndiGo recently inaugurated its second maintenance, repair and, overhaul (MRO) facility at India’s Kempegowda International Airport (Bengaluru). The 13,000-sqm hangar is built on five acres of land and is the second largest maintenance facility at the Bengaluru...
Vilnius-based FL Technics Engine Services has said that it has been given US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for the provision of aircraft engine repair and maintenance services in Kaunas, Lithuania. FL Technics Engine Services said the go-ahead was "an...
Menzies Aviation recently won a contract from Wizz Air Abu Dhabi to provide a range of ground services at Kuwait International Airport. This is the first contract with the airline outside of Europe. As part of the new agreement, Menzies will deliver ramp, passenger,...
Germany-based tourism conglomerate TUI Group and Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer this week signed a deal to give TUI's airline division access to Embraer's pool programme of repair services and component exchanges. The contract means TUI's fleet of Embraer...
Iberia Maintenance (IM) this week marked the 30-year anniversary of its first c-check on an Airbus A320. Since then the maintenance division of the International Airlines Group (IAG)-owned Iberia has grown to be a key European hub for servicing not only IAG's fleet of...
Silk Way West Airlines has selected GE Aerospace total of 16 GE9X and GE90 engines to power its new fleet of long-haul Boeing aircraft. The airline claims that these new engines are the world’s most powerful models and will contribute to its sustainability goals by...
GKN Aerospace is planning to relocate its North America additive manufacturing (AM) center of excellence to the Lone Star Commerce Center in Fort Worth, Texas with a 100,000-square-foot facility. The new facility will initially house research and development of laser...
Lufthansa Airline has signed EPCOR to provide the APS5000 Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) for its first Boeing 787-9 aircraft. EPCOR will also handle all warranty repairs on the APS5000s. Lufthansa took delivery of its first Dreamliner in August 2022, with four more to...