Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
MTU Maintenance has signed a twelve-year GE90-115B maintenance contract with United Airlines. The fly-by-hour contract covers the maintenance, repair and overhaul of 49 engines powering the airline’s 777-300ER fleet and includes MTU proprietary repairs as well as...
MTU Maintenance has launched its redefined services portfolio MTUPlus Intelligent Solutions. The portfolio has been conceived to fulfil the exact and specific needs of operators, who increasingly require tailor-made solutions across the lifecycle in order to control...
AeroBase Group, an aircraft and defense part distributor located in the Melbourne, Australia area has recently received a prestigious certification, the AS9120 Rev B. This certification is based on a standard developed by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and...
The shop visits for two XL Airways CF6-80E1 engines will be handled one after the other by teams at Amsterdam in the first quarter of 2019. During this period, the A330-303 will be equipped with a replacement powerplant provided by AFI KLM E&M. For the carrier,...
Aircraft maintenance company MESA has started construction of its new hangar project at Beja Airport, Portugal. The work, which has already begun, is expected to last around 18-months, with the start of hangar activity scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2020....
Trenchard Aviation Group, which provides aircraft cabin repair, maintenance and overhaul services, has renewed its long-term contract to provide aircraft cabin materials management services to Virgin Atlantic. This comprehensive, wide-ranging contract will be...
On 9 January this year, AFI KLM E&M was awarded Supplemental Type Certificates (STC) certification authorising AerCap’s three 777s to resume operations. AFI KLM E&M had reconfigured and retrofitted the cabins with Zodiac Aerospace’s RAVE IFE system – a world...
Sabena technics has acquired the assets of a new company New EAS – now known as Sabena technics PGF – based in Perpignan-Rivesaltes, France, which has three hangars able to accommodate a widebody aircraft and up to five narrowbody aircraft for civil and military base...
AFI KLM E&M subsidiary has signed a line maintenance contract with BA CityFlyer on its Embraer fleet that will commence at Glasgow from April 2019. Wayne Easlea, Operations Director at KLM UK Engineering Limited commented: “We are delighted that BA CityFlyer have...
S7 Technics has commenced work under a five-year maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) contract signed with Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana. Russia’s leading aircraft maintenance service provider won the open tender for the contract in the summer of 2018. Under...
Lufthansa Technik sales revenues climbed by more than €500 million, surging from €5.404 billion to €5.918 billion, an increase of 9.5% above the previous year’s total. The company generated adjusted EBIT of €425 million (previous year: €415 million), an increase of...
Lufthansa Technik has set up AVIATION DataHub, an independent platform for all data generated by aviation. With this decision, Lufthansa Technik has taken an important step in the digitalization of the maintenance, repair and overhaul business (MRO) and the...