Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Queenstown Airport has selected Elenium to provide new bag drop and kiosk facilities for passengers as a part of its terminal upgrade programme. Elenium claims that the technology designs, develops and manufactures self-service and automation technologies for the...
Up to 44,500 new aircraft could be delivered globally over the next two decades in deals worth US $2.9tn, according to industry watchers at Cirium. The projected number of new aircraft suggests the sector's recovery from the impact of coronavirus lockdowns is on...
Vertical Aerospace has secured a pre-delivery payment for the reservation of aircraft delivery slots from leading Japanese trading and investment conglomerate, Marubeni. Marubeni has reserved aircraft delivery slots for 25 out of its up to 200 VX4 conditional...
Flyadeal has renewed its agreement with Navitaire for the Navitaire Airline Platform, including the New Skies digital retailing system, to help facilitate its growth plans and digital transformation. Con Korfiatis, CEO flyadeal said: “Our growth plans rely on...
Etihad Airways has signed contrail management contract with SATAVIA to enable contrail prevention across daily flight schedules thereby accelerating the airline’s progress towards climate neutral operations. The partnership will build on a previous proof-of-concept...
Vistara has partnered with WorldTicket to provide customers with connections to Germany's Deutsche Bahn train network. The interline agreement will allow the airline to provide multimodal itineraries to its customers. The customers will be able to book air and rail...
IndiGo has introduced sensor technology on the aircraft for faster and accurate scanning of life vests. Manual inspection of vests takes 90-120 minutes depending on the aircraft type, but with the introduction of sensor tech the time is cut down to 3-4 minutes per...
Buenos Aires was the worst-ranked airport for lost and delayed luggage around Christmas, according to analysis by sostravel.com, an online and app-based service for travel technologies. Reports of lost or late-arriving luggage were up 101% annually for the period...
Manufacturer ZeroAvia has claimed a "giant step forward" for "zero-emission flight" with a six-minute test run of what it said is the largest aircraft to be powered by a hydrogen-electric engine The flight, using a 19-seat Dornier 228 testbed plane, took place at...
San Francisco-based aviation software company ATP is adding an array of features to its Flightdocs Operations platform. The "new suite" is to be unveiled as part of the new product showcase during the NBAA’s Schedulers and Dispatcher Conference in Nashville, starting...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched a website allowing the airline industry to share APIs, or application programming interfaces, code that enables two software programmes to communicate. The new IATA facility was developed by Rapid, a...
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said it has received "a new firm order" for 15 new E195-E2 aircraft from "an undisclosed customer". The company said the deal is worth US $1.17bn at list price and will be added to its 2022 backlog, which by August had reached...