GE Aviation is privileged to power the Qantas 787-9 fleet with the GEnx engine and especially the historic flight from Perth to London. On Saturday evening, March 24, around 236 passengers took part in a major milestone in the aviation industry when QF9, taxied down...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Boeing delivers first 787-10 Dreamliner to Singapore Airlines
Singapore Airlines has taken delivery of the first 787-10 aircraft. About 3,000 people marked the milestone at Boeing's facility in North Charleston, South Carolina where the latest 787 model is manufactured. The 787-10 features a longer fuselage than other...
China Eastern and GE Aviation sign comprehensive digital service agreement
China Eastern Airlines (CEA) and GE Aviation reached agreement to provide a comprehensive digital analytics solution for the CEA fleet of more than 700 aircraft over the next three years. GE Aviation and CEA started their digital collaboration in 2013. As part...
Maureva signs two new airline clients for its accountancy solution
Maureva has signed Air Belgium and the Japanese carrier Star Flyer as new clients of its EDGAR Passenger Revenue Accounting Solution and Managed Services. Headquartered in the municipality of Mont-Saint-Guibert, Air Belgium is a new carrier initially operating...
Rolls-Royce breaks ground on a new test bed in Derby
Rolls-Royce has welcomed Business Secretary, Greg Clark to Derby to celebrate the start of work on its new testbed facility. The plans for the testbed were announced in June 2017 as part of a wider £150m investment in UK aerospace facilities. The new testbed, which is...
MTU Power: New brand for gas turbine business
MTU Aero Engines has launched a new brand to improve transparency in services for gas turbine customers, called MTU Power, which consolidates the existing gas turbine engineering, manufacturing and aftermarket expertise and services from the business units Aero...
Maureva signs commercial agreement with Hi-Fly Marketing
Maureva has chosen Hi-Fly Marketing, the South African company specialising in technical services in the African aviation industry, as its commercial representative for its ALEXIS – Flight Scheduling & Crew Management solution for the Sub-Saharan African...
Philippine Airlines chooses Amadeus technology to power 5-star ambitions
Philippine Airlines has signed a landmark agreement with Amadeus to deliver an extensive transformation of the airline’s core technology systems. Philippine Airlines will adopt the full Amadeus Altéa Suite, a complete Passenger Service System that aims to...
Another IndiGo A320 neo grounded over P&W engine concerns
IndiGo grounded another A320 neo aircraft yesterday following an incident with its Pratt & Whitney. The aircraft on the Bengaluru-New Delhi morning flight was understood to have been grounded after metal chip particles were detected in the jet's engine...
Sections for first All Nippon Airways A380 arrive in Toulouse
The main sections of the first A380 for Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) have arrived at the Airbus final assembly line in Toulouse via a special convoy, with six subassemblies - the nose, central and aft fuselage sections, the tailplane, and the two wings. ANA...
HAECO ITM signs agreement with ASL Airlines for inventory technical management support
HAECO ITM has reached an agreement with ASL Airlines to provide inventory technical management support for the company’s three Airbus A330-300 passenger-to-freighter (PTF) aircraft operating out of Hong Kong. The scope of the agreement includes access to HAECO...
GE9X engine goes airborne
The GE9XTM engine lifted off on March 13 under wing of GE Aviation's 747 flying testbed in Victorville, California, for its first flight test. The engine that will power Boeing's new 777X aircraft took to the air around 10:40 a.m. Pacific standard time and flew...