AAR delivered the 500th aircraft to long-time customer Alaska Airlines. For 12 years, AAR has performed aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), including heavy checks and drop-ins, component repair and management, on Alaska’s fleet of classic Boeing 737s and...

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the aviation leasing and financing arm of General Electric, has announced a firm order for 60 A320neo Family aircraft including the A321neo at the 51st International Paris Air Show. GECAS has selected CFM’s LEAP-X engine for all...

Embraer announced today at the 51st International Paris Air Show an agreement with United Airlines to add additional E175 jets to the United Express fleet. The agreement consists of ten firm orders, which will be included in Embraer’s 2015 second-quarter backlog....

Embraer and SkyWest have announced today at the 51st International Paris Air Show, a firm order for eight E175 jets. The aircraft will be flown by SkyWest Airlines under a Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Alaska Airlines. The value of the contract, which will be...

Pratt & Whitney and Azul have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a Fleet Management Program supporting off-wing maintenance for 30 firm Embraer E195-E2 jets plus options for 20 aircraft, powered by PurePower engines. The PurePower PW1900G engine is the...

Airbus and Aerolineas Argentinas have signed a strategic agreement to establish the first Airbus maintenance training collaboration in South America at the airline’s facilities in Buenos Aires. The venture will deliver maintenance and engineering training services for...

Colombian based low-cost airline VivaColombia, has extended its contract with AJW Aviation for the provision of component power-by-the-hour support for a fleet of A320s that is anticipated to grow to ten aircraft by the end of 2015. The first true low-cost airline in...

Thomas Global Systems, the avionic display systems technology provider, has achieved new EASA Part 145 approval at its facility in Irvine, California.  This follows the Company’s FAA Part-145 approval which was granted last year just after the facility opened. Chief...

Avtrade is expanding the frontiers of aircraft component support and fortifying growth in the Americas with new Canada based inventory. Based at Canada’s largest and busiest airport, Toronto Pearson, Avtrade’s new warehouse capabilities stock comprehensive TCCA...

John Rogers has recently been promoted to the position of Senior Vice President of Sales for the new Barfield-AMG sales organization. This department forms part of the AFI KLM E&M sales platform in the Americas, which also includes the two AFI KLM E&M Sales...

Since Barfield's acquisition in July 2014, the two US subsidiaries of AFI KLM E&M specializing in component repair and overhaul - Barfield and its sister company AMG - have been working on strengthening their synergies. The first step of a common organization...

NORDAM and GE Capital Aviation Services Asset Management Services (GECAS AMS), the recertified commercial aircraft components solution of GECAS, announced today that their partnership to provide airline customers with flight control systems begins July 1. The program...