Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has received an order from Aeronaves TSM for a Boeing 737-400SF freighter conversion. Work on the latest aircraft will start in May 2023 at AEI's base Alabama. When finished, it will take the Mexican carrier to eight of the aircraft...
Southwest Airlines has announced a tie-up with Sabre Corporation to use the sales software system PRISM. Hosted in Google's cloud system, PRISM "automates, aggregates and analyses corporate sales information globally, providing companies with the decision science to...
Frontier Airlines is to launch routes between Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Guatemala City, Santo Domingo and San Diego as well as resume flights between Atlanta and Ontario and Salt Lake City. "Atlanta is one of Frontier’s fastest growing...
StandardAero has been re-approved to provide chemical plating support for the US Air Education and Training Command’s (AETC) T-38 Talon aircraft at Randolph Air Force Base. The company has been doing work for the US Air Force for 25 years. The T-38 Talon is a...
AAR has acquired aircraft maintenance and fleet management software business Trax USA. Miami-based Trax's software supports around 5,000 aircraft worldwide with a system for managing aircraft maintenance and fleet management, including materials planning and...
WestJet Cargo has been given the go-ahead by regulator Transport Canada for four 737-800 Boeing converted freighters. The approval means the carrier can, in partnership with GTA, "expeditiously implement three freighters into service, as dedicated aircraft that will...
IAG Cargo is opening new routes in the Americas on a British Airways-operated Boeing to carry "perishables, local produce and oil equipment". On March 20, the the cargo division of International Airlines Group announced it would be "operating a new route to Aruba...
Atlas Air Worldwide has now been acquired by an investor group led by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, which manages assets valued at about $548bn, and by investment affiliates of JF Lehman & Company and Hill City Capital. The completion of the previously...
Corporación América Airports has reported a 35.5% year-on-year increase in passenger traffic in February 2023, reaching 88.1% of February 2019 levels. The group, which runs 53 airports in six countries, said the traffic weighed against pre-Covid levels, was down on...
The first trans-Pacific US-bound STARLUX flight is to land at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on April 26. The five-times-a-week route from Taipei "is expected to ramp [up] to daily in June", the luxury carrier said, announcing that it is to be the official...
Southern California's Ontario International Airport reported a 15% passenger traffic increase in February 2023 compared to the same month in 2022. With 413,000 passengers, domestic volume increased 12.75% while the number of international travellers nearly doubled...
In what they described as an "unprecedented initiative", Embraer, Brazil's Aeronautical Technological Institute (ITA) and the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP) have opened an Engineering Research Center. The centre has been backed by a roughly $10...