Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
New Covid variants could impede recent improvements in vaccination rates and recent subsequent increases in passenger traffic at airports throughout the world, according to Fitch Ratings in its latest quarterly Global Airport Traffic Tracker. Vaccination rates have...
Frontier Airlines has adopted Skywise Health Monitoring as its key future fleet performance tool under a five year contract covering 111 single-aisle aircraft. Launched in 2019, Skywise Health Monitoring (SHM) gathers live diagnostic feeds from the aircraft through...
StandardAero has been selected by Gran Canaria-based regional airline Binter to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F and PW127M engines which power the airline’s fleet of ATR 72 turboprop aircraft. Under the...
AAR has signed an agreement with flydubai to renew its power-by-the-hour (PBH) component pool and repair support for the airline´s Next-Generation (NG) Boeing 737 fleet. The new five-year contract builds on a partnership that started in 2016 to provide comprehensive...
Amazon has begun operations at its new air gateway at Spokane International Airport in Spokane, Washington. This is Amazon Air’s second location in the state. The first flight on Amazon Air’s branded 737 cargo aircraft, operated by Sun Country Airlines, arrived...
Aviation Integrated Services Group (AISG) has announced the closing of a joint venture (JV) between its fully controlled affiliate, SO Tech ehf and Argentinian local operator, Condor Aviation Services (CAS). The JV will provide line maintenance services in Argentina...
As it reaches its 10-year revenue service anniversary, GE has reported that its GEnx engine recently achieved outstanding endurance test results, completing over 3,000 cycles of dust ingestion testing in a simulated severe environment using a specialized dust...
SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC) has signed an agreement with Hawaiian Airlines to expand airframe maintenance services for its Airbus A330-200 fleet. SIAEC currently has existing airframe maintenance services agreements with Hawaiian Airlines for its A330 aircraft,...
C&L Aviation Group has completed the construction of a 27,000-square-foot parts warehouse on their Bangor, ME campus, adjacent to the company’s component shop. The company will be utilizing the warehouse to store parts from its current 15 aircraft teardown...
Atlas Air has completed a new joint collective bargaining agreement (JCBA) for its Atlas Air and Southern Air pilots, who are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). The five-year JCBA is one of the last major steps in completing Atlas Air’s...
Eastern Airlines, the international passenger airline, is expanding into the cargo market with the acquisition of 35 777 aircraft as feedstock for the first-ever P2F (Passenger to Freighter) conversion of the aircraft into a true, Class-E cargo aircraft. The Eastern...
C&L Aviation Services, a C&L Aviation Group company, has completed a cargo conversion on a Saab 340B+ at the company’s Maine-based MRO facility. This is the first B+ model in the world that has been converted for cargo operations. The operator, which has taken...