Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Korean lessor Crianza Group has bought an Airbus A380 (msn o58) from German fund investors that had leased the aircraft to Singapore Airlines in 2011. The lease was arranged and extended in 2020 by German company EastMerchant Capital, a partner in Crianza. The...
The first of what are to be 12 Air India flights a week from London Gatwick Airport took off on March 26. The airport said the new routes to Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Kochi and Goa would support tourism and trade between the two countries. “These exiting routes open up a...
SriLankan Airlines recently signed Swiss-AS, AMOS software as a next step towards paperless maintenance. The airline has also opted for AMOSmobile/EXEC which is a touch-optimised add-on to AMOS. This new feature will enable SriLankan Airlines to perform all line and...
A total of 2,732,000 passengers passed through Sydney Airport in February 2023, representing an 80.4% recovery compared to pre-COVID February 2019. The airport recently announced the passenger traffic figures for February 2023. Domestic passenger traffic was 82.9%...
Airports of Thailand is planning to invest $1.08 bn to expand the terminal at Bangkok’s Don Meuang Airport (DMK). This announcement for expansion comes in the wake of increasing passenger demand and emerging new start-up airlines in Southeast Asia. The construction of...
UK-headquartered cargo business Europa Air & Sea has opened an office in Delhi after doing likewise in Shanghai and Dubai in 2022. Part of the Europa Worldwide Group, which in 2022 reported a record turnover of £316 million, the company "is setting the pace in the...
Adani Group has plans to acquire more airports in India as a part of its robust expansion plan in the aviation sector. Indian Government has identified about 25 airports for privatisation, and intends to float tenders for 11 in the first phase of bidding. “We need to...
Skilled labour is a major concern across the global aviation sector. Addressing the issue first hand, SIA Engineering Company Limited (SIAEC) has signed an MoU with seven Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL)s. These institutes are Institute of Technical Education,...
Virgin Australia has signed Sabre’s Revenue Optimiser and Dynamic Availability solutions to help it to quickly sense and respond to evolving market conditions with real-time data insights. “We’re operating in a very different world today than the landscape of just a...
CFM International and ST Engineering have agreed a deal that will see the Singapore-based company carry out maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) work on LEAP-1A and LEAP-1B engines. “CFM is excited that ST Engineering is expanding its role within the LEAP MRO...
Air Hong Kong is planning to retire its fleet of nine A300-600 freighters in the next couple of years, with the first planes set to leave the fleet this year as per Cathay Pacific’s annual report. All the nine freighters will be returned to lessors and replaced by...
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has selected SITA to provide a carbon management platform to monitor data on carbon emissions across the airport environment, helping to track key performance indicators as the airport progresses towards its net zero carbon goal....