Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
HAECO Xiamen has entered into an agreement with Japan Airlines Group (JAL) and Spring Airlines Japan (Spring Japan) to provide line services for Spring Japan at all of its four destinations in China. This co-operation follows an expanded engineering services...
Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) has appointed MG Ong Su Kiat Melvyn as a non-independent non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 8 June 2018. MG Ong, 43, is currently Chief of Defence Force. He joined the SAF in 1994 and has...
Sabre Corporation has expanded its 12+ year partnership with Air China. Under the agreement, the carrier will extend the breadth of its Sabre AirCentre Operations portfolio to improve the management of major and minor disruptions that affect the airline’s...
Air New Zealand is planning to lease two 777s to cover for 787-9s with Rolls-Royce engines that have maintenance issues, according to chief executive, Christopher Luxon, who spoke with Reuters in Sydney. “Any one point in time we are planning to have between...
Vietnam Airlines and Sabre Corporation have signed an expanded agreement where the carrier will leverage the breadth of SabreSonic, Sabre’s passenger service system (PSS) that Vietnam Airlines is now operating on, to improve its retailing, distribution and...
Zhejiang Loong Airlines has taken delivery of the first LEAP-1A-powered A320neo aircraft from the Airbus Final Assembly facility in Tianjin, China. The airline will be the first in Greater China to operate the advanced engine/aircraft combination. “We are very...
Spring Airlines has signed a long-term contract with AFI KLM E&M for the exclusive support of many of the components in its A320 fleet. The contract on a "power by the hour" (PBH) basis covers many references mainly in the avionics field. In order to...
TAG Aviation Asia is set to operate a Fixed Base Operation (FBO) at Macau International Airport. The Hong Kong headquartered operator has agreed to a six-year concession agreement with the Macau Airport Authority (CAM - Sociedade do Aeroporto Internacional de...
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) has received several bids from engine manufacturers for its C929 widebody passenger aircraft. Reuters reports that bids have been made by General Electric; Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, although other bids...
Following the start of final assembly work in April, ANA’s (All Nippon Airways) first A380 has completed airframe assembly and today made its debut in Toulouse. With the ANA logo on its vertical tail, the aircraft has moved to an outdoor station where...
Air Astana, the Kazakh flag carrier, has opened a new Aviation Technical Centre at Astana’s Nursultan Nazarbayev international airport. The new Aviation Technical Centre enables Air Astana to undertake all aircraft engineering and servicing requirements up to...
Travelport, the travel commerce platform, has signed a multiyear agreement with Qantas Airways that includes distribution of the Australian national carrier’s content and integration into Qantas’ recently announced NDC platform, the Qantas Distribution Platform (QDP)....