Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has been awarded a new line maintenance contract with Canadian carrier, Air Transat. The new agreement covers full line maintenance support for Air Transat’s fleet of A310 and A330 aircraft at Glasgow airport. Air Transat, a...
Avion Group, which serves an international customer base including Airbus and Boeing with flight simulation products and pilot training, is to work with UK software firm Ideagen. Ideagen will provide Avion Group with its Q-Pulse software as the company looks to...
Airbus has inaugurated the fourth Hamburg A320 Family production line. Making use of digital technologies and a more flexible industrial set-up, the line is a key enabler for ramping up the single aisle programme to 60 aircraft per month by mid-2019, says Airbus....
AerFin has signed a five-year contract to support IKAR Airlines’ fleet of seven Embraer E-Jets via its “Beyond Pool” support programme. BeyondPool offers a fixed-cost solution to support the component requirements of IKAR Airlines’ seven Embraer E190s and will be...
Ahead of its capital markets update tomorrow, Rolls-Royce has confirmed it is to shed 4,600 jobs as part of its broader restructuring programme. The manufacturer announced in January that it would simply the business into three business units, which would create...
Vallair, the aircraft trading, leasing and specialist MRO organisation, has completed lease transactions for three Airbus A321 aircraft with Onur Air in Turkey. The first of these three aircraft (MSN 974), purchased from AerCap together with its engines, was delivered...
Air Malta will be optimizing its processes using IT solutions from Lufthansa Systems. It will soon start planning flights with Lido/Flight 4D, monitoring flight operations with NetLine/Ops ++ and managing its flight firming with Revenue Integrity. “We are in a...
ATITECH has signed an agreement with Rostec and Technodinamika JSC, to create and develop an MRO facility in Moscow. On January 25 in Moscow, Rostec CEO, Sergey Chemezov, and Technodinamika JSC CEO, Igor Nasenkov, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with...
Air BP, the international aviation fuel products and service supplier, has renewed its fuel supply contract at Blackbushe Airport (BBS/EGLK) in the UK, effective immediately. Air BP will continue to supply Jet A-1 and Avgas 100LL. Air BP has been supplying...
In an update this morning, Rolls-Royce confirmed that it had found similar issues relating to the Intermediate Pressure Compressor in a population of Trent 1000 engines, known as Package C engines, in another variant, the Package B engines. In agreement with the...
Airbus’ new business in May was paced by 16 bookings for widebody A350 XWB and A330 jetliners, with orders logged as well for nine single-aisle A320 Family aircraft. A total of 51 deliveries were made during the month from Airbus’ A320, A330 and A350 XWB...
The first BelugaXL has passed the Ground Vibration Test (GVT), a requirement for certification of the aircraft that paves the way towards its maiden flight in summer 2018. The objective of this test is to measure the dynamic behaviour of the aircraft and confirm...