Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
The outgoing president of the Irish Airline Pilots' Association said a third terminal is needed at Dublin Airport. Evan Cullen, who will be succeeded in mid-May by fellow Aer Lingus pilot Mark Tighe, a former head of the association, told the Irish Independent...
Around 6.4 million passengers travelled via London Heathrow Airport in April 2023, a 25% increase that took the hub to 94% of April 2019. The airport's management said that growth in passenger numbers could be levelling off, however, after the expected 2022 surge...
Manchester Airport handled 2.2 million passengers in April 2023, up 15% compared to April 2022. The airport said Dubai was the most popular destination but that Alicante had started to catch up ahead of the summer holiday season. Belfast and Antalya saw big jumps in...
Spanish airport operator Aena recorded around 77.4 million passengers in the first quarter of 2023, up 32.7% year-on-year and almost 2% more than in Q1 2019. The Q1 2023 period saw 695,549 aircraft movements at Aena-run airports, up 1.5% on Q1 2019, while 336,909...
Swissport has signed a deal to provide passenger services and ramp handling in Sofia for three Lufthansa Group airlines. The deal covers Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines operations at Sofia International Airport where Swissport has since...
The outgoing president of the Irish Airline Pilots' Association said a third terminal is needed at Dublin Airport. Evan Cullen, who will be succeeded in mid-May by Aer Lingus pilot Mark Tighe, a former head of the association, told the Irish Independent newspaper any...
Rolls-Royce's financial performance is improving, the company announced on May 11, ahead of its annual general meeting (AGM) taking place the same day. The company said the improvement has been "driven by our transformation programme workstreams and good end market...
German company MTU Aero Engines has published a report it described as giving "information on its goals, progress and achievements in the six fields of action covered by its sustainability strategy". "In addition to products, production and maintenance, the six...
Loganair has launched its routes to London Heathrow from Derry, Dundee, Orkney and Shetland. Flights from Derry, the Irish city's first to Heathrow, were switched from London Stansted on May 6, three days before the Dundee route was moved from London City Airport....
Edinburgh Airport is to host the only direct route between China and the UK region of Scotland when Hainan Airlines operates its first summer flight from Beijing on June 26. The twice-weekly flights are to run until October 8, the airport announced, with the route...
Lufthansa Technik has signed a seven-year "total component support" contract covering SmartLynx Airlines' fleet of over 60 aircraft. Smartlynx, described by Lufthansa Technik as "the leading ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance), cargo and charter services...
CFM International has announced the signing with Ryanar of signed a letter of agreement for the purchase of 150 LEAP-1B engines. The engines are to power the 150 Boeing MAX aircraft the Irish carrier said it would buy from Boeing in a deal announced on May 9....