Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
OGMA was awarded with a contract for maintenance services and periodic inspections to Kazakhstan’s award-wining carrier, Air Astana’s Embraer E-190 aircraft fleet. One year after its kick-off, OGMA makes a positive assessment of this business relationship, with five...
easyJet has taken delivery of the first new A320neo aircraft, equipped with the lightweight SL3510 seats from Recaro Aircraft Seating. easyJet ordered 20,000 of the economy class seats from Recaro to equip 130 A320neo family aircraft. The lightweight seat reduces...
Lufthansa Technik Shannon has announced a multi-million Euro investment that opens the doors for the Boeing 787 later this year. The Shannon-based aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider will modify existing aircraft hangars to accommodate the...
MTU Maintenance has completed its 1,000th CF34 engine repair and overhaul shop visit. The engine belongs to BA CityFlyer, which has been a customer of MTU Maintenance since 2010. The engine was returned to the airline, whose headquarters are in Manchester, as part of...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, has gained approval to add the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft to its MRO capability. The new aircraft type has been added to the EASA Part 145 approval, allowing MAEL to provide line...
In the spring of 2017, S7 ENGINEERING and Sibir Technics (both part of the ENGINEERING Holding) started providing maintenance services for Embraer ERJ170-100LR (Long Range) operated by S7 Airlines. S7 Airlines is the first operator of E170 aircraft in Russia. Russia’s...
Air Mauritius and AFI KLM E&M have signed an agreement covering Part 21 cabin modifications to six Airbus aircraft in the Air Mauritius fleet: two A319, two A330-200 and two A340-300. Under the terms of the contract, AFI KLM E&M will provide the program's...
Dublin Aerospace, the Irish independent aircraft MRO, has been awarded a five-year contract by the Irish Flag Carrier, Aer Lingus. Under the terms of the agreement, Dublin Aerospace will be responsible for Overhauling and Repairing the airline’s Landing Gears for...
Airbus has launched Airbus’ MRO Alliance (AMA). Going forward this will a key part of Airbus’ strategy to grow efficient and high quality services worldwide, and to address the increasing demand for MRO services forecast in the next 20 years. The AMA will comprise MRO...
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance is to join the Rolls-Royce CareNetwork with an agreement covering Trent XWB engines. Air France KLM has 25 Airbus A350 aircraft on order with 25 options, all powered by the Trent XWB. These engines will be...
AerFin Ltd (UK) has taken delivery of its ninth, tenth and eleventh Airbus A340-300 aircraft, MSN 208, 218 and 217 respectively, from Hong Kong-based carrier Cathay Pacific. These are the final three A340-300 aircraft to be delivered, marking the retirement of the...
The world’s passenger aircraft fleet above 100 seats is set to more than double in the next 20 years to over 40,000 aircraft as traffic is set to grow at 4.4 percent per year, according to Airbus’ latest Global Market Forecast 2017-2036. This forecast predicts that...