Another milestone has been reached in advance of the first passenger flight of an Lufthansa A350-900: After more than 1,700 working hours in Lufthansa Technik's maintenance hangar in Munich, the required cabin installations are complete and the Supplemental Type...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Interjet chooses AerData tools to increase digital record keeping and data analytics-driven decision making
Interjet has chosen AerData’s Secure Technical Records for Electronic Asset Management (STREAM). AerData’s software and services improve efficiencies and enhance competitiveness for customers, including some of the world’s largest airlines, lessors and MROs. In...
Rolls-Royce wins Selectcare order from Lufthansa for Trent engines
Rolls-Royce has won an order from Lufthansa for SelectCare services covering Trent 500 engines on its Airbus A340 aircraft operated by the airline. SelectCare is a fixed price overhaul service agreement that includes a suite of supplementary services that allow...
Cyient signs a definitive agreement to acquire Certon Software
Cyient, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Cyient Inc, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Certon. Based in Melbourne, Florida, USA, Certon is an IP led innovative provider of full product life-cycle engineering services to companies...
Xiamen Airlines chooses AFI KLM E&M GEnx Engines Support
AFI KLM E&M and Xiamen Airlines have finalized an agreement organizing support for the GEnx-1B74/75 engines equipping the Chinese airline’s fleet of Boeing 787-9s, which will ultimately cover a total of six aircraft. AFI KLM E&M already provides Component and...
Aero Norway achieves CAAC Approval
Norway-based Engine MRO facility Aero Norway AS has been granted approval by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. This follows a detailed audit from the Chinese regulatory authority in September. The engine MRO centre is now multi-release FAA, EASA, TCCA and...
Lufthansa Technik extends warehouse capacities in the USA
Lufthansa Technik has now opened a new warehouse in the USA, close to the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida. The Fort Lauderdale site serves as a connecting point for North, Central and South America. It was therefore chosen as the primary storage facility for the...
Landing gear support for Air India’s Boeing 777-200/300 fleet
Air India and Lufthansa Technik have entered into an agreement for the maintenance and repair of the carrier's Boeing 777-200/300 landing gears. The four-year contract covers a total of 15 shipsets. The maintenance and overhaul work will be performed by Lufthansa...
AFI KLM E&M Beefs Up Kuala Lumpur Logistics
AFI KLM E&M has inaugurated its new Kuala Lumpur Materials and Logistics Service Center. The facility is designed to better serve the MRO’s client airlines throughout the region. A first warehouse had been deployed in 2011 as part of the Boeing Next-Generation 737...
Air Austral renews AFI KLM E&M for 777 fleet support
After inking an agreement in February covering extended support for Air Austral’s 787s, AFI KLM E&M and the Réunion-based airline have closed a deal for total care for the carrier’s 777s, which are already receiving AFI KLM E&M support. The services covered by...
MTU Maintenance signs exclusive contract with Air Europa
MTU Maintenance and Spanish airline Air Europa have signed an exclusive seven year contract for the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of the airline’s CF34-10E engines. The contract between MTU Maintenance and Majorca-based Air Europa includes shop visits,...
AFI KLM E&M to provide Air Mauritius ATR component support
AFI KLM E&M, which already supplies aircraft maintenance services for the entire Air Mauritius Airbus fleet, has signed a contract with the Mauritius carrier to organize power by the hour component support for its ATR 72-500s. The agreement covers the three...