AFI-KLM has been selected by Alitalia to provide GE90 maintenance and support. The contract includes support services with access to the spare engines pool and engine shop visits on a time and material basis.

LHT has signed a 10 year Total Component Support agreement with Sky Regional Airlines, covering its fleet of five Bombardier Q400s. This deal is significant as it is LHT’s first North American Q400 customer.

In the first three months of this year, MTU’s Maintenance signed new contracts worth around €400 million. One of the largest awarded was by Atlas Air. The US carrier had started to send the CF6-50 and CF6-80 engines powering its Boeing 747 fleet to MTU Maintenance...

MTU Aero Engines benefits from one of the largest orders placed in recent aviation history. Indian airline IndiGo has selected Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower PW1100G to equip 150 A320neo aircraft it has on firm order. The deal is for 300 of the propulsion systems,...

Turkish Technic has secured a five-year landing gear maintenance services agreement with SunExpress covering the carrier’s Boeing 737-800s.

Iberia has converted an Airbus A330-200 passenger airliner into a Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT), equipped for mid-air refuelling. It was the first time such a complex task has been performed in Spain, where Iberia maintenance and engineering teams completed it in...

Russian carrier NordStar has selected MTU Maintenance Hannover to maintain its CFM56-7B engines under a five-year contract. This is MTU’s first CFM56 customer from Russia.

TAT Technologies subsidiary Piedmont Aviation Component Services has commenced legal action against First Aviation Services (FAvS) for breach of contract for failure to provide Piedmont with FAvS’s audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2010....

SR Technics has expanded its 10 year engine maintenance contract with Airberlin to cover exclusive maintenance services for more than 300 engines, including CFM56-7B, CFM56-5B and PW4168 engines, for their entire Airbus and Boeing fleet.

An Air France Airbus A319-100 aircraft flying from Athens to Paris Charles de Gaulle hit a bird when taking off from Athens. The aircraft, AF-2333, levelled off at 8000 feet and returned to Athens for a safe landing about 30 minutes after departure.

MTU Aero Engines has exceeded its earnings forecast for the financial year 2010. Operating profit increased by 7 % from €292.3 million in 2009 to €311.3 million, which is higher than the earnings forecast of €310 million that had been revised upward in the course of...

The Airline Group, a consortium of British airlines which owns 42% of the UK air-traffic control system NATS, has voiced its reluctance for the government to reduce its dominant stake below 25%. The UK government currently controls a 49% stake in the air-traffic...