Frankfurt-based MRO service provider Haitec has selected spares firm A J Walter Aviation for a three-year contract to manage its component repair and overhaul requirements from January 2011. Haitec, which specialises in line and selected base maintenance on A320...

Turkish Technic has signed a C Check maintenance services agreement for two base maintenance C checks on Boeing B737-400 with Tailwind Airlines. The works will be carried at Turkish Technic's facilities in Istanbul during January 2011. Turkish Technic provides...

Armac Systems has signed a major software and services agreement with SR Technics, one of the world’s leading independent providers of technical services for the civil aviation sector.  Under the terms of the agreement, SR Technics will expand its deployment of...

Bureau Veritas Certification has renewed the Single and Global Certification for Air France Industries (AFI), including the new ISO 26000 Social Responsibility standard. AFI is the first aviation maintenance company to adopt the new international standard. The...

Sky Airlines has signed a maintenance contract for three A320 aircraft with Turkish Technic. Sky Airlines stated the reason for the choice was due to the MRO firm’s variety of the back workshops, diversified component capability and experienced technical staff....

AFI KLM E&M and Dutch airline Martinair has closed a component and brake support agreement for five years that covers the airline’s seven MD-11F freighter aircraft. AFI KLM E&M has recently expanded its repair capability on components for this type of...

Turkish Technic has been awarded two Boeing 737-800 C check/painting contracts from OrenAir.

Another Flybe Q400 aircraft has lost an engine access door on take-off from Southampton airport just two months after a similar incident happen in Jersey. The access door fell off the Q400 aircraft’s right-hand engine and struck and damaged the leading edge of the...

Lufthansa Technik and Wizz Air have extended the scope of their already close cooperation to Romania and the Czech Republic. According to a new five-year-contract, Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International (LTMI) provides Wizz Air with line maintenance services up...

In support of Finnair’s striking cabin crew, the union representing Finnish airline mechanics has confirmed it will not service aircraft flying into Helsinki airport. The move from the IUA union will affect British Airways and several other unnamed carriers. The week...

Brazilian airline TAM Lin-has Aéreas has placed a follow-on contract to an agreement it originally concluded with MTU Maintenance Hannover back in 1999. Under this new agreement, the company will provide maintenance services for another 57 V2500 engines powering the...

Dublin Aerospace has announced it is on target to beat its first-year targets. Analysts state the aircraft maintenance firm was "close to breakeven" on a monthly basis at the end of its first financial year in October, and also predict it could a trade sale of...