St Angelo airport in Enniskillen is to undergo a £1.38 million expansion programme. The 37,000sq ft workspace development will accommodate a fixed-wing aircraft maintenance firm, complementing the various helicopter maintenance facilities already available at the...

Rolls Royce shares were up after the company unveiled a $1.2 billion service contract with Emirates Airlines. Shares in the company rose 2.8% yesterday to close at 615.5 pence ($9.71) on the London Stock Exchange. The shares are now down 5.9% since the Qantas...

Danish engines and aircraft maintenance company DAO Aviation has bought avionics company Dansk Fly Elektronik for an undisclosed sum. DFE staff will remain with the company.

VSMPO-Avisma Corporation has now been confirmed as being in compliance with the requirements of Pratt & Whitney Canada. Pratt & Whitney Canada approved this decision after an audit this month. During the audit they met with the specialists of the technical...

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 aircraft enroute to Paris Beauvais in France from Seville, developed a problem 20nm northwest of Madrid’s Barajas Airport and was forced to shut down an engine. The aircraft burned off fuel before making a safe landing on Barajas’ runway 90...

AFI KLM E&M and Indian Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) firm Max Aerospace, have formed a strategic partnership agreement to establish an Indian facility jointly developed with Max Aerospace in India. The deal gives AFI KLM E&M a solid position in the...

Rolls-Royce is busy preparing a replacement program for the component found to be defective on the A380 Trent 900 engines. The manufacturer will need at least 80 of the part, known as Module 51, to repair the current fleet of affected planes. However this number does...

Dublin Aerospace has been awarded a five-year contract with easyJet to overhaul its A319 series aircraft landing gears and to carry out the embodiment of a number of wing inspection service bulletins on its Airbus A320 family fleet. The new contract will begin at...

Lufthansa has replaced a Rolls-Royce engine on one of its A380 aircraft after maintenance checks detected a problem not connected with the oil leaks found on Qantas and Singapore Airlines jets. The engine has already been replaced and the aircraft is back in service....

Iberia Maintenance, AJ Walter Aviation and British Airways have signed a contract for the supply and repair of components of the 22 A320s and seven A330s operated by Thomas Cook Airlines UK and Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia. The agreement covers the replacement of...

British Airways Maintenance Glasgow (BAMG) is beginning a recruitment drive to take on more than 30 aircraft technicians and mechanics to cope with demand. Bill Armstrong, the manager of BAMG, said the additional of 30 staff and 10 apprentices is a vote of confidence...

Russian deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov has stated that a large number of counterfeit spare parts for the aviation industry enter Russia from former Soviet republics and are jeopardising flight safety on military and commercial aircrafts. Official statistics from...