Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
AviaAM Leasing has delivered a Boeing 737-800 converted freighter to fellow Avia Solutions Group (ASG) company Bluebird Nordic, an Icelandic leasing and cargo airline. The aircraft is the fourth to be handled by AviaAM under its passenger-to-cargo conversion...
Cork Airport is to start its summer flying programme with 44 routes, 29 of them operated by Ryanair which has added Seville, La Rochelle, Venice Treviso and Rome Fiumicino and East Midlands as new destinations for 2023. Aer Lingus has restarted flights to Faro and...
Passengers departing London Gatwick have complained of long delays and near-misses catching flights due to a breakdown of the airport's check-in machines. The outage was reported on March 26 as the airport warned on its social media accounts that passengers should "be...
French carrier Chalair is to operate two new routes to France from Kerry in Ireland's south-west. The flights, to Brest and Quimpur in Brittany, are to depart every Saturday from July 1. "Ireland, and specifically County Kerry, is a very popular destination for French...
Edinburgh Airport and easyJet have announced that passengers can leave luggage at the airport the day before a flight as part of the carrier's "twilight bag drop" service. Passengers on early morning flights can "come to the airport the night before to check in bags,...
UK air traffic services body NATS has announced what it says is "one of the biggest airspace modernisation changes has been implemented over Wales and south-west England" with the deployment on March 23 of systemisation and free route airspace. The system's range...
Latvia's airBaltic says it needs to temporarily lease extra aircraft for two months from March 27 due to "the manufacturer's inability to fulfil the obligations of engine maintenance in a timely manner". "We are strongly committed to our contractual obligations to...
Honeywell and Lufthansa Technik are "enhancing their collaboration on Lufthansa Technik's digital platform AVIATAR to improve the customer experience in aviation analytics", the German maintenance provider has announced. Airline customers are to "benefit from...
The first of what are to be 12 Air India flights a week from London Gatwick Airport took off on March 26. The airport said the new routes to Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Kochi and Goa would support tourism and trade between the two countries. “These exiting routes open up a...
The first flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Nice took off on March 25, the Hungarian budget airline has announced. The route is the latest to get off the ground from the south London hub, from where Wizz flies to around 90 destinations. “We are happy to...
SriLankan Airlines recently signed Swiss-AS, AMOS software as a next step towards paperless maintenance. The airline has also opted for AMOSmobile/EXEC which is a touch-optimised add-on to AMOS. This new feature will enable SriLankan Airlines to perform all line and...
ExecuJet MRO Services Belgium recently received approval from European regulators to provide line maintenance in other European countries. The Belgium Civil Aviation Authority granted the approval and the European Aviation Safety Agency validated it, paving the way...