Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Wizz Air is to link London's Gatwick Airport with Lyon in France. The Hungarian budget carrier says it will fly four times a week during the winter season to France’s third biggest city, which it described as "filled with historical landmarks, renowned restaurants,...
Traffic through Cork Airport surged by more than 700% year-on-year in 2022, with the 2.24 million passengers recorded meaning the airport had recovered to 86% of 2019 levels. Part of the recovery came on the back of a 2021 runway refurbishment, work carried out when...
Airbus UpNext, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus, has started testing and demonstrating technologies for a new on-ground and in-flight pilot assistance platform. Known as DragonFly and described as mimicking the surroundings-recognition capabilities of the eponymous...
Sensus Aero, an Avia Solutions business, said it has come up with "a new-gen software solution for the aviation industry" aimed at making maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) contracting less complicated. “Contracts between MRO services providers and their customers...
Combined passenger traffic through Kaunas, Palanga and Vilnius airports doubled to 5.35 million in 2022, according to Lithuanian Airports. The three hubs overcame a "slow start" to the year to operate almost 51,000 flights, nearly 48% more than the previous year, with...
In 2022, European airframe manufacturer Airbus delivered 661 commercial aircraft to 84 customers and received 1,078 gross new orders. Ahead of announcing a backlog of 7,239 aircraft on January 10, Airbus had earlier conceded it would not meet its 2022 production...
Spanish state-owned airport operator Aena said 2022 passenger numbers reached almost 90% of the pre-Covid level, with December traffic topping 98% of what was recorded in the same month in 2019. "The airports in the Aena network closed 2022 with a total of 243,681,775...
Bavaria's main air travel hub Munich Airport saw traffic soar tw0-and-a-half-fold year-on-year in 2022 to hit 31.6 million passengers. Nineteen million more passengers passed through the airport in 2022 compared with the year before, while air freight volume increased...
Germany's Frankfurt was the best-connected aviation hub Europe, North America and the Middle East in 2022, going by number-crunching carried out aviation analytics company Cirium "Frankfurt Airport was named the most connected airport during the year, with flights...
Heathrow Airport handled almost six million passengers in December 2022, according to a database posted on its website, almost twice as many during the same month in 2021. Annual traffic for 2022 hit 61.6 million passengers, or 76% of 2019, during 2022. At 42.2...
Airbus announced on January 10 that it has signed an agreement with Dutch high-tech industrial supplier VDL Group for the development and manufacturing of UltraAir, a laser communication terminal for aircraft that could offer airline passengers high-speed data...
Latvia's airBaltic has announced it will equip its Airbus A220-300 fleet with SpaceX’s Starlink internet connectivity system. The tie-up means passengers will get free in-flight high-speed internet access during all airBaltic flights, the carrier said. Developed by...