Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
The north of the UK is to get a new link to Turkey when SunExpress starts running weekly flights from Edinburgh to Izmir in autumn 2023. Announcing the new route, Scotland's Edinburgh Airport said there would be one flight a week to the coastal city. Previously known...
Passengers will no longer have to remove liquids and computers for separate screening after Munich Airport upgrades the security checkpoint at its Terminal 2. "State-of-the-art technology" would mean "faster, more effective procedures and much greater convenience" for...
UK-based Altitude Angel and Saab announced a deal on December 6 that will see the Swedish car and jet manufacturer put Altitude Angel's "market leading" unified traffic management (UTM) technology into its r-TWR digital towers for air traffic control. The r-TWR, a...
Travellers out of Glasgow Airport have faced flight delays and cancellations after sections of the terminal were closed at around 6 am on December 5 due to what police said was a "report of a suspicious item". The airport reopened at around noon the same day, but only...
London City Airport said BA CityFlyer is to launch routes to Salzburg on December 9 and to Chambery the following week, meaning "more choice" for Brits during "the first meaningful skiing season" since before the Covid pandemic, Chambery is less than an hour and half...
Lufthansa Technik has won a contract from a customer it did not name for what it said would be a" VIP cabin completion" of an ACJ320neo. The work is to include an "inflight entertainment and communications outfitting" based on a "latest generation" satellite...
After arguing for months that governments should not list titanium among the commodities sanctioned in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Airbus on Friday (Dec.2) said it would stop sourcing the metal from Russia. "We are in the process of decoupling from...
Some 7.8 million passengers are expected to pass through Keflavik Airport next year, Iceland’s main air travel hub. The traffic, should it materialise, would exceed the 2019 number by half a million and would be the third most on record, said Isavia, Iceland’s...
The Unite trade union this week warned travellers "to be braced for delays" in the run-up to Christmas as hundreds of ground handlers at Heathrow Airport said they would strike for three days from 4am on December 16. The walkout will cause "disruption, delays and...
The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) October 2022 global air cargo data suggest "headwinds" such as high fuel costs, the strength of the US dollar and rising inflation are hitting demand, which was down 13.6% on October last year. "As many costs are...
Airbus's UpNext subsidiary is to launch a project with the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) to look into how superconductivity can promote "decarbonisation of future aircraft systems". The tie-up is the latest in a series of so-called "clean aviation"...
Airbus said this week it was fined around €15.86 million over "past matters relating to the use of intermediaries in sales campaigns prior to 2012". The agreement with France's financial prosecutions office came after the manufacturer was accused of bribery in Libya...