Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
At its annual summit on Wednesday, Airbus unveiled its "DisruptiveLab", described as "a new flying laboratory designed to test technologies destined to improve aircraft performance and to reduce helicopters’ CO2 emissions". The DisruptiveLab will, the French...
Industry veteran Andrew Hodges is joining London City Airport (LCY) as chief commercial officer (CCO) ahead of what the hub expects to be a busy year. Hodges’ “extensive experience” with easyJet, British Airways and Norse Atlantic includes ”a range of commercial...
ARC Aerosystems has taken what is says is "a huge next step in the future of air travel and transport" by finishing "full transition tests" for its ARC C150 design. UK-based ARC, which says it is seeking investors, has previously conducted hover testing and transition...
Edinburgh Airport is to spend £1.6 million on redeveloping pick-up and drop-off facilities as part of £6million outlay on surface transport The makeover will "provide a simpler, safer and more modern experience", the airport claimed in a statement. Work on the...
Royal HaskoningDHV, which advises airport management bodies around the world on their development plans, has won a contract to draft a study for Lithuanian Airports on modernising terminals. The Netherlands-based group "will analyse development and modernisation...
Lufthansa Technik this week lifted the shutters on what it said is "a new and much larger repair station" in Ireland. The 3500-square-metre "state-of-the-art facility" in Celbridge near the outskirts of capital Dublin comes with ten engine bays, twice the previous...
India-based HCLTech has signed a deal to "digitally transform" Swiss aircraft repair specialists SR Technics' operations. HCLTech is to implement what a "new greenfield SAP S/4HANA environment hosted on Microsoft Azure using RISE with SAP" - work it says will allow SR...
Airbus and Renault have signed a deal to carry out research and development they say is aimed at "enhancing transversalities and synergies to accelerate both companies’ electrification roadmaps". The two manufacturers' engineers "will join forces to mature...
Vilnius-based FL Technics Engine Services has said that it has been given US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for the provision of aircraft engine repair and maintenance services in Kaunas, Lithuania. FL Technics Engine Services said the go-ahead was "an...
British Airways could be about to double its operations at Gatwick Airport, according to The Telegraph. The London newspaper on Sunday reported that the International Airlines Group (IAG)-owned carrier "is understood" to be planning to up the number of aircraft...
Cargologic Air went into administration in mid-November after a shareholder was sanctioned by the UK government in June over Russia's invasion of Ukraine four months earlier. The measures meant the carrier, which was launched in 2015 and described itself as "the only...
EasyJet said it had set "a new aviation milestone" by teaming up with Rolls-Royce to test a hydrogen-powered aircraft engine. Using a "green hydrogen created by wind and tidal power", the test was a "major step towards proving that hydrogen could be a zero carbon...