Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
With air passenger numbers back to pre-Covid numbers, Stansted Airport managing director Gareth Powell believes the same should apply to the number of trains leaving central London for the airport. Powell said last week called on the British government to overturn its...
From April next year, passengers flying out of London City Airport (LCY) will no longer have to remove laptops and liquids from hand baggage for security screening prior to boarding. The move, LCY announced, is set to "transform" passenger experience and will make it...
Dronamics announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a €2.5 million grant by the European Commission's European Innovation Council Accelerator programme. Founded eight years ago, Dronamics was the first business of its kind to be granted a licence in Europe. It...
Aviation services group Aviation Partner teamed up with Russia's Antonov to come up with "an urgent AOG cargo charter solution to move an oversized aircraft engine and critical tooling to a remote island in the Azores". Four weeks in the planning, the job entailed...
Airbus's mission to market so-called zero-emissions aircraft by the middle of the next decade is making progress, the airline revealed recently, saying its experts had been working for the past 15 months on building tanks that could put hydrogen-powered jets in the...
Germany-based tourism conglomerate TUI Group and Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer this week signed a deal to give TUI's airline division access to Embraer's pool programme of repair services and component exchanges. The contract means TUI's fleet of Embraer...
Iberia Maintenance (IM) this week marked the 30-year anniversary of its first c-check on an Airbus A320. Since then the maintenance division of the International Airlines Group (IAG)-owned Iberia has grown to be a key European hub for servicing not only IAG's fleet of...
Cargo.one has added Turkish Airlines' cargo division to its global online freight booking system, which it says takes in 40 airlines and around half the world's air cargo capacity. The deal means Cargo.one customers can book slots on Turkish Cargo’s "extensive network...
Lufthansa Airline has signed EPCOR to provide the APS5000 Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) for its first Boeing 787-9 aircraft. EPCOR will also handle all warranty repairs on the APS5000s. Lufthansa took delivery of its first Dreamliner in August 2022, with four more to...
The Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737MAX will dominate the narrowbody market, as per the latest IBA report. The report showed that the global capacity recovery towards 2019 has slowed in the second half of 2022 but will continue in 2023 and this slow recovery rate is due...
MTU Aero Engines has predicted its revenue to be between €6.4bn and €6.6bn and assumes that it will continue to rise steadily to around €8bn in 2025 in its latest forecast for the 2023 fiscal. Going ahead, MTU anticipates the highest revenue growth from the commercial...
Lufthansa Cargo has introduced a weekly A321 freighter service from Evenes Airport (EVE) in Norway to Frankfrut, providing Norway's fresh produce directly to the Frankfurt hub and from there on to numerous destinations within Lufthansa's international network. The...