Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Farnborough Airport has appointed contractors McLaughlin & Harvey and Gebler Tooth for the design and construction of its new £55m 175,000 sq. ft state of the art and sustainably designed hangar development, Domus III. Farnborough Airport has been working closely...
Spanish carrier Air Europa has appointed AerFin to support its fleet of seven E190 E-Jet aircraft with a fully bespoke component support program. The BeyondPool support program will provide a dedicated cost-effective solution for managing the phase-out of the...
MTU Aero Engines grew revenue by 23% to €2.47 billion in the first half of 2022 (1-6/2021: €2.00 billion). The operating profit increased by 53% from €190 million to €290 million. The adjusted EBIT margin rose from 9.5% in the first half of 2021 to 11.7% in the first...
Heathrow Airport has reported an adjusted loss before tax of £321 million in the six months to end June 2022, as a result of higher passenger numbers. This is an improvement of prior-year period loss of £466 million. Revenue rose to £1.28bn up from £384 million a year...
Airbus has successfully tested a removable firefighting demonstrator kit on the A400M new generation airlifter during a flight test campaign in Spain. The test campaign took place in daylight conditions with a minimum operating height of 150ft, flight speeds as low as...
A new survey by CV-Library, has found that almost half of all airport and airline workers (41.4%) are considering quitting the industry, mainly for pay and stress reasons. However, only 5% cited the current disruption at UK airports, 4.2% said it was due to angry and...
Air Salvage International CEO Mark Gregory is raising a glass to his company after a successful 25 years in the air. Formed in 1997 and based at Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire, ASI has made a name as one of the world’s largest privately-owned disassembly and...
Norse Atlantic Airways has signed a Rolls-Royce TotalCare services agreement for its fleet of 15 Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. By choosing the TotalCare maintenance option, Norse Atlantic Airways has opted to transfer the management of engine...
Rolls-Royce and Italian airline Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA) Airways have signed a TotalCare service agreement for Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines that will power six Airbus A350-900 aircraft. The agreement is the first to be signed between Rolls-Royce and ITA Airways...
Norse Atlantic Airways has selected several of Boeing’s [NYSA: BA] digital solutions to streamline operations and increase flight deck efficiency as the new airline commences Transatlantic service this summer. Norse will integrate the following solutions to support...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has expressed concern that a premature return to pre-pandemic slot use rules in the EU this winter risks continuing disruption to passengers. The European Commission has announced it intends to return to the...
J&C Aero, an international aviation design and production company, has recently received its first EASA Part 145 approval covering Airbus A320 and A330 line maintenance. A Lithuanian air carrier Heston Airlines becomes the inaugural customer for J&C Aero’s new...