MTU Aero Engines and Pratt & Whitney have signed an agreement to grow the company’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) capabilities for all Pratt & Whitney GTF engines in service. MTU is now positioned to supply overhaul services for two additional engine...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Sita Airport Management streamlines operations at Luton Airport
SITA’s technology has helped Luton Airport in the UK reduce the time and cost required to manage and plan routine operations such as aircraft bus schedules and weekly aircraft stand planning. Automating the seven-day aircraft stand capacity planning, for example, has...
SAMCO approved for E2-Jet maintenance
SAMCO Aircraft Maintenance of the Netherlands has recently received the Embraer E2-Jet maintenance approval by EASA. This portfolio expansion of services already offered by SAMCO, increases the company’s ability to serve new and existing customers that operate the...
Iberia Maintenance awarded a Qatar Airways V2500 engines contract
Iberia Maintenance has been awarded a 10 year contract for the repair and maintenance of V2500 engines from Qatar Airways. This strategic agreement will result in scheduled visits over 10 years. All events will be carried out at Iberia Maintenance's engine workshop at...
Unum announces business class seat partners
Unum Aircraft Seating has announced three partnerships with leading innovators in aircraft design and manufacturing – SabetiWain Aerospace, SCHROTH Safety Products, and Bühler Motor Aviation GmbH. Unum launched in January 2022 to solve airlines’ longstanding...
Rolls-Royce completes sale of stake in AirTanker Holdings
Rolls-Royce has completed the sale of its 23.1% shareholding in AirTanker Holdings to Equitix Investment Management for cash proceeds of £189m. The completion of the transaction, which was announced on 13 September 2021, follows clearance from the relevant regulatory...
Airbus to showcase sustainable aerospace ambition at Singapore Airshow 2022
Airbus says that it will be one of the largest exhibitors at the upcoming Singapore Airshow, showcasing its latest products, services and its commitment to sustainable aerospace. Taking centre-stage during the flying display will be the long range A350-1000. At the...
John Menzies rejects offer from NAS
John Menzies, the aviation services provider, has confirmed that it had received a preliminary and unsolicited proposal from National Aviation Services (NAS), a subsidiary of Agility Public Warehousing (Agility), to acquire the entire, and to be issued share capital,...
Iberia Maintenance appoints new MRO Commercial & Business Development Director
Iberia Maintenance has appointed Marc Wittingen as MRO Commercial & Business Development Director, effective from February 1, 2022. Wittingen has more than 20 years of experience in International Sales, Business Development, and Strategic Partnering in commercial...
Deutsche Aircraft partners with SupplyOn
Deutsche Aircraft, which is developing the D328eco aircraft, has partnered with SupplyOn, a supply chain management company, to develop a state of the art digital management system for its supply chain, aligned with its 100% paperless, full digitalisation objective....
easyJet switches to flydocs with ten-year digitisation deal
flydocs, the digital aviation records and data management expert, has signed a comprehensive deal with easyJet to digitise the records and asset management of its entire aircraft fleet. Under the ten-year deal, the European airline will utilise flydocs’ AMOS...
Cirium partners with Aireon
Cirium, the aviation analytics company, has announced a new long-term agreement with Aireon, space-based aircraft tracking company, to integrate Aireon’s complete, global, real-time flight data with Cirium’s combination of fleet, flight status and airline schedules...