Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
The further easing of travel restrictions throughout July resulted in a 74% upsurge in passengers compared with July 2020, reveals Heathrow airport. With consumer confidence on the rise, over 1.5 million travellers passed through Heathrow last month, marking the...
Complete Aircraft Group (CAG), a UK aviation solutions provider, including the supply of aircraft tooling, parts, and components, has acquired established business aviation MRO Part 145 provider Aerocare Aviation Services (AASL). The AASL team has been operating for...
On July 22, 2021, a Volga-Dnepr delegation headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Aleksey Ivanovich Isaikin, held a meeting with Airbus’s top management which was facilitated by the MAKS 2021 International Aviation and Space Salon. During the meeting Alexey...
APOC is finishing construction of an additional 2,500m² of warehouse and technical inspections base that adjoins its existing premises at new facility in Berkel en Rodenrijs. “Irrespective of the impact of COVID-19 and the massive reduction in sales of aircraft parts...
British Airways has extended its contract with Lufthansa Technik for Base Maintenance Services for its Airbus A380 aircraft. The contract will run from August 2022 for more than five years and includes services for the airline's 12 A380s to be performed at the...
EirTrade Aviation, the aviation technical asset services and trading company with a specialist aircraft disassembly facility at Knock, Ireland West Airport, has been awarded an AFRA (Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association) accreditation. The accreditation will see the...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air cargo markets for June showing a 9.9% improvement on pre-COVID-19 performance (June 2019). This pushed first half-year air cargo growth to 8%, its strongest first half performance since...
Vallair has augmented its MRO capability with the introduction of in-house NDT (Non-Destructive Testing). The capability will not only be available at Vallair’s specialist MRO facility in Montpellier and the Aerostructure repair shop in Châteauroux, but also away...
Last week during MAKS 2021, International Aviation and Space Salon held in Zhukovsky (Russia), Volga-Dnepr Group delegation headed by Chairman of the Board, Alexey Isaykin, visited MC-21-300 – the new generation Russian passenger plane which is going to be...
LATAM Airlines has awarded Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) a cargo handling contract extension at Barcelona Airport. Having initially appointed WFS in Barcelona in 2018, LATAM has now signed a new three-year agreement for WFS to handle cargo onboard its Boeing 767...
Volga-Dnepr Group has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan to strengthen Kazan International Airport. Under the agreement, the Group and its carriers – Volga-Dnepr Airlines, AirBridgeCargo Airlines and ATRAN...
TAP Air Cargo is embarking on a new step of rationalisation of these freight reservation management processes by connecting with CargoAi, the digital air freight booking services platform. “TAP Air Cargo has implemented modern digital solutions to allow its clients to...