Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled this week that the third runway for London Heathrow airport can proceed. The court has ruled in favour of the government’s decision to support a third runway at Heathrow and ruled that the government had taken proper account of the...
ACIA Aero Leasing has delivered a further ATR72-212 LCD Freighter to Solenta Aviation. The aircraft will be based in Gabon and operate routes for the DHL West Africa network. This latest conversion brings ACIA's total regional freighter aircraft portfolio to 8...
AerFin and Finnair are collaborating in the sustainable phase-out management of Finnair’s retiring aircraft. The collaboration starts with the disassembly of one of Finnair’s A319 aircraft, whereby Finnair leverages AerFin’s technical and commercial expertise to...
CDB Aviation, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing, has announced today a new partnership with Germany-based EFW GmbH (EFW) to conduct the Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) conversion of two Airbus A330-300 aircraft in 2021, which...
Bii.aero, continues to expand its aircraft parts and services for the commercial, governmental/military and rotary aviation sectors, and has boosted its stock of A320 family galley inserts. Andrew Newell, Sales Director at Bii confirms that the company has purchased...
MTU Maintenance has signed a an exclusive V2500 engine maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) contract with new customer Air Serbia. The six-year agreement covers MRO, engine trend monitoring and spare engine services for Air Serbia’s v-powered A319 and A320 aircraft...
Stewart Wingate, the chief executive of London's Gatwick airport, has commented to media that it is essential for UK and European regulators to reinstate rules that force airlines to use or lose their take-off and landing slots. The 80/20 rule was suspended for a...
Aircraft remarketing specialists Airstream International Group has arranged the sale of a Bombardier DHC-8-311 aircraft on behalf of a US Investor. MSN 527 will be converted to a freighter and is the third aircraft that Airstream has placed with Air Inuit with the...
Danish airline, Great Dane Airlines, has joined the group of LOTAMS technical base customers with a structural check of Embraer 195 OY-GDA. The structural check performed at OY-GDA is a "72 month check", which are performed on aircraft after six years of operation. At...
Heathrow CEO, John Holland-Kaye, has again criticised the lack of assistance from the UK government for the aviation sector. The airport has reported a 82% decline in traffic for the month of October compared to 2019 figures, which represents the eighth consecutive...
EME Aero, the engine services joint venture between Lufthansa Technik and MTU Aero Engines, has recently completed the first regular maintenance visits of Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM Geared Turbo Fan (GTF) engines. Since January, when the first engine arrived in...
Aerospace component provider, Meggitt, has posted a fall of 25% in group revenue to £384million in the third quarter of 2020. For the first nine months of the year, revenue fell by 18% to £1.301bn. “While conditions in the global civil aerospace sector remained weak...