Emirates has contracted Lufthansa Technik to overhaul the centre landing gears of its Airbus A340-300 fleet. The agreement has been signed for two years and includes services for eight aircraft. Lufthansa Technik's landing gear business unit in Hamburg, Germany will...

Goodrich Corporation has signed a nacelle services agreement with Royal Jordanian Airlines. The five-year Prime Solutions agreement covers maintenance and support of nacelles and thrust reversers for the airline's fleet of V2500-powered Airbus A320s, CF34-10E powered...

Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) and International Aero Engines AG (IAE) have signed an agreement whereby IAE will support ADAT in becoming an IAE approved MRO shop capable of performing B3 level overhaul of the V2500 engine series. The new capability will...

Oxalis Lighting, part of The Oxalis Group, have been named an approved supplier to BAE Systems Saudi Arabia. The approval has been awarded to the company for the manufacture and supply of safe area and hazardous area lighting, power distribution and associated...

EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering has added aircraft types B757-200/300, B767-200/300, Airbus A330-200/30 powered by GE CF6 and Embraer E190/195 to its capability to serve EgyptAir fleet. By servicing the other aircraft, EgyptAir M&E hopes to attract new...

An Emirates 777 aircraft bound for Colombo returned to Dubai International Airport 20 minutes after it took off due to a technical failure. The aircraft landed safely and passengers took off on a substitute plane following a five-hour delay.

Goodrich Corporation has entered into a nacelle services agreement with Air Arabia. Under the 10-year contract, Goodrich will support nacelles and thrust reversers in the airline’s fleet of more than 50 Airbus A320 aircraft powered by CFM56-5B engines. Goodrich’s...

Angolan Airline, TAAG, administrator, Rui Carreira has stated that the airline is facing technical constraints as the country does not yet have the facilities to maintain 777 aircraft. “The Boeing 777 are very sophisticated planes and we still do not have our...

Royal Jordanian has signed an exclusive contract with the MTU Maintenance Hannover for the maintenance of 26 V2500 engines for its fleet of A320-family aircraft. The contract will run until March 2014. MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg, a sister company of MTU...

A delegation from Embraer visited the EgyptAir Maintenance and Engineering facility in Cairo this week. An official statement by the Egyptian MRO provider said the meeting was to “enhance all means of co-operation between the two companies in the field of providing...

Due to the popularity of BAE Systems aircraft in Africa, the company is intending to develop a regionalised African strategy to support the growing numbers of its commercial aircraft in operation in the continent. Sean McGovern, BAE Systems Regional Aircraft director...

Jordan Aviation has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners (GSP) for a three-year Engine Management Program agreement. Pratt & Whitney GSP will use its web-based Advanced Diagnostics & Engine Management tools to provide engine performance...