Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Embraer has named Spanish airline Binter as the customer of five aircraft the Brazilian manufacturer said last week were ordered by an unnamed buyer. The E195-E2s are to be delivered next year and the year after, Embraer confirmed, and will be added to five of the...
Pakistan is working on a comprehensive plan to give a new lease of life to the long-closed airports to boost regional connectivity. According to a report by The Express Tribune, the civil aviation ministry of Pakistan plans to promote regional connectivity by making...
After arguing for months that governments should not list titanium among the commodities sanctioned in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Airbus on Friday (Dec.2) said it would stop sourcing the metal from Russia. "We are in the process of decoupling from...
Mumbai International Airport Terminal 2 faced a technical snag yesterday (Dec. 1) resulting in a massive crowd of passengers and chaos. Several passengers took to social media complaining about the long queues. Mumbai Airport is the second largest airport in India...
Airports in Australia may face operational disruptions on December 9 2022 as the United Firefighters Union (UFU) - Aviation Branch is planning to go on strike. A total of 27 airports might feel the impact, not directly as it would not cause any flight cancellations...
Some 7.8 million passengers are expected to pass through Keflavik Airport next year, Iceland’s main air travel hub. The traffic, should it materialise, would exceed the 2019 number by half a million and would be the third most on record, said Isavia, Iceland’s...
APG Cargo has been recently appointed by Azores-based SATA Cargo as the latter's general sales agent for the Canadian and United States markets. "With APG, we can now expand the business, providing a closer and more efficient service to customers, considering the...
Archer confirmed that it has "completed Maker’s first full transition flight", a landmark that came less than a year after its first hover flight and what it said was "the culmination of several months of intensive flight testing". Archer said the progress was...
Global air cargo tonnage fell last month, according to market analysis by WorldACD, which said there was a steep decline over the final week of November linked to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. The 8% week-on-week slump came at the end of what WorldACD said was...
K-Mile Asia has launched a new charter program for SF. As a part of the new program, K-Mile will operate two flights per week from mid-November serving Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX) from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (BKK) using dedicated B737-400 Freighter. Welcoming the new charter...
King Khalid International Airport has joined hands with Amazon Web Services AWS and AIRIS to provide an efficient baggage handling system using AI and unsupervised machine learning algorithms. The Chief Executive Officer of Riyadh Airports, Engineer Mohammed bin...
The Unite trade union this week warned travellers "to be braced for delays" in the run-up to Christmas as hundreds of ground handlers at Heathrow Airport said they would strike for three days from 4am on December 16. The walkout will cause "disruption, delays and...