Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Dronamics announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a €2.5 million grant by the European Commission's European Innovation Council Accelerator programme. Founded eight years ago, Dronamics was the first business of its kind to be granted a licence in Europe. It...
Aviation services group Aviation Partner teamed up with Russia's Antonov to come up with "an urgent AOG cargo charter solution to move an oversized aircraft engine and critical tooling to a remote island in the Azores". Four weeks in the planning, the job entailed...
Lufthansa Cargo is planning to double its capacity to Ho Chi Minh City from the existing twice-weekly flights. Lufthansa Cargo recently added Hanoi as a new destination to its global B777F route network for the winter flight schedule for 2022/2023. The inaugural...
Menzies Aviation recently won a contract from Wizz Air Abu Dhabi to provide a range of ground services at Kuwait International Airport. This is the first contract with the airline outside of Europe. As part of the new agreement, Menzies will deliver ramp, passenger,...
Airbus's mission to market so-called zero-emissions aircraft by the middle of the next decade is making progress, the airline revealed recently, saying its experts had been working for the past 15 months on building tanks that could put hydrogen-powered jets in the...
Germany-based tourism conglomerate TUI Group and Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer this week signed a deal to give TUI's airline division access to Embraer's pool programme of repair services and component exchanges. The contract means TUI's fleet of Embraer...
Airports Company South Africa has awarded Menzies Aviation with a five-year license to provide ground-handling services at nine airports across South Africa. Menzies has been recently granted a license to operate at O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB), Cape Town...
Atlas Air, a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, on Wednesday said it had taken delivery of one of two nose-loading Boeing 747-8 freighter jets it will operate for logistics business Kuehne+Nagel. John Dietrich, US-based Atlas Air Worldwide's president and...
Iberia Maintenance (IM) this week marked the 30-year anniversary of its first c-check on an Airbus A320. Since then the maintenance division of the International Airlines Group (IAG)-owned Iberia has grown to be a key European hub for servicing not only IAG's fleet of...
Cargo.one has added Turkish Airlines' cargo division to its global online freight booking system, which it says takes in 40 airlines and around half the world's air cargo capacity. The deal means Cargo.one customers can book slots on Turkish Cargo’s "extensive network...
Pittsburgh International Airport is to sell robot-delivered drinks to volunteer passengers as part of a tie-up with Ottonomy, maker of the "fully autonomous" Ottobot. Passengers who sign up for the trial run will be able to order and pick up beverages from the robots...
Dubai International airport (DXB) has surpassed pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels in the third quarter of 2022 leading to the airport revising its annual forecast by another one million passengers. The airport now expects a higher surge in the final three months of the...