Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Hong Kong Airlines has extended its long-standing partnership with Swissport at Japan’s Kansai Airport near Osaka and at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport. Swissport Japan has been providing airport ground services and air cargo handling to Hong Kong Airlines since...
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the launch customer for Boeing’s Insight Accelerator (IA), a new cloud-based digital solution employing artificial intelligence (AI) to improve operational efficiency and avoid high impact service disruptions. Manubu Tono, All...
The Schiphol airport crisis continues to add to passengers’ and airline woes. Days after the airport CEO, Dick Benschop handed over his resignation, the airport issued a statement to curb the daily passenger numbers by 18% until at least October 31, 2022 Commenting on...
Heart Aerospace is set to establish the commercial electric aircraft industry at Säve airport, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The new campus will be called Northern Runway and will include sustainable offices, production and flight test facilities. Anders Forslund, founder,...
Eviation Aircraft, a manufacturer of all-electric aircraft, has announced that Global Crossing Airlines Group (GlobalX), a Miami-based provider of passenger and cargo charter jets, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) ordering 50 all-electric commuter Alice aircraft....
Ampaire has selected Electric Power Systems (EP Systems) under an exclusive agreement to supply the propulsion battery pack for Ampaire’s hybrid-electric upgrade of the Cessna Grand Caravan. The nine-passenger Eco Caravan has undergone ground power tests and will fly...
Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport, Texas recently opened a 22,000-square-foot hangar leased by CSI Aviation for 10 years for the relocation of its regional maintenance facility. CSI also has bases in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and West Palm Beach, Florida. The Federal...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Schiphol Airport, Dick Benschop has resigned following a chaotic summer due to several flight cancellations and staff shortage post-pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, Schiphol Airport was the heart of aviation in the Netherlands and...
Air Belgium has awarded a three-year contract to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) to provide cargo handling in Johannesburg and Cape Town for the launch of its first services to South Africa. Air Belgium is expected to carry approximately 1,600 tonnes cargo per annum...
China Airlines has selected GE Digital’s Record Management System (RMS) to digitalise all the documents related to aircraft maintenance. GE Digital says that RMS is designed to enable operators like China Airlines to digitise, index, and archive maintenance records,...
Satair, an Airbus Services company, and Triumph Aviation Services Asia (TASA) have signed a multi-year agreement extending the longstanding provisioning of repair station services for Airbus Proprietary Parts powered by Satair. Since 2015, Satair has partnered with...
Ontario Airport showed robust passenger traffic for the sixth consecutive month this August. The airport officials said Southern California's Ontario International Airport has been exceeding pre-pandemic passenger levels for six months now. From January to August,...