Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Boeing and Silk Way West Airlines have announced that the private cargo operator will expand its international network with an order for five 777 Freighters. The deal marks the first purchase of the long-range, high capacity twin-engine freighter in the Caspian region...
GAMECO have celebrated their first 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) completed for BOCOMM Leasing and China Postal Airlines. It also marked the first time that GAMECO has completed freighter conversion work for a 737-800 airplane registered under CAAC....
London Heathrow and the UK Civil Aviation Authority today came to verbal blows after the CAA (regulator) rebuffed Heathrow’s demand to raise fees by £2.6 billion. The CAA said this claim was “disproportionate” and limited Heathrow to a £300 million per annum increase...
C&L Aerospace, a C&L Aviation Group company, has purchased nine ERJ 145 aircraft from a European-based operator for teardown. The package consists of nine complete ERJ 145 aircraft and 14 AE3007 Rolls Royce Engines. All aircraft are located in...
Werner Aero Services has acquired two Embraer E-190, MSN 118 and 149, last operated by Air Canada. The aircraft will be torn down immediately to support the demand from regional operators as they see their business picking up. “We are excited to be nearing the end of...
South Africa’s largest ground handling company, BidAir Services will be changing hands. National Aviation Services (NAS), Colossal Africa and a consortium comprised of the current executive management team have signed an agreement to acquire BidAir Services from the...
In April, the LOTAMS employees finished a C-check for the Spanish airline Air Europa. The scope of the EC-ISN redelivery check included aircraft painting and the C-check with structural and system tasks. The cooperation of the Polish maintenance company with Air...
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) and Corendon Dutch Airlines have renewed and extended the component support agreement that has been in place between the companies for several years. The contract provides for adaptive services,...
AvAir has secured its largest acquisition to date with Iberia Maintenance to gain more than 1.5 million consumable parts and 30,000 tagged rotable components. “We are grateful Iberia gave us the opportunity to provide a solution that goes far beyond a traditional...
Lufthansa Technik AG will put up large amounts of surplus aircraft parts for auction using the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) new MRO SmartHub e-Auction platform, for which the MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) giant will act as the launching...
Since yesterday, VINCI Airports has made sustainable biofuels available to Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne airport users, with Michelin Air Services as its first customer. These are provided by Air bp under a fuel contract with VINCI Airports, and are produced from used...
UAE-based charter operator Acquiline International (Acquiline) has acquired three aircraft from Russia’s defunct airline TransAero. Apart from the three Boeing 747-400 from TransAero, it has also acquired a Boeing 777-200ER. All four aircraft are currently in...