Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
TAG Aero and ITS have entered into an agreement to support the 737 New Gen and A320 market with 131-9B and 9A APU solutions. ITS’s strategic fleet retirement solutions combined with TAG Aero’s extensive APU repair and overhaul capabilities will establish reliable,...
Brussels Airlines has moved its operations from Berlin Tegel (TXL) to Berlin’s new Brandenburg Airport (BER). The Belgian airline moves under one roof with the other Lufthansa Group airlines (Austrian, Lufthansa and SWISS). Berlin Brandenburg Airport “Willy Brandt”...
The first A330 that Iberia has converted into freighter has arrived in Los Angeles from Madrid. Until four weekly cargo flights between the two cities have been scheduled for this month. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Iberia’s flight operations were...
AAR subsidiary Airinmar, the independent provider of component repair cycle management and aircraft warranty solutions, has signed a new three-year support services agreement with Volaris. The agreement covers the provision of new aircraft warranty services to augment...
Magnetic MRO, a total technical care and asset management organization, has recently signed CAMO service agreement with regional aircraft leasing company TrueNoord. The agreement includes the re-delivery of two Mitsubishi Heavy Industries CRJ900 NextGen (previously...
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has approved plans for China Southern to establish a cargo subsidiary, based in Guangzhou, to be called China Southern Airlines Cargo. The new subsidiary will be 100% owned and funded by China Southern, and will...
GA Telesis has been awarded an exclusive mandate from China Airlines to remarket and sell four Boeing 747-400 aircraft. The remarketing mandate will be executed by GA Telesis’ Aircraft Transaction Group (ATG). The 747-400s (MSNs 33734, 33735, 33736 & 33737) are...
The cargo division of International Airlines Group has partnered with IATA’s air cargo rates distribution platform, IATA Net Rates, to offer an additional platform which customers can use to do business with IAG Cargo. As the industry continues to progress digitally,...
Jin Air has begun flying cargo to the United States for the first time using its 777-200ER passenger jet. The flight from Incheon to Los Angeles carried 23 tons of displays and other electronic components in its belly cargo space. The company said it “plans to deliver...
London Heathrow has announced that it is no longer Europe's biggest airport, with results for the nine months ending September 30 2020, showing passenger numbers are now forecast to be 22.6m in 2020 and 37.1m in 2021, compared to its June forecast of 29.2m in 2020 and...
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), which provides medium wide-body aircraft for lease, has reported a 10% increase in customer revenue during the third quarter of 2020 compared to the prior-year period to $404.1million. ATSG's principal business segments, aircraft...
ST Engineering, Airbus and their joint venture, Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) achieved a key milestone in their joint A321 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion programme in September this year with the re-delivery of the ‘head of version’ to launch customer, Vallair....