Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
The British School of Aviation is reopening its training facility at London Luton Airport on July 6 with a social-distanced teaching set-up. Entitled ‘Seat 9’, BSA will implement a low-density class configuration of just nine students, as opposed to previous intakes...
The Global Aircraft Trading System has gone live, as of now, leasing companies will be able to trade aircraft electronically executing documents for the first time using digital signatures, by migrating their existing owner trusts onto the GATS platform or by...
ATR and Finnair have signed a 10-year Global Maintenance Agreement (GMA). Through this package, Finnair and Nordic Regional Airlines (NoRRA) – who operates Finnair’s regional ATR traffic – will benefit from a customised support from ATR, which will help the airline...
Etihad Airways has made a cargo delivery of COVID 19 aid to Tel Aviv with the Israeli Ambassador to the UN saying that he hoped this would be followed by direct commercial passenger trips between the two countries. “For the first time, Etihad cargo plane just landed...
On May 18 a B737-800 was towed into GAMECO hangar, marking the inauguration of its first B737-800 PTF (passenger to freighter) conversion after half-year preparation. Nowadays, under the pandemic prevention and control activities going on around the world, a serious...
MTU Maintenance, the aero engines specialists has renewed its exclusive GE90-110B contract with Aerologic by a further twelve years. The contract encompasses multiple aspects of MTU Maintenance’s PERFORMPlus offering, including engine trend monitoring, fleet...
There is potentially an oversupply of up to 2,500 narrow and widebody aircraft in the market, and global demand, once the current restrictions are lifted, will have declined by 20% by the end of 2021, according to appraisal firm IBA. IBA, , has identified a number of...
Moves by a number of leading airlines to permanently retire significant parts of their fleet as a result of COVID 19 are a mixed blessing for spare parts sector with future demand likely to be non-existent for certain types of aircraft, according to Mike Bianco, chief...
After three days of intensive work at Sao Paulo’s Maintenance Center, LATAM Group announced the first Boeing 777-300ER reconfiguration. This aircraft’s Economy cabin had passenger seats temporarily removed to increase its cargo transportation capacity by 20%. This...
Fokker Techniek, a business of GKN Aerospace, has expanded its current operations with additional aircraft parking spaces during the current challenging period. The Completion and Maintenance facility in Woensdrecht, the Netherlands, has implemented reinforced...
Aero Norway, the independent engine MRO provider, has invested in five CFM56-3 engines which it will introduce into its refurbish and sell programme. The original plan was to undertake a total of six refurbish and sell CFM56-3 engines for 2020 however to support its...
AvAir, aninventory solutions provider for the aviation aftermarket, and Lufthansa Technik have signed a long-term aftermarket sales agreement. AvAir has purchased the majority of Lufthansa Technik's overstock of rotable spares inventory. The Arizona-based...