MTU Maintenance recently signed a seven-year extension of its CF6-80C2 contract with Atlas Air. The contract, which has been in effect for 15 years, includes maintenance, repair and overhaul coverage of over 200 engines powering Atlas Air’s B747 and B767 fleets, as...

UK aerospace supplier Cobham will be bought by US firm Advent International for approximately £4 billion. The firm makes critical components for plane maker’s including Airbus, employing more than 10,000 people. In a statement, Jamie Pike, Cobham chairman, said it...

MTU Maintenance has revealed that JetBlue Airways has signed an exclusive 13-year contract for the airline’s V2500 pre-select fleet. The contract covers maintenance, repair and overhaul for the engines from 2020 to 2033. This contract takes MTU Maintenance’s total...

It has been announced that German Aircraft Maintenance GmbH (GAM) has had to file for insolvency at the beginning of June 2019, due to what is being described as “economic reasons”. Hans-Achim Ernst was appointed as provisional insolvency administrator. After...

Spain’s Air Europa has enlisted Sabena technics to perform base maintenance operations on two of its Boeing 787-8. For the past two years, Sabena technics has been providing Air Europa with airframe solutions for their fleet of A330s. Later this year, the French MRO...

Russian MRO services provider S7 Technics has opened a second repair shop for the CFM56 aero engines – which powers Airbus A320 family and Boeing 737 aircraft. The new facility is located at S7 Technics’ southern base at Mineralnye Vody Airport and combines several...

Global aerospace supply chain provider, Pattonair, signed a global general terms of agreement (GTA) with Safran in one of the first contracts of its kind placed by the group with a distributor. The umbrella agreement enables Pattonair to service multiple divisions and...

Airbus A220 aircraft production is one step closer to reality as the first large aircraft components for the first aircraft have been delivered to the Airbus US manufacturing facility. The first of the major component assemblies (MCAs), consisting of the aft fuselage...

GE Aviation and Lufthansa Technik AG has increased its collaboration on Boeing 777X MRO services. The companies have signed a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) agreement under which Lufthansa Technik will be GE’s authorised service provider for the backup...

Azorra Aviation will commence a set maintenance offer (SMO) agreement with GE Aviation for its CF34-10E engine fleet to help significantly reduce the engine’s cost of ownership. The SMO agreement is available to all CF34-10E customers, regardless of their maintenance,...

SMBC Aviation Capital has ordered 40 CFM International LEAP-1A engines to power 20 additional Airbus A320neo aircraft. The engine order is valued at $588 million at list price. SMBC Aviation Capital is a long term CFM customer and currently has a fleet of more than...