Flatirons Solutions’ CORENA Fleet solution is now being used in production for Airbus A220 (also known as Bombardier C Series) aircraft operating in revenue-producing flight operations. Airline customers use CORENA Fleet for the revision and viewing of maintenance...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Boeing to provide Uzbekistan Airways with landing gear services
Boeing has reached an agreement with Uzbekistan Airways to provide services that will enable the airline to more efficiently and effectively maintain its 787-8 Dreamliner fleet through the Boeing Landing Gear Exchange program. The flag carrier of the Republic of...
Two Kenya Airways aircraft collide in the hangar
Two Kenya Airways Embraer 190 aircraft collided on February 8, 2019, the airline reports. The incident occurred during a standard technical engine maintenance check at the hangar that caused movement of one of the aircraft hence the impact. Both planes were not in...
Etihad Airways Engineering and Tarmac Aerosave partner to expand global MRO services
Etihad Airways Engineering has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TARMAC Aerosave, an industrial group specialising in aircraft maintenance, storage and recycling and owned jointly by Airbus, Safran and Suez. The MoU paves the way for the two companies to...
Lufthansa Technik Middle East continues on growth path
Lufthansa Technik Middle East is profiting from the steadily expanding aviation market in the Gulf region. To meet growing customer demands, the company has doubled the size of its facility and added new services to its portfolio. In the second half of 2018 the...
Falcon awarded new accreditation from GACA
Falcon Aviation, a business aviation services company in the UAE, has been awarded new accreditation to handle business jet and regional aircraft MRO at its UAE bases by Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). “This is a significant endorsement for...
Boeing forecasts Middle East aviation services market at $745bn
Boeing projects the Middle East will require $745 billion in aviation services through 2037 to keep pace with growing passenger and freight traffic in the region, according to a new report released today at MRO Middle East in Dubai. The high value services market is...
Boeing to optimise crew operations for Royal Air Maroc
Boeing has signed an agreement with Royal Air Maroc to use a suite of Boeing AnalytX-powered crew solutions to bring greater efficiency to the airline’s planning and operations. The airline will be the first in Africa to use the advanced solutions, which include Crew...
Airbus reports January orders and deliveries
Airbus opened its 2019 activity with 39 aircraft deliveries for 27 customers during January, raising the overall total of jetliners provided by the manufacturer to 11,802. The month’s deliveries involved 33 aircraft from Airbus’ single-aisle A320 Family, along with...
Saab receives Airbus order for Overheat Detection Systems
Saab has received an order from Airbus for the provision of Overheat Detection Systems (OHDS) to be installed on the Airbus A350. The OHDS is based on new technology developed by Saab and detects bleed air leakage in an aircraft. The OHDS is set to be installed on all...
Evelop Airlines opts for LHT A350 component support
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has been contracted by the Spanish Airline Evelop to provide Total Component Support (TCS) for the airline’s future Airbus A350 aircraft. The ten-year contract covers two A350-900 that will enter Evelop’s fleet in March 2019 and 2020...
Curtiss-Wright and Honeywell use connectivity to reinvent airplane black box recorders
Curtiss-Wright Corporation and Honeywell have partnered to develop an entirely new way for airlines to monitor and analyse flight data. The companies will use real-time connectivity to reinvent the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) – commonly...
