Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
In May, HAECO Xiamen successfully completed cabin reconfiguration work for the third of 10 Virgin Atlantic’s Airbus A330-300 aircraft planned for 2017. The 12-month project involves C4 checks in parallel with reconfiguration of the Business Class section of the Virgin...
Qantas Airways in association with Jetstar have entered into a long-term Component Pooling Services Agreement with AFI KLM E&M to support their fleet of Boeing 787s. This brings the total number of 787 customer airlines contracted by AFI KLM E&M to fifteen....
Lufthansa Technik AG and the Spanish charter airline Wamos Air have extended their existing cooperation for a further two years. Lufthansa Technik has supplied components for Wamos Air's fleet of Boeing 747-400s since 2003 as part of Total Component Support (TCS). The...
Avtrade has purchased one Airbus A321 (MSN 517) aircraft, which will be parted out and managed by Avtrade’s experienced teams from MRO, Logistics and Operations. Components will be fully serviceable and certified to both EASA and FAA release. These components will be...
Asia’s leading airlines, including Asiana Airlines, AirAsia X, Nok Air, Bangkok Airways, T’way Airlines, and Indonesia’s GMF AeroAsia have awarded FL Technics, a global provider of one-stop-shop aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, with a status of an...
Aerostar S.A, the Romanian aerospace company, is demonstrating continued strong growth in its commercial aircraft MRO business and is planning a further expansion to meet customer demand. The company is in the final stages of negotiating with the airport authorities...
Bombardier Aerostructures and Engineering Services has expanded its MRO capabilities in Belfast, UK, to include hydraulic component maintenance and repair. The MRO operation based in Northern Ireland now offers full inspection, testing, repair and overhaul of...
Air France (AF) and SITAONAIR have announced a new deal to deliver seamless aircraft data to AF’s top-flight operations and maintenance optimization programs. Under the partnership, SITAONAIR’s new e-Aircraft DataCapture solution will capture, dissect and deliver...
With "GSE 4.0", Lufthansa Technik AG has developed a system that allows Ground Support Equipment - i.e. all resources with a towbar or an ignition switch - to be found immediately using new localization software. This makes the time-consuming search for available GSE...
AerFin and SR Technics have agreed a new long term engine repair agreement. The agreement will add CFM56-5B and CFM56-7B component coverage to the already existing CFM56-5C agreement for repairs at both the SR Technics’ Zurich and Cork facilities. This further...
Thank you to all those who took part in the first Annual Airline Economics/MRO Global Dublin Aviation Summit. We had 1,656 attendees come through the doors over the past two days, with 628 attending the awards dinner, which for an inaugural event was a good show,...
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd has announced that ST Aviation Resources Pte. Ltd. (ST Aviation Resources), a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (ST Aerospace), has effected a capital reduction of its issued share capital from S$7.0m to S$2.5m....