Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Liverpool John Lennon Airport has announced that Aer Lingus is returning after a seven year absence, with flights to Dublin to start on April 27. The route will be operated by Emerald Airlines, Aer Lingus' regional carrier. There are to be 11 departures a week,...
GA Telesis has delivered the first of two scheduled Boeing 737-800SF cargo aircraft to Bluebird Nordic (BBN), an Avia Solutions Group company. The 737 is owned by Tokyo Century Corporation, GAT's parent company, and was delivered from the Aeronautical Engineering,...
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) is set to recruit a large number of air traffic control officers (ATCOs) by filling almost 80% of vacant posts in the coming six months. Currently, there are over 500 positions left to be filled. In a recent report published by...
London Luton Airport handled 1.2 million passengers in March 2023, a 49% increase on the same month in 2022. Almost 3.3 million passengers have used the airport in 2023 The month saw the launch of the Luton Airport Express, a non-stop train service launched by East...
IAG Cargo is restarting services from London Heathrow to Shanghai on April 23, with the Beijing route to resume on June 3. The routes were suspended for almost two years due to China's pandemic border curbs, with the last one landing in Beijing in July 2021. "Europe -...
Swissport has appointed Karen Cox as chief executive of its UK & Ireland regional operations, with Andres Diez named chief commercial officer for the Americas. “Karen and Andres have both made significant contributions to Swissport since joining the company in...
FedEx is to consolidate its companies into a single organisation and operate "a unified, fully integrated air-ground network" by 2024. The unified business will "bring distinct focus on the air network and international volume", the company said, adding it expects the...
Cancun Airport operator ASUR reported a 6.7% passenger traffic increase in March 2023 compared to the same month a year before. ASUR, which runs airports in Mexico, the US and Colombia, said traffic increased year-on-year by 11.8% in Mexico and 9.3% in Puerto Rico,...
Five of the world's ten busiest airports are in the US, according to data compiled by Airports Council International (ACI), which showed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to be comfortably ahead of all rivals with almost 94 million passengers in 2022....
Safran announced several executive appointments in early April. Former government official Franck Saudo was named chief executive of the electronics and defence division, taking over from Martin Sion, who is moving on to be chief executive of the Safran-Airbus joint...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced an agreement with US government space agency NASA "to collaborate on initiatives to plan the next generation of flight within the complex airspace of the port district". The authority oversees five airports,...
London Heathrow Airport Ltd could be facing "a shock exodus of security officers", according to the Unite trade union. The union made the warning based on what it said was "a confidential survey" of its members working at the airport. A third of the 750 officers...