Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
AviaAM Leasing has delivered a Boeing 737-800 converted freighter to fellow Avia Solutions Group (ASG) company Bluebird Nordic, an Icelandic leasing and cargo airline. The aircraft is the fourth to be handled by AviaAM under its passenger-to-cargo conversion...
Cork Airport is to start its summer flying programme with 44 routes, 29 of them operated by Ryanair which has added Seville, La Rochelle, Venice Treviso and Rome Fiumicino and East Midlands as new destinations for 2023. Aer Lingus has restarted flights to Faro and...
Aviation services company AAR has announced a distribution agreement with Cloud Cap Technology, a Collins Aerospace Mission Systems business. This agreement adds to AAR’s presence in the unmanned aerial system (UAS) market and will see the company stock, promote, and...
Passengers departing London Gatwick have complained of long delays and near-misses catching flights due to a breakdown of the airport's check-in machines. The outage was reported on March 26 as the airport warned on its social media accounts that passengers should "be...
French carrier Chalair is to operate two new routes to France from Kerry in Ireland's south-west. The flights, to Brest and Quimpur in Brittany, are to depart every Saturday from July 1. "Ireland, and specifically County Kerry, is a very popular destination for French...
Israel's Tel Aviv Ben Gurin International Airport has halted all outgoing flights as per the announcement made by the Israel Airport Authority. For the time being, aircraft are able to land at the airport. The airport operations are disrupted due to the general strike...
Edinburgh Airport and easyJet have announced that passengers can leave luggage at the airport the day before a flight as part of the carrier's "twilight bag drop" service. Passengers on early morning flights can "come to the airport the night before to check in bags,...
UK air traffic services body NATS has announced what it says is "one of the biggest airspace modernisation changes has been implemented over Wales and south-west England" with the deployment on March 23 of systemisation and free route airspace. The system's range...
Latvia's airBaltic says it needs to temporarily lease extra aircraft for two months from March 27 due to "the manufacturer's inability to fulfil the obligations of engine maintenance in a timely manner". "We are strongly committed to our contractual obligations to...
Honeywell and Lufthansa Technik are "enhancing their collaboration on Lufthansa Technik's digital platform AVIATAR to improve the customer experience in aviation analytics", the German maintenance provider has announced. Airline customers are to "benefit from...
Korean lessor Crianza Group has bought an Airbus A380 (msn o58) from German fund investors that had leased the aircraft to Singapore Airlines in 2011. The lease was arranged and extended in 2020 by German company EastMerchant Capital, a partner in Crianza. The...
The first of what are to be 12 Air India flights a week from London Gatwick Airport took off on March 26. The airport said the new routes to Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Kochi and Goa would support tourism and trade between the two countries. “These exiting routes open up a...