Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Icelandic leasing and cargo airline Bluebird Nordic aims to get an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) in Slovakia as part of plans to double its fleet to 25 aircraft and add to its capacity in central Europe. “Slovakia is ideally positioned in the middle of Europe, which...
Heron AirBridge signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Inmarsat’s Velaris Partner Network (VPN) to develop regulatory and operational frameworks and technologies for the safe management of drones in urban environments and complex airspaces. As part of the...
Baltic Ground Services (BGS) has renewed a contract with Ryanair for aircraft fuelling at Vilnius and Palanga airports in Lithuania and Leoš Janáček airport in the Czech Republic. “Since the beginning of the partnership with Ryanair, our focus on quality, safety and...
Air India has signed up Salesforce to transform its customer service experience at all significant touchpoints including online, on ground, onboard the aircraft etc. Salesforce claims to provide consistent data platform and artificial intelligence-assisted tools to...
Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam recorded 3.8 million passengers in February 2023, a 42% increase compared to 2022 and up almost 650% on the year before that. Almost 28,350 flights landed at or took off from the airport during the 28-day month, up 17% on 2022 but below...
In what they described as an "unprecedented initiative", Embraer, Brazil's Aeronautical Technological Institute (ITA) and the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP) have opened an Engineering Research Center. The centre has been backed by a roughly $10...
UK-based Vertical Aerospace has announced the opening of what "is believed to be the UK’s most advanced aerospace battery facility" in Bristol. The Vertical Energy Centre (VEC) is a "multi-million-pound state-of-the-art, 15,000ft2 facility" where around fifty staff...
Collins Aerospace has launched a "Powered by Collins" initiative to fund and promote innovation in "deep tech" small- to medium-sized enterprises (SME) working in the aerospace industry. "We’re establishing a clear channel for engagement between deep tech and one of...
Teesside Airport in the north-east of England has claimed to be "the UK’s first to entirely do away with the 100ml limit on liquids when passing through airport security". The amount has been lifted to two litres after the airport installed two "cutting-edge" C3...
Fort Lauderdale-parts provider GA Telesis has announced a "significant expansion" of its inventory of used serviceable material to come with the disassembly of two Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The parts will be sold to airline and maintenance customers globally and will...
LATAM's February 2023 passenger traffic was up almost 30% on the same month the year before, with the load factor hitting almost 82%, a 2.1 percentage point year-on-year increase. The carrier group said it would start flying from São Paulo/Guarulhos to Passo Fundo,...
JetBlue and Shell Aviation have announced they aim to increase the supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). JetBlue said it is "expected to take delivery of 10 million gallons of blended SAF at LAX over the next two years"...