Vueling, the new generation airline, has carried 1,110,081 passengers in May’11. This implies a 17.5% increase vs. May 2010. The company has achieved a 72.8% load factor, 1.3 points higher than last year. Traffic for the month increased 13.6% and capacity increased 11.6% vs May 2010.
Vueling increases the number of passengers carried by 17.5% in May Read More »
Industria Aeronautica de Portugal, got certified as a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) by the Instituto Nacional de Aviação Civil (INAC), per the European Agency for the Safety of Aviation (EASA) applicable regulations; this new competence includes as well the capacity to perform aircraft condition evaluations and issue the related Airworthiness Evaluation Certificates. With this certification
OGMA got certified as a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization Read More »
AJW is now able to guarantee total quality around the globe as the certifying body, WQA, awards full certification to AJW’s Quality Management System for its new inventory hubs in Miami and Los Angeles. Following an extensive audit, the two hubs received full certification to AS9120-2005, ISO 9001-2008 and FAA ACOO-56A standards.
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Airline Services (ASL), headquartered in Manchester, UK, has appointed Chris Hoy as Head of Sales, Customer Services & Business Development, for its newly formed Aircraft Component Repair division based at Stansted Airport. Chris joins the company from SR Technics where he was Sales Director – Component Maintenance, with responsibility for attaining the company’s component maintenance
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AWAS delivered an Airbus A320-200 passenger aircraft to Starflyer, a successful and growing Japanese airline. This is the first of three planned deliveries from AWAS to Starflyer through 2014, and this delivery will be the sixth aircraft in their fleet.This new aircraft will be used on three routes: Tokyo (Haneda) to Kitakyushu, Kansai and Fukuoka
Starflyer takes delivery of first A320-200 from AWAS Read More »
The first Airbus Military C295 development aircraft fitted with an Airbone Early Warning and Command (AEW&C) rotodome has successfully completed its first flight on 7th June 2011 at Airbus Military’s site in Seville (Spain). The flight follows extensive research and development work, including wind tunnel testing, leading to the conversion of a C295 to be
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Goodrich announced it will close its Marble Avenue landing gear facility in Cleveland, Ohio by the end of 2012 due to program volume decline and the lack of appropriate new work to cost-effectively fill available capacity. Approximately 400 employees are located at the facility which supplies a range of landing gear equipment for commercial and
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Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has issued $120 million in Senior Unsecured Notes in a private placement to institutional investors. The notes contain a 5% coupon for a 5-year term with a maturity of June 6, 2016. The issuance constitutes the first time ALC has obtained long term unsecured financing under the SEC’s Regulation D in a
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United and Continental’s combined consolidated traffic in May 2011 decreased 0.3% versus pro forma May 2010 results on a consolidated capacity decrease of 0.6%. The carriers’ combined consolidated load factor in May 2011 was up 0.2 points to 83.7% compared to the pro forma results from the same period last year.
United Continental Holdings reports May 2011 operational performance Read More »
Brotonne Capital, the holding company of REVIMA, a leading landing gear MRO provider based in Normandy, France, has completed the acquisition of REVIMA APU from Hamilton Sundstrand, forming the REVIMA Group. Over the past six years, REVIMA APU has become a world class APU MRO provider, developing significantly its activity on Hamilton Sundstrand, Pratt and Whitney Canada
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