21 March 2013

United Airlines and the San Francisco Airport Commission have signed a 10-year lease extension on the airline’s Maintenance Operations Center at San Francisco International Airport, United’s largest maintenance facility. United has extensive maintenance facilities at its hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles and is currently constructing new widebody hangars at Newark

Within the framework of a new association with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Lufthansa Technik AG will now offer consulting services for the optimization of complex processes and the operative implementation of transformation programs. The joint venture will be headquartered in Hamburg and is scheduled to begin its work during the first half of

The IAC AR, Russia’s FAA equivalent, issued its type certificate for the R66 Turbine. With twenty-two R66 helicopters built and awaiting export to Russia, this was llong awaited news. The Russian certification process, which began in November 2010, concluded in early March 2013 shortly after the FAA’s approval of the ELOS (Equivalent Level of Safety)