Boeing and Jetstar Airways celebrated the delivery of the carrier’s first 787 on October 8th, which is also the first Dreamliner for Australia. “Today is a historic milestone for the Qantas Group and Jetstar as we welcome the most advanced passenger aircraft ever constructed to the fleet,” said Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce. “In just […]
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Lufthansa Technik Malta (LTM), a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik, is expanding its hangar capacity for maintenance and overhaul work on Airbus widebody aircraft. With the addition to the smallest of the three hangars in Malta, which has been used to date only for narrowbody aircraft, the building will be able to accommodate aircraft up to
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Boeing has delivered the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) fifth CH-147F Chinook helicopter one month ahead of schedule and only three months after the arrival of the first in June, expanding Canada’s military cargo capability while continuing the Chinook program’s history of excellence. Boeing is scheduled to deliver two more CH-147Fs this year and another
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CIRCOR Aerospace celebrated the grand opening of their Corona, California Machining Center of Excellence on Friday, September 20th. The state of the art machining facility holds the critical machining processes for the West Coast fluidic control, actuation, and landing gear product lines. Completed in June of 2013, the new facility has 72,000ft² of manufacturing floor
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Jazz Aviation announced the appointment of Kal Rebin to Vice President, Maintenance and Engineering effective immediately. In his new role, based in Toronto, he will have responsibility for the overall management and direction of Jazz’s maintenance and engineering division.
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United Airlines reported September 2013 operational results. UAL’s September 2013 consolidated traffic increased 1.0% and consolidated capacity increased 0.2% versus September 2012. UAL’s September 2013 consolidated load factor increased 0.6 points compared to September 2012 and was 82.7%.
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Following Air Lease Corporation’s investment grade ratings and strengthened credit profile, the company announced that one of its banks has agreed to revise and improve the terms for approximately $170m of secured debt related to the financing of six ALC aircraft. Under the terms of the agreement, the bank has agreed to reduce the interest
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In September, Finnair traffic rose by 7.4% and the overall capacity grew 4.0% year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor improved by 2.6 points and was 81.1%.
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Universal Asset Management, a global leader in aviation asset management, aircraft disassembly and commercial aviation aftermarket component sales, announced that UAM Holdings, a corporation wholly owned and operated by Keri Wright, has acquired 100% of Universal Asset Management and its wholly owned subsidiary, Universal Air Repair. The transaction will enable Universal Asset Management to build
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