The Monarch Group has appointed Ian Bartholomew as Interim Managing Director of Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), its aircraft maintenance division. He succeeds Mick Adams, who is leaving the business to take up a post at Etihad Airways as Vice President of MRO based in Abu Dhabi.
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AAR has signed an agreement with SkyWest Airlines to overhaul landing gear on its fleet of 40 Embraer 175 commercial passenger jets. The contract builds upon AAR’s existing relationship and its experience servicing landing gear on the Embraer 120 family of aircraft for SkyWest Airlines. The work will be performed at AAR’s landing gear repair
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AgustaWestland announced the sale of one more AW139 intermediate twin-engine helicopter in VIP/corporate transport configuration for an undisclosed customer in North America. This latest contract continues the growing success of the AW139 for VIP transport mission in this key market, bringing the total number of aircraft sold in North America to 19. The latest AW139
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Western Global Airlines (WGA), a low cost, high quality all-cargo carrier, received final FAA certification and has been issued a Part 121 Air Operator Certificate. In addition, WGA has been certified by the U.S. DOT to be fit, willing, and able to engage in interstate and foreign air transportation of property and mail. WGA plans
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Aviall, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, has implemented a 10-year distribution agreement for BendixKing avionics products. It is the first product line to be launched by Aviall following its successful transition to the state-of-the-art enterprise resource planning system from SAP. BendixKing by Honeywell, based in Albuquerque, N.M., designs, builds and supports some
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BAE Systems has signed a five-year agreement with Emirates, the world’s largest Boeing 777 operator, to provide maintenance and technical support for its entire Boeing fleet. Under the terms of the agreement, BAE Systems will deliver on guaranteed turn around times, position product in region, and provide benchmark technical support. The company will provide maintenance
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Alaska Air Group reported July and year-to-date operational results for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Alaska reported a 6.3% increase in traffic on a 6.1% increase in capacity compared to July 2013. This resulted in a 0.1 point increase in load factor to 89.0%. Horizon reported a 3.5% increase in July traffic on
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China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries Shanghai Airlines and China United Airlines are implementing Boeing Airplane Health Management (AHM) to improve maintenance and engineering operations efficiency across China Eastern’s rapidly growing fleets. Boeing and China Eastern teams have deployed the Boeing Airplane Health Management system on 157 Next-Generation 737 airplanes. The contract extends to eventually
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Baltic Aviation Academy, aviation training centre, has been approved by the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) of Malaysia. The training centre has been audited, and received approval as Approved Training Organization (ATO) to provide Boeing 737-600/900 Type Rating training and Base training. The document is issued for Baltic Aviation Academy and its Boeing 737-800 Full
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