British Airways (BA), the UK’s flag-carrying airline has been left to lick its wounds after a backup generator failed to kick-in immediately following a power surge and which knocked out its whole of the carrier’s computer system on Saturday. This left the airline having to cancel all weekend flights from both Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, […]
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Ryanair has posted a 6% increase in full year net profit to €1.316bn. The combination of a 13% cut in average fares, coupled with Year 3 of the “Always Getting Better” (AGB) programme delivered 13% traffic growth to 120m customers, and a load factor of 94%. Unit costs fell by 11% (ex-fuel down 5%). Ryanair’s
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TP Aerospace has appointed Frank Rott new Managing Director of the facility in Germany and Global Chief Operations Officer of TP Aerospace Technics. Frank Rott comes from a position as CEO and Accountable Manager EASA Part-145 and Part-147 at Haitec Aircraft Maintenance GmbH. Throughout his career, Mr. Rott has held positions within companies such as
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Aircraft completions, conversions and specialized maintenance activities, currently organized within Fokker Services, will continue under the name “Fokker Techniek”. Start June 1st, 2017, located in Woensdrecht (NL). GKN Aerospace has announced that aircraft completions, conversions and complex maintenance activities which are currently organized within its Fokker Services operating company, will continue under a new name:
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Jet Aviation has signed a joint venture agreement to establish an aircraft management and charter operation in Malta. The company is working to obtain an air operator’s certificate from the Civil Aviation Directorate in Malta, which it expects to receive in the third quarter 2017. The joint venture partner, Luxury Business Jets, is part of
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Former Chief Executive Officer of Air Berlin, Stefan Pichler, has been appointed President/CEO of Royal Jordanian Airlines. As of June 1, 2017, he will succeed Captain Suleiman Obeidat. Mr. Pichler comes with a broad experience that extends for over thirty years in the aviation industry. Mr. Pichler had started his career in sales at Lufthansa
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Romanian aerospace company Aerostar S.A, is demonstrating continued strong growth in its commercial aircraft MRO business and is planning a further expansion to meet customer demand. The company is in the final stages of negotiating with the airport authorities at Iasi in northern Romania to build a new 4-bay MRO hangar for Airbus A320 family
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Asia’s leading airlines, including Asiana Airlines, AirAsia X, Nok Air, Bangkok Airways, T’way Airlines, and Indonesia’s GMF AeroAsia have awarded FL Technics, a global provider of one-stop-shop aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, with a status of an approved supplier of aircraft spare parts. With own warehouses in London, UK, as well as other locations
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