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ST Engineering appoints Tan Lee Chew as President Commercial

Tan Lee Chew

ST Engineering has appointed Tan Lee Chew as President Commercial and also as a member of the Group Executive Committee, effective September 1, 2021. Reporting to Group President and CEO Vincent Chong, Lee Chew will oversee and drive growth for the commercial cluster, which comprises three business areas: Commercial Aerospace, Urban Solutions and Satellite Communications, and which accounts for close to 50% of group revenue as of June 30, 2021.

With Lee Chewโ€™s appointment, Lim Serh Ghee will relinquish his role as Chief Commercial Officer. He will remain as Group Chief Operating Officer (Operations Excellence), and also a member of the Group Executive Committee, until his planned retirement on October 30, 2021.  Serh Ghee joined the Groupโ€™s Aerospace business in 1984. He had held various senior management appointments over the years, and was President of the Aerospace sector from 2014 to 2020.  Serh Ghee has been instrumental in the continued global growth of the Aerospace sector, including strategically moving the sector into original equipment manufacturing of aircraft engine nacelle systems and composite floor panels, as well as further expansion of our Passenger-to-Freighter conversion capabilities.

Lee Chew joined from Amazon Web Services where she was the Managing Director, Worldwide Public Sector (ASEAN) responsible for leading new business growth through the adoption of AWS services as an enabler to deliver technology transformation at scale for organizations. Prior to that, she was with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for more than 20 years, last serving as the Senior Vice President of global Hybrid IT Sales and Category Management based in Palo Alto, California, where she led the go-to-market planning and execution of product sales strategies for the companyโ€™s Data Center Infrastructure and Software Defined technology portfolio globally.

AviaAM Leasing delivers fourth 737-800 BCF to lessee

AviaAM Leasing, a global aviation holding company engaged in tailored aircraft leasing and trading services, has announced another delivery of a 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF). This is the fourth aircraft in the passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion programme. The newly converted aircraft has joined the fleet of Bluebird Nordic, an Icelandic ACMI leasing and cargo airline.

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New start-up Ascendance Flight Technologies raises โ‚ฌ21million

Ascendance Flight Technologies, a start-up dedicated to sustainable aviation, has raised โ‚ฌ21 million. These new funds give Ascendance Flight Technologies the resources to fly its full-scale prototype, begin certification and scale-up actions for its first aircraft and help its first clients and partners to reduce the carbon emissions of their aircraft thanks to the companyโ€™s

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Sabre teams-up withย Plan3ย to provide airlines with holistic disruption management

Software and technology provider Sabre Corporation has announced a new agreement with automated airline disruption management solutionย Plan3ย to enable airlines to be more proactive when disruption strikes.ย  ย  The new alliance will allow Plan3 to draw upon Sabreโ€™s extensive industry reach and deep domain knowledge in airline technology to help accelerate the adoption of its service, while enabling

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Hawaiian Airlines reaches agreement with Gevo to purchases SAF

Hawaiian Airlines has reached an agreement with biofuel company Gevo, to purchase 50 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) over five years. Gevo expects to supply the SAF from a facility to be constructed in the Midwestern United States and begin deliveries to Hawaiianโ€™s gateway cities in California starting in 2029. โ€œThis offtake agreement

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Wizz Air Malta adds 50th aircraft to its fleet

Wizz Air has announced the addition of a 50th aircraft to the fleet of its Maltese subsidiary. Established only six months ago, Wizz Air Malta operates 265 routes from Italy, Albania, Austria, and Romania, with a fleet of 50 Airbus A320-family aircraft. The new Airbus A321neo joining Wizz Air Maltaโ€™s fleet is the most efficient

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Biden FAA leader nominee withdraws after โ€œan onslaught of unfounded Republican attacksโ€

American President Joe Bidenโ€™s nominee for the role of leader of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Phillip Washington, has withdrawn his name owing to โ€œan onslaught of unfounded Republican attacks which have focused on his service and experience, CNN reported. Though his announcement for the role was made last year, since then the

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Honeywell and Lufthansa Technik enhance collaboration on digital platform AVIATAR

Honeywell and Lufthansa Technik (LHT) are enhancing their collaboration on Lufthansa Technik’s digital platform AVIATAR to improve the customer experience in aviation analytics. Honeywell Connected Maintenance analytics are now being fully integrated into AVIATAR’s Predictive Health Analytics (PHA) suite, which will grow to more than 100 Predictors for multiple Airbus and Boeing aircraft types. Airline

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Delta Cargo reveals newest cooler at JFK International Airport

Delta Cargo has revealed its newest cooler at John F. Kennedy International Airport. From pharmaceuticals to flowers, perishable goods flying in and out of New Yorkโ€™s John F. Kennedy International Airport will now receive even higher-touch handling.ย ย  The new, state-of-the-art facility is the largest of its kind at JFK and offers an upgraded experience for

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Etihad Airways returns to Kolkata, India

Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the UAE, touched down in Kolkata, India, on March 26, as the airline made its much-anticipated return to the city. With a total of seven-weekly nonstop services, the airline will once again connect Indiaโ€™s financial capital, Kolkata, with the world through Abu Dhabi. The first flight on the new

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Jet Aviation obtains FOCA approval for line maintenance in Zurich

Jet Aviation announced today that it has successfully obtained approval from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) for its line maintenance repair station in Zurich. The facility is authorised to perform line maintenance on a range of business aircraft. Jet Aviation launched line maintenance in Zurich in May 2022, under a temporary extension

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Brussels Airlines to welcome Dorothea von Boxberg as new CEO

Currently Chairperson of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG, Dorothea von Boxberg will shortly become the new CEO of Brussels Airlines. The appointment is subject to a pending resolution by the Board of Directors of SN Airholding. She is due to take up her new position on April 15 this year and will also

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Airbus delivers first A321neo from FAL Tianjin

Airbus has delivered the first A321neo aircraft assembled at its final assembly line Asia (FAL Tianjin) to Chinaโ€™s Juneyao Air in Tianjin, China. The aircraft is powered by Pratt & Whitney GTF ย engines and features 207 comfortable seats, eight in Business and 199 in Economy Class. Its delivery flight is to use a ten percent

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