Thursday November 14, 2024
Following a comprehensive market review and supply chain challenges, ATR has announced it will discontinue development of the ATR 42-600S, a short take-off and landing (STOL) variant of its regional aircraft. This strategic decision underscores ATR's commitmen...
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CAE has announced that Marc Parent, who has led the company for 20 years, including 15 years as President and CEO, will step down at the company's annual general meeting in August 2025. Parent has been instrumental in transforming CAE into a global leader in t...
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LATAM Airlines Brazil has announced a substantial investment of US$7 million in the expansion of its maintenance base at LATAM MRO in São Carlos, São Paulo, marking the airline's largest commitment to its facilities in the past decade. This funding will supp...
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EASTEC and Thales have renewed their partnership agreement in a signing ceremony at the 15th Airshow in Zhuhai, China. Under this contract extension, Thales will continue providing maintenance and repair services for its avionics equipment installed on China E...
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RECARO Aircraft Seating (RECARO) and Iberia have reached a significant milestone in their ongoing partnership with the launch of the A321XLR aircraft featuring RECARO's new R3 economy-class seats on Iberia's Madrid to Boston route. The inaugural flight for thi...
Read More »Wednesday November 13, 2024
Spirit AeroSystems has announced a critical financial arrangement with Boeing, which will provide the company with up to US$350 million in advance payments. This cash infusion is designed to alleviate some of Spirit's ongoing financial challenges, including ex...
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Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright have jointly developed the Honeywell Connected Recorder-25 (HCR-25), a combined cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) now available for applicable Boeing and Airbus commercial and cargo aircraft. The HCR-25 wa...
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Boeing's 2024 World Air Cargo Forecast (WACF) anticipates robust growth for the air cargo industry, projecting an average annual increase of 4% in air cargo traffic through 2043. This sustained growth follows a post-pandemic resurgence, with current air cargo ...
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Chromalloy has announced the signing of a distribution and license agreement with AAR, under which AAR will exclusively distribute the company's PMA (parts manufacturer approval) parts for the CF6-80C2 engine high-pressure turbine (HPT) Stage 1 and Stage 2 bla...
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Virgin Australia has implemented necessary adjustments to its Bali flight schedule following the eruption of Mount Lewotobi in Indonesia. The volcanic eruption has released a significant ash cloud, making it unsafe to operate flights to and from Denpasar, Bali...
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SAS has joined a collaborative initiative between Danish green hydrogen producers and Dutch industrial markets, officially launched in the presence of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, His Majesty King Frederik of Denmark, Dutch Deputy Prim...
Read More »Tuesday November 12, 2024
At the recent Arab Air Carriers Organization annual general meeting in Amman, Royal Jordanian Airlines (Royal Jordanian) announced a major investment in GE Aerospace's GEnx-1B engines to power its expanding Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner fleet. The commitment compris...
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In a landmark step towards transforming India's aviation landscape, the Air India Group has finalised the operational integration and legal merger of Air India with Vistara, creating a comprehensive full-service carrier under the Air India name. This consolida...
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easyJet and Lufthansa Technik Milan have signed a three-year extension to their previous contract for ongoing light base maintenance on easyJet's extensive Airbus A320-family fleet. This extended agreement, now set to run until mid-2027, will see two of easyJe...
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Avia Solutions Group, an ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance) provider, has placed its first-ever order with Boeing for 40 737-8 aircraft, with the option to acquire an additional 40 in the future. This acquisition underscores the Group's commitment t...
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Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW), renowned for its expertise in Airbus passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions, and HNA Aviation Group (HNA), a major Chinese aviation player owned by Fangda Group, have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) to coll...
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Asia Digital Engineering (ADE), the MRO subsidiary of Capital A, has announced its latest achievement: receiving Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO) certification from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam. This milestone expands ADE's operational capabi...
Read More »Monday November 11, 2024
Air India has selected Swiss-AS‘ AMOS as its comprehensive maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) software solution to maintain high reliability in aircraft operations amid significant fleet expansion and connectivity growth. The cloud-based AMOS system...
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StandardAero's engine overhaul centre in San Antonio, Texas, has completed correlation of its first test cell for the CFM International LEAP-1A turbofan engine, marking a significant milestone in its rollout of LEAP-1A and LEAP-1B maintenance, repair, and over...
Read More »Monday November 11, 2024
A U.S. appeals court has upheld a prior ruling that deemed American Airlines' Northeast Alliance with JetBlue Airways anticompetitive, affirming the decision made by a lower court in favour of the U.S. Department of Justice. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...
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