Heike Tamm

Milestone expands Falcon Aviation relationship with lease of one AW189

Falcon Aviation Services of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) has expanded its Leonardo AW189 helicopter fleet with the addition of a further two aircraft, of which one is leased from Milestone Aviation Group (Milestone), a GECAS company. The twin-engine medium-sized helicopter will arrive in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, this month to support increasing demand […]

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Boeing and EGYPTAIR Maintenance & Engineering sign MRO service agreement

Boeing and EGYPTAIR MAINTENANCE & ENGINEERING (EGME) have announced agreements that will approve the Cairo-based MRO as Boeing’s first maintenance supplier in Africa and the Middle East region. The agreement enables EGME to provide aircraft, engines and component maintenance services and solutions to Boeing customers. EGME will also receive landing gear exchange and overhaul support

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Voyageur Aviation and Segers Aviation establish regional aircraft parts depot in Dubai

Voyageur Aviation, a subsidiary of Chorus Aviation and Segers Aviation, a Segers Group company, will establish a regional aircraft parts depot in Dubai, UAE. This new partnership includes a spare parts distribution agreement that will leverage Segers’ experienced logistics and sales expertise to sell Voyageur-owned spare parts to operators in the region and beyond. Under

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Biman Bangladesh Airlines signs order for two 787-9 Dreamliner jets

Boeing and Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Biman) announced at the 2019 Dubai Airshow that the carrier is expanding its 787 Dreamliner fleet with two additional airplanes valued at US$585 million at list prices. The purchase – recorded in October as an unidentified order on Boeing’s website – complements Biman’s fleet of 787-8 jets with the larger

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Virgin Galactic debuts Astronaut Readiness Program

Virgin Galactic unveiled its Future Astronaut Readiness Program at the global headquarters of Under Armour, who are providing the spacesuits for all Virgin Galactic’s customers. A number of Future astronauts, who will be among the first to participate in space flight with Virgin Galactic, were in attendance and underwent guidance and instruction from a number

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Sanad Aerotech becomes maintenance center for LEAP engines

MRO solutions provider Sanad Aerotech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company PJSC (Mubadala), has signed a landmark agreement with GE Aviation (GE) to provide maintenance services to GE for the next generation of narrow-body and wide-body aircraft. Under this agreement, the Abu Dhabi-based company will provide performance restoration overhaul services on the GEnx-1B

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Kenya Airways and Corendon Airlines sign agreements with Joramco for base-maintenance on 787 and 737 aircraft

Joramco, the Amman based MRO and the engineering arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has won another base maintenance contract from Kenya Airways, Kenya’s flag carrier, to perform seven heavy checks and modifications on its 787 aircraft. The checks will commence in 2020, between January and September. A new customer for Joramco is Corendon Airlines,

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DAE delivers first of two Airbus A350-900 aircraft to Fiji Airways

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has delivered the first of two factory new Airbus A350-900 aircraft to Fiji Airways during a delivery ceremony at the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France. Both aircraft are being delivered on long-term leases. The Airbus A350 XWB is the first of the type to enter Fiji Airways’ fleet, making Fiji Airways

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Jet Aviation Dubai and USW cooperate to provide learning opportunities in aviation maintenance engineering

Jet Aviation Dubai and the University of South Wales (USW) Dubai have announced their cooperation to help support the development of aspiring aviation professionals. Effective immediately, Jet Aviation will provide required on-the-job training opportunities to students in Dubai enrolled at USW Dubai, while USW will support tuition for qualified Jet Aviation employees. This collaboration will

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