Aircraft & Engines

Lufthansa Technik has contracted additional engine shop visits from Russian carrier Rossiya Airlines. Until mid-2022, the company will overhaul four CFM56-5B engines at its engine shop in Hamburg, Germany. “Lufthansa Technik’s offer for the supply of life-limited parts as well as its recommendations for work scope planning and extensive warranty conditions convinced us to entrust

Atlas Air a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has announced it has entered into contract extensions with DHL Express to continue operating 20 freighter aircraft in support of their fast-growing express and e-commerce markets. These agreements build on the long-standing strategic partnership between Atlas Air Worldwide and DHL, which began in 2008 and included

Royal Aero has announced the delivery in Roswell, New Mexico of the first of six B737-700 aircraft from COPA Airlines, Panama. The serviceable life of the CFM56-7B engines will be utilized and the component parts recycled from the airframe. Royal Aero thus ensures that aircraft that would otherwise be parked for the final time fly

ACC Aviation, the global aviation services group, has successfully disposed of two de Havilland Dash 8-100 combi-configured aircraft (MSN 258 and 324).  ACC Aviation’s Asset Management Division was exclusively mandated by Canadian North, a Canadian based regional airline.  Working in close association with Canadian North and utilizing its long-standing industry relationships and expertise, ACC Aviation

Breeze Airways has revealed its new A220-300 livery, while confirming that it has reached a purchase agreement with Airbus for 20 more of the aircraft. This previously undisclosed order for 20 brings Breeze’s total order book to 80 A220-300s, the first of which will be delivered in Q4 2021. The aircraft’s fresh paint job was

United and Honeywell have announced a joint multimillion-dollar investment in Alder Fuels – a cleantech company that is pioneering first-of-its-kind technologies for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at scale by converting abundant biomass, such as forest and crop waste, into sustainable low-carbon, drop-in replacement crude oil that can be used to produce aviation fuel. When

GECAS has announced the delivery of the first of two A321NX aircraft to SalamAir with the arrival of one, MSN 10483, into Muscat, Oman from Hamburg. As announced in late 2019, GECAS is providing the two aircraft from its own skyline. SalamAir is the first operator of A320neo aircraft in Oman.  With a current fleet

Air Lease Corporation has announced a long-term lease placement for ten new Airbus A321-200neo aircraft and the sale and lease-back of five new Airbus A320-200neo aircraft with Spirit Airlines. The five A320neos are scheduled to deliver to Spirit Airlines in 2021 and 2022 and will be owned by one of ALC’s managed aircraft ventures through

Safran Helicopter Engines has performed a world first at its Bordes facility (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France); a helicopter engine run on 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). During the test, a Makila 2 ran on a biofuel produced by TotalEnergies from residues and waste from the circular economy, specifically used cooking oil. A test campaign will now

Frontier Airlines has marked a significant fleet milestone with the retirement of its last Airbus A319 aircraft – tail N949FR – delivered to the company in 2006. Frontier passengers, crew and executives commemorated the occasion during flight 391 from Nashville (BNA) to Denver (DEN). The phase-out of the A319 is part of a fleet modernization