At the MRO Asia exhibition VietJet, Vietnam’s fast-growing low-cost carrier signed a five-year contract for the fitting of Pall Aerospace’s Avionics Cooling Filtration System on to its fleet of 92 Airbus A320 family (plus five options) aircraft that it operates and has on order. The deal is the largest ever Pall Aerospace Supplier Furnished Equipment
Alaska Airlines and CFM International have signed a nine-year Rate Per Flight Hour (RPFH) maintenance agreement to support 128 CFM56-7B engines that power the airline’s s fleet of Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 aircraft. The agreement, which includes spare engines, is valued at nearly $500 million U.S. at list price. Rate per Flight Hour agreements are part
Pratt & Whitney has entered into an agreement with Satair Group, a provider of aftermarket services and solutions for the civil aerospace industry, for the exclusive distribution of PW4000 100-inch engine nacelle exhaust system parts. Under the terms of the agreement, Satair Group will distribute the spare parts to Pratt & Whitney’s worldwide customer base.
Magnetic MRO is opening its purpose-built paint hangar’s doors for operation as of November 2nd, and has confirmed that the hangar is already booked for the next 6 months by both existing and new customers. The new facility is located at its Tallinn home-base and has been built as a part of the company’s growth
Sibir Technic, a subsidiary of the ENGINEERING Holding is the first MRO company in Russia to start providing light base maintenance, the A-check on Embraer E170 regional jets. Russia’s only operator of Embraer E170, S7 Airlines launched operation of this type in the spring of 2017. Sibir Technic’s maintenance staff received appropriate training and ratings
Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) has signed a contract to provide two CRJ200 SF freighter conversions to Pinnacle Partners. The first CRJ200 (MSN 7421) will commence modification in November with redelivery scheduled for March 2018. The second CRJ200 (MSN 7417) will commence modification in December, with redelivery scheduled for April 2018. Both freighter conversions will take place
India’s third largest airline, SpiceJet, has partnered with STG Aerospace in a cabin lighting retrofit programme, which will see the airline upgrade its fleet of 737-700/-800/-900 with LED aftermarket ambient lighting solution, liTeMood®. This is the first major retrofit win for STG Aerospace in the Asia Pacific region and the largest lighting retrofit contract that
Lufthansa Technik is expanding its capacity with a new hangar, office and multifunctional building at Sofia Airport becoming the largest base maintenance facility in Eastern Europe. Bulgarian subsidiary Lufthansa Technik Sofia will be also the largest base maintenance site of Lufthansa Technik in Europe. The total investment in the project amounts to approximately €35m invested
Lufthansa Technik has contracted two new customers for its innovative Cyclean® engine wash product, Solaseed Air in Tokyo, Japan and an unnamed customer. The contract between Lufthansa Technik and Peach Aviation of Osaka, Japan has also been extended by a further three years to 2020 for the entire A320 fleet. As of summer 2017, the
Hebei Airlines will begin to use the emergency floor-path marking system GuideU “CustomFit” from Lufthansa Technik in its Boeing 737 and Embraer E190 fleets. For the first time, this system will be implemented with an integrated corporate logo, enabling an even more customized adaptation to the corporate design of an airline. A total of 22
