Cathay Pacific Airways has signed a 15-year OnPoint solution agreement with GE Aviation that covers the maintenance, repair and overhaul of the GE90-115B engine fleet for four Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and eight 777-200 Freighters ordered in August along with the 10 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft ordered in March. The OnPoint solution agreement means that GE Aviation
Rolls-Royce has won an order from Saudi Arabian Airlines, worth up to $500m, to provide engines and TotalCare support for four Airbus A330 aircraft already announced and four options. These aircraft, which are due to enter service from 2013, will be in addition to Saudi Arabian Airlines’ existing fleet of eight Trent 700 powered Airbus
SR Technics and Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT), both part of Mubadala Aerospace’s global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) network, have signed a contract with Airbus for the implementation of the Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) service at the Dubai Airshow. The implementation of AMI – an automated inventory management system – will ensure the replenishment
Lufthansa Technik, one of the MRO leaders in the Middle East, is expanding its activities in this important and strongly growing aviation market even further with a new company headquartered in Dubai – Lufthansa Technik Middle East Services (LTMES). The new business will bundle all the Middle East sales and service activities currently pursued by a variety
Cargolux has signed a 15-year OnPoint solution agreement with GE Aviation for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of its GEnx-2B engines that power its Boeing 747-8 freighters. The agreement will cover 52 GEnx-2B engines that power its 13 Boeing 747-8 Freighter, and it is valued at more than $1bn over the life of the agreement.
Lufthansa Technik has signed a second completion contract for a Boeing 747-8. An appropriate signing with an undisclosed customer took place at the Dubai Airshow 2011. The completion will start in 2012.
Republic Airways Holdings has finalized its $2.0bn order for CFM International’s advanced LEAP-1A engines to power 20 Airbus A319neo and 60 Airbus A320neo aircraft. At the same time, the airline has signed a Rate per Flight Hour (RPFH) agreement with CFM to support a total of 172 LEAP-1A engines. Under the terms of the comprehensive services
Quest Helicopters, a new name in aerospace, helicopter design and technology, launched at the Dubai Air Show. The privately-owned company, headquartered in Dubai, UAE, announced plans to fund, develop, define and refine new technology for a family of innovative new light twin engine and twin rotor system helicopters. Originally Dubbed “Project Q,” the QUEST AVQ series
In order to ensure the optimal support for its A320/A321 pool customers, Spare Solution Support India (SSSI) has contracted Sabena technics for the repair of Airbus A320 and A321 components. Sabena technics, through its component services division, launched mid October a repair management technical collaboration with SSSI. More specifically, SSSI is a joint venture between
Lufthansa Technik AG has developed a new method for significantly shortening the “Fitcheck”, and has filed a patent application for significant elements of it. The “Virtual Fitcheck” will revolutionize today’s normal practice, under which the various elements of the cabin installation have to be trial-fitted in the real aircraft in a time-consuming process. The new
