Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS, Liebherr’s center of excellence for air management systems for the aviation industry, joins forces with IoT Valley via a partnership initiated in July 2018. This initiative is in line with the company’s global innovation drive. Innovation is a major topic at Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS. A global innovation drive was thus instigated to
President Donald Trump has signed legislation passed by Congress which will extend FAA policy for a further five years under the FAA Reauthorization Bill. There are a number of provisions in the Reauthorization Bill which have drawn attention, in particular the “Seat Egress in Air Travel (SEAT) Act,” which will force the FAA to set
GE Aviation’s Accelerator opened to provide a place in the D.C., Virginia and Maryland area for hands-on collaboration with federal and defense customers to achieve mission-critical outcomes. The accelerator is an innovation space focused on using data and analytics with idea generation, incubation, and development for products and services. GE Aviation Chief Digital Officer John
Sabre Corporation has launched its industry-first Digital Airline Commercial Platform (DACP) with Aeroflot, Ethiopian Airlines and Etihad Airways on board as launch partners. Announced earlier this year, the Commercial Platform delivers end-to-end personalized retailing and helps empower airlines to successfully retail, distribute and fulfil across all customer touchpoints. As part of Sabre’s mission to reimagine
Manchester Airport Group (MAG) intends to participate in the tender process for the concession to operate Sofia Airport in Bulgaria. The process was started on July 5, by the Bulgarian Government. MAG already operates three major airports in the UK at Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands, which together serve 60 million passengers per year,
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) joined air transport businesses and associations to reaffirm its commitment to a sustainable future as the aviation industry marked ten years since agreeing an ambitious joint strategy for reducing carbon emissions. “Ten years ago, the entire aviation sector committed to a joint strategy for carbon-neutral growth and to work
During the third quarter of 2018 Avion Express demonstrated another significant growth in production. In the third quarter the airline flew over 21,600 block hours, increasing the year-on-year production result by over 67%. During 2018 Avion Express continues its long-term partnership with Thomas Cook and its daughter company Condor. This year the ACMI operator also
Seabury Solutions, a subsidiary of New York-based Seabury Capital Group, providing Information Technology solutions for the aviation industry, has added the Republic of Zimbabwe’s new start-up airline, Zimbabwe Airways, to its growing customer base in Africa’s rapidly developing aviation market. The airline will begin the certification process with the aircraft, under control of Alkym® Management
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Emirates Aviation University (EAU) to jointly develop cooperative learning opportunities and work experience programs for EAU students. As part of the cooperation agreement, DAE will participate in guest speaker opportunities at the University to further facilitate student learning and will support the University at
Alitalia has signed a contract with CrossConsense to implement the CROSSMOS® eTLB. The decision to implement an electronic techlog is part of the process of “paperless maintenance” and the reason for Alitalia for heading towards paperless maintenance is not only saving paper, environmental resources, time and money but also to accelerate the provision and transmission
