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Jazz Aviation, a subsidiary of Chorus Aviation, reported that its Technical Services division, represented by Unifor, have ratified their tentative agreement reached on January 28th, 2016. Unifor represents approximately 820 maintenance and engineering employees at Jazz. The new collective agreement provides long-term labour stability to 2025, productivity enhancements and a transition to competitive labour costs.

Thomas Global Systems, a leader in the design, production and support of avionic display systems technology, has signed a partnership agreement with Hawker Pacific for distribution of Thomas Global’s pioneering plug-and-play LCD cockpit displays in the Asia Pacific region. The agreement, signed at Singapore Airshow 2016, will grant Hawker Pacific rights for the distribution of

BAA Training, EASA standard aviation training center, has recently added a new training course to its VIP Cabin Crew training services list. Henceforth the Conversion training course for business aviation personnel is available at the company. This training course is orientated to business aviation companies and is aimed to train all business aviation personnel, including

West Star Aviation has received Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the upgrade of the Honeywell CAS-81A/TPA-81A or the CAS-100A/TPA-100A with 7.0 software to the CAS-100B/TPA-100B with 7.1 software. This Approved Model List (AML) STC is applicable to various Hawker, Citation, Challenger, Falcon, and Gulfstream aircraft models. TCAS II 7.1 software improvements include the level off

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) Reserve has selected Universal Avionics MFD-640 Multi-Function Display for their fleet of KC-130T aircraft. The contract for 32 displays was awarded to Aero Dynamix by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland. Aero Dynamix will modify the displays for Night Vision Imaging System (NVIS) compatibility and deliver to

Airbus has signed an agreement to provide flight and maintenance training services to Vietjet in Ho Chi Minh City. With this agreement, Vietjet‘s flight training centre will host an Airbus A320 Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) to conduct flight crew training for its A320 family fleet. In addition, the agreement provides Maintenance training services via the Airbus