Global Eagle Entertainment, provider of content, connectivity and digital media solutions to airlines, has signed an agreement with Royal Air Maroc to provide a broad array of local and international inflight entertainment (IFE) content across its entire fleet. Starting in September 2014, Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) will provide Royal Air Maroc with a variety of
E2open, a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for collaborative planning and execution across global trading networks, reported that Lufthansa Technik is leveraging the E2open Business Network. The cloud-based platform gives Lufthansa Technik the distinct competitive advantage of better ensuring continuity of supply and reducing delayed deliveries by getting immediate notification of problems and exceptions. Lufthansa
Basta Holdings, an aviation services and logistics management company, signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Heliflight PERU SAC to form a joint venture that will provide ACMI leasing of helicopters throughout Peru. The parties have ninety days to formalize their understanding into a definitive written agreement and one hundred twenty days to close the
Component Control released new timesaving features for StockMarket.aero, its searchable online eMarketplace for aviation parts and services. Users can now send an RFQ to multiple vendors at one time with just a few clicks of a mouse, and directly from the “Parts Wanted Broadcast” message screen. A new option allows users to easily limit searches
As the European launch customer of the next-generation Airbus A350 XWB (extra wide body) aircraft, Finnair has completed the cabin design of its new flagship longhaul product due to enter service next year. Created by top Helsinki firm dSign Vertti Kivi & Co, also the designer of Finnair’s new Premium Lounge at Helsinki Airport, the
Volartec announced Island Transvoyager (ITI Air) to be the launch customer in South East Asia. With the latest ATR 42-500 addition to the fleet, ITI sought a suitable Maintenance Management System to manage its expanding fleet. The first ATR 42 will be added to Alkym Management and Control System for Aircraft Maintenance as part of
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) announced it would file a lawsuit on Friday, Aug. 8th, 2014 against Spirit AeroSystems over the company’s plans to outsource IAM-represented jobs by selling a key fabrication operation and the use of outside contractors to perform work currently done by IAM-represented Spirit employees. Spirit employees in
Spirit Airlines and its flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), reached a tentative agreement for a five-year contract. The tentative agreement, which is subject to ratification by the flight attendant membership, planned for fourth quarter 2014, was unanimously supported by the union’s leadership. The agreement was reached with the assistance of
Gogo has received a supplemental type certificate (STC) from the FAA to install its Gogo Vision wireless in-flight entertainment product on commercial aircraft with or without Gogo’s connectivity service. Gogo Vision, the leading wireless in-flight entertainment product for commercial aviation, allows passengers to stream movies and television shows to their own Wi-Fi enabled devices from
Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. This initiative broadens cooperation between Boeing and SAA to develop renewable jet fuel in ways that support South Africa’s goals for public health as well as economic and rural development. SkyNRG is expanding production
