ARGUS International, Inc’s Market Intelligence division has been retained by Nextant Aerospace to conduct research designed to validate their next product launch. After extensive internal analysis of their future aircraft platforms, Nextant specifically tasked ARGUS with reviewing the viability of the entry level market place. Nextant Aerospace is recognized as the first company in the
Memphis-based Southern Airways is embarking on its secondary capital raise in order to further expand the carrier’s increasing demand for flights across its five-state footprint. Credited with helping secure a new tower for the Destin Airport due to its daily passenger service there, Southern has been a welcome amenity to those Memphis and Oxford beach
Flying Colours Corp. the Canadian headquartered maintenance, completion and refurbishment specialist will be promoting the rebranding of its US subsidiary, previously known as JetCorp Tech Services Inc., to Flying Colours Corp. KSUS when it exhibits at this year’s American National Business Aviation Association meeting in Las Vegas. The decision to rename the company’s St. Louis,
Flying Colours Corp. the US and Canadian based MRO, completions and refurbishment business has experienced record increases year on year in terms of maintenance activity requests and output. There has been a 35% increase in the amount of Bombardier Challenger family and Learjet aircraft type maintenance requests ranging from line maintenance work through to intensive
Swissport International and Scandinavian Airline Systems signed an agreement by which Swissport acquires a 10% stake in each of SAS’ three ground handling companies. The acquisition which has insignificant impact on profitability and liquidity of the SAS Group is effective as of 1st November 2013. The divestment and outsourcing of ground handling is an important
Aeroflot Group now includes a budget airline named Dobrolet. Originally, it was the name of the joint-stock company established in 1923, a predecessor of today’s Aeroflot. Dobrolet will be based in the Moscow region. The fleet of the new airline will consist of Boeing- 737-800NGs in one class configuration. It is assumed that the low-cost
Lufthansa LEOS, a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG, will deploy electrically powered hybrid towbarless aircraft tugs. A development contract for the project was signed with Kalmar Motor AB from Sweden on October 9th, 2013, on the occasion of the inter airport Europe exhibition in Munich. The electrically powered tug, or eSchlepper, is capable of moving
Pentastar Aviation has become the launch customer for the hosted version of Commsoft’s OASES maintenance management software, having utilized the system for several months, in a previously-unannounced deal. Pontiac, Michigan-based Pentastar Aviation has been able to access a version of OASES hosted by a data centre on behalf of Commsoft itself, meaning that it avoided
As part of its eco-efficiency programme, airberlin has developed a new measuring tool aimed at optimising air flow. No such software has ever appeared on the market before; this innovation demonstrates once again the pioneering work of airberlin in the field of fuel efficiency. Small blemishes, rough paintwork or even a one millimetre gap between
WheelTug plc announced the execution of a Slot Purchase Agreement with Malaysia Airline System Berhad Airlines for 68 737NG Systems. With the new reservations the order book of WheelTug aircraft drive systems grows to 641 delivery slots reserved by twelve airlines from Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia. Seven of those airlines are flag
