Air Lease Corporation announced long term lease agreements with Novair for three new Airbus A321neo aircraft, which are scheduled to begin delivery in 2017. Novair is based in Stockholm, Sweden and owned by Switzerland’s Kuoni Travel Group. These aircraft are from ALC’s order book from Airbus.
Defence and security company Saab has signed an agreement with Germany’s Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for landing gear equipment across the complete Embraer E-Jet family of regional aircraft. Saab’s business area Support and Services has a well-known and long-established expertise within the field of aircraft component maintenance. Saab
ATSG announced new dry-lease agreements for two Boeing 767-200 freighters to Cargojet, a Canadian airline, for terms of up to three years beginning in the second and third quarters of 2014. These aircraft are in addition to the two 767-200 freighters Cargojet currently leases from CAM. ATSG also dry-leases two Boeing 767-300 freighters to Amerijet,
AJW Aviation has signed a three year agreement with Atitech, one of Europe’s largest MROs based in Naples, Italy, for the provision of integrated consumables management services. This will utilise the new innovative barcode scanning App that AJW has developed and deliver support for Atitech’s growing customer base across the Airbus and Boeing aircraft families.
Air Transport Services Group reported consolidated financial results for the quarter ended March 31st, 2014. For the first quarter of 2014 revenues were $143.6m, flat with a year ago. Increases in revenues from aircraft leasing and other business activities offset lower revenues from airline operations. Earnings from continuing operations of $6.5m, were lower than earnings
JorAMCo won a new long term maintenance service contract with the Kazakhstan based airline Air Astana, after the first successful collaboration took place last year for three of Air Astana’s Embraer 190s. The three year agreement between the two companies will take place from 2014 to 2016 and covers 15 checks for Embraers 190s, during
Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services (Boeing Shanghai) announced that Jeju Air and Boeing Shanghai have signed a maintenance agreement covering one lease return check and four C-checks for Jeju Air’s Boeing 737-800s. Jeju Air and Boeing Shanghai’s cooperation can be traced back to January 2010. By the end of 2014, Boeing Shanghai will have completed 12
In order to go beyond certification requirements and testing to the extremes the first ever Airbus A350 XWB to visit the United States, MSN (manufacturer’s serial number) 2 has arrived at McKinley Climatic Lab at Eglin Air Force base in northwest Florida. Over the next couple of weeks the aircraft and its various systems and
Firmly committed to the development of services situated in proximity to its operators, Airbus Helicopters has certified the Abidjan maintenance center operated by International Aircraft Services (IAS), the largest civil helicopter operator in Western and Central Africa. Equipped with all the necessary operational resources, the center will service the AS365 and AS350 models from the
Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Garuda Maintenance Facility AeroAsia (GMF), a leading supplier of MRO services in South East Asia, have signed component maintenance contracts enabling AFI KLM E&M to subcontract component repairs to GMF. These contracts were signed as a next step in the co-operation whereby GMF signed two long term
