Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services (AMES) announced new roles for two members of its top management staff. Todd France has assumed the role of Director of Business Development. In this role Todd will manage all sales activities in all business units throughout AMES. In his prior role, France was Director of Business Operations overseeing business
Avolon delivered an Airbus A320 to Pegasus Airlines on March 24th, 2014. This is Avolon’s fourth A320 aircraft on lease to Pegasus Airlines. The first aircraft was delivered in November 2013.
AJW Aviation has signed a CFM56-7 fan blade exchange agreement with Danish airline Primera Air. The five year agreement covers the airline’s entire fleet, consisting of six Boeing 737-800s and two 737-700s. Founded in 2003, Primera Air is headquartered in Copenhagen and offers flights to over seventy destinations worldwide. The AJW Fan Blade Set Exchange
DVB Bank, which is focused on international transport finance, posted consolidated net income after taxes of €110.2m, down 11.8% year-on-year (2012: €124.9m). This decline was mainly due to a special effect which impacted on the previous year’s figure: net other operating income/expenses for 2012 included a significant non-recurring effect from the sale of a stake
Air France-KLM selected the GEnx-1B engine to power its 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 12 leased 787 aircraft. The total engine order is valued at more than $1.7bn. Air France-KLM and GE Aviation have also signed an agreement that will allow Air France-KLM to offer maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for the GEnx-1B engine.
Flying Colours Corp. the Canadian headquartered MRO, completion and refurbishment specialist has announced delivery of a reconfigured Bombardier Challenger 604 destined for a Nigerian-based client. The aircraft was redelivered to the client earlier this year following extensive maintenance, refurbishment, and reconfiguration work. The process took 14 weeks and included a major pre-purchase inspection undertaken on
Fokker Landing Gear (FLG), part of Fokker Technologies and the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) have signed a Letter of Intent for the realization of highly automated and state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for composite landing gear parts at the NLR in Marknesse (NL). The facility is scheduled to be up and running in the third quarter
Chromalloy delivered the first seal segment carrier components to Rolls-Royce for the new Trent XWB aircraft engine. Chromalloy produced the components on schedule as part of a multi-year contract for the supply chain of the new Trent XWB engine – a next generation, fuel efficient power system scheduled to enter service in mid-2014. The company
Singapore’s Tigerair has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Airbus for the purchase of up to 50 A320neo aircraft for future fleet renewal and growth. The deal covers 37 firm orders plus 13 options. The aircraft will be powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100 engines and will be operated by the airline across its
Air Lease Corporation announced lease agreements with Korean Air for six new Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which are scheduled for delivery in 2015 and 2016. These aircraft are from ALC’s order book from Boeing.
