Bombardier Aerospace has signed an exclusive nine-year heavy maintenance agreement with Indianapolis-based Republic Airlines for its 32 Q400 aircraft. Under this agreement, Bombardier will perform all heavy maintenance tasks for the airline’s fleet of Q400 aircraft at its service centres in Macon, Georgia and Tucson, Arizona through June 2021. In addition, Republic Airlines has agreed
Southwest Airlines (LUV) confirmed that the airline, together with its subsidiary, AirTran Airways, has reached a tentative agreement with Delta Air Lines, and Boeing Capital to sublease all 88 of its Boeing 717 aircraft to Delta. A final agreement is subject to Delta and Southwest reaching certain agreements with all parties related to the aircraft
Brazilian carrier Passaredo Linhas Aéreas introduced the new ATR 72-600 into its fleet. The airline and US-based leasing company Air Lease Corporation (ALC) have entered into an agreement for the introduction of four ATR 72-600s, and on May 22nd took delivery of the very first of these aircraft at the ATR facilities in Toulouse, France.
Finnair and the European regional airline Flybe of UK, announced that the companies plan to extend their cooperation to offer cost efficient European connections for Finnair’s passengers. Last year Finnair and Flybe formed Flybe Nordic AB, of which Flybe owns 60 % and Finnair 40 %. The companies have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has begun testing of the compressor for the next generation regional turboprop engine, a key step in the company’s technology demonstrator program. The high-efficiency compressor is a core element of the new engine and the test hardware has already run to the full range of aerodynamic design points. Key engine
Pratt & Whitney Canada SEA (P&WC SEA), located in Singapore, has signed a five-year Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) agreement with Pacific Royale Airways, a Jakarta, Indonesia-based airline. Pacific Royale Airways has recently begun operations with a 10-aircraft fleet. The PW127B engines which power half of its fleet, five Fokker 50 (High Performance) aircraft, will
Qantas has completed a review of its heavy aircraft maintenance and engineering operations in Australia and will consolidate heavy maintenance work into Brisbane and Avalon. The restructure is necessary as there is currently not enough heavy maintenance work required for three separate facilities and the introduction of new technology and modern aircraft means there will
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, announced that UTair of Russia has recently been certified as an AW139 helicopter operator and is set to operate ten AW139s for passenger, corporate and VVIP transport missions in Russia. The first aircraft is expected to be handed over this summer with deliveries planned to be completed by summer 2013. The
ST Aerospace released that further to an announcement in February 2012, it has signed agreements with Airbus, EADS and EADS EFW for a collaboration to launch the A330 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) conversion programme. Under the agreements, ST Aerospace will subscribe to new shares in EADS EFW, representing 35% of the enlarged share capital of EADS EFW,
Silver Airways accepted delivery of two more Saab 340Bplus aircraft, bringing the carrier fleet’s total Saabs to six. The Fort Lauderdale-based airline expects to integrate a total of 12 Saab 340Bplus aircraft into its fleet by September 2012. Silver Airways received United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to operate the Saab 340Bplus aircraft type
