Jan Toschka has been appointed President of Shell Aviation, taking over from Anna Mascolo, who is moving into a senior leadership position in Shell’s Downstream business. Toschka brings to Aviation broad leadership experience in energy transition, global marine, mobility as well as wholesale energy businesses. Since joining Shell in 1998, he has amassed over 20
MRO service provider SR Technics, has signed multiple new MRO contracts on the first day of this year’s Dubai Airshow, including an engine services agreement with Constellation Aviation Services to provide engine MRO services for its CFM56-5B engines powering the luxurious A318-112 Elite aircraft. MNG Airlines has again selected SR Technics as its preferred PW4000
Turkish Technic, a leading provider of technical services and solutions and Dubai-based carrier, flydubai, have signed a commemorative certificate following their partnership on the C-check operations of Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Since 2019, flydubai has contracted with Turkish Technic for maintenance, repair, and overhaul services. Over the years, Turkish Technic has also provided landing gear overhaul
Engine Lease Finance Corporation (ELF) has reported the purchase and lease back of 25 Pratt & Whitney GTF™ engines. The agreement, completed in October 2021, includes engines for both the Airbus A220 and Airbus A320neo aircraft families. Included in the transaction is also an EngineWise® long-term maintenance agreement, in which the engines will join Pratt
GA Telesis (GAT) has announced a significant expansion to its inventory of Used Serviceable Material (USM) with the disassembly of two Boeing 737NG, two Airbus A330-200 and four Airbus A340-600 aircraft. GAT’s Component Solutions team will manage the distribution of the USM from these three aircraft types. GA Telesis has disassembled over 400 commercial aircraft
The International Airlines Group (AIG) has reported an operating loss for the third quarter 2021 of €452 million (2020 restated: operating loss of -€1,923 million) and operating loss before exceptional items of -€485 million (2020 restated: operating loss before exceptional items of -€1,305 million). For the nine months the Group reported an operating loss of
A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk), the global provider of end-to-end container logistics, has placed an order for two Boeing 777 freighters. The freighters will be operated by Star Air, Maersk’s in-house aircraft operator and is the company’s first 777 order. Star Air currently operates an all-Boeing 767 freighter fleet. “As a global integrator of container
AFG Aviation Ireland, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aircraft Finance Germany GmbH, has completed the acquisition of two two Boeing B747-8F freighter aircraft bearing MSN 37562 and MSN 37563 from Saudi Arabian Airlines Corporation (Saudi Arabia) for its strategic partner Hongyuan Group (the People’s Republic of China). The Hongyuan Group is the official warehousing and
MENA Cargo has signed its first strategic partnership with euroAtlantic Airways. Portugal-based euroAtlantic Airways will supply aircraft to support MENA Cargo’s global strategy in expanding operations in SE Asia, Europe and the USA. The one-year charter agreement has been signed for a Boeing 777-200ER and Boeing 767-300ER aircraft, both of which are P2F, with the
Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Aviation Group is marking a significant milestone in the process of converting the first Boeing B777-300ER aircraft, cutting an opening in the hull to install a cargo door. The part of the cabin removed from the aircraft is 7 metres long and a third of the aircraft’s circumference. This important milestone
