At the end of June, Dr. Alexander Toussaint will step down from his position as CEO of RUAG Aerostructures at his own request in order to pursue a new challenge outside the company. Dirk Prehn, Head of Programs & Sales and a member of the Executive Board of the RUAG Aerostructures division, will assume the […]
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HT Aerotech was granted CAMO approval by the IAA for all Airbus narrow-body Series aircraft, Airbus A330 aircraft, Boeing 737 Classic and 737 NG aircraft as well as the Embraer Aircraft Series. This complements the Bermuda (BCAA) CAMO approvals for these same aircraft types previously granted in 2016. The IAA approvals have already been utilised
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SAS Scandinavian Airlines has reported traffic results for May 2018. Scheduled traffic increased 1.6% compared to the previous year, while capacity increased 1.5%. The load factor increased to 74.1%, up 0.1 point versus last year.
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FPG Amentum, the Dublin-based aircraft leasing / management company announces the sale of two Airbus A319-112s (MSNs 3533 and 3560). The aircraft were sold on behalf of FPG Amentum’s investor customer Global Aircraft Fund I.
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Southwest Airlines has reported its May traffic statistics. Traffic in May 2018 increased 4.2% compared to May 2017, while capacity increased 5.2%. The May 2018 load factor was 84.6% compared with 85.4% in May 2017.
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Airbus has announced from its production facility in Toulouse, France that a new A350-900 destined for Philippine Airlines has taken its first flight as part of the final production process. The aircraft will be ready for delivery within the next few weeks. This is the first of six A350-900s, or XWBs on order – XWB
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The board of directors of ELTA, subsidiary and division of Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), which is headed by CEO Joseph Weiss, has approved the nomination of Yoav Turgeman to ELTA CEO and IAI EVP. Turgeman has been serving in managerial positions at IAI for the past 11 years, the most recent one as general manager
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ST Engineering’s Aerospace sector officially opened a new airframe Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facility on June 8, in Pensacola, Florida, USA. The new facility, which can carry out heavy and line maintenance, as well as aircraft modification work, joins two others that ST Engineering has in the USA, located in San Antonio, Texas and
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Having received all required regulatory approvals, Airbus SE, Bombardier and Investissement Québec (IQ) have agreed to close the C Series transaction effective on July 1, 2018. The transaction by which Airbus will acquire a majority stake in the C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership (CSALP) was initially announced in October 2017. The Mirabel-based partnership, which was
WestJet has reported May 2018 traffic results with a load factor of 82.2%, an increase of 1.6 points year over year. Traffic increased 7.5% year over year, while capacity grew 5.4% over the same period. WestJet welcomed an additional 147,000 guests in May, a year-over-year increase of 7.5%.
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