Air Niugini launching customer for Business Class “Sophia” seat model

Air Niugini has selected the Aviointeriors Business Class “Sophia” seat model for the provisioning of its Fokker F70 and Fokker F100 retrofit program. Air Niugini is the national airline of Papua New Guinea based at Jackson’s International airport in Port Moresby. Sophia seat model is a highly customizable seat: it features a light structure combined […]

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Lufthansa Technik Group establishes new facility at Dubai South

Lufthansa Technik AG is currently establishing a new facility – Lufthansa Technik Middle East (LTME) – in the Aviation District at Dubai South, in addition to the existing site at Dubai International Airport. LTME will be the 32nd member of the global Lufthansa Technik Group network of companies. The new facility will consist of both

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Monarch Aircraft Engineering signs line maintenance technical handling agreement with Norwegian

The agreement, which commenced on 11th January 2016 will see MAEL’s highly experienced engineering team provide a full suite of line maintenance services for the low-cost airline’s Boeing 737NG operation. The ongoing contract will support up to nine aircraft at London Gatwick where Norwegian is now the airport’s third largest airline.

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AEI signs contract for three B737-400SF freighter converstions for ASL Aviation Group

Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) has signed a deal with Dublin, Ireland based ASL Aviation Group to provide three 11 pallet position B737-400SF freighter conversions. All three aircraft (MSN 25177: MSN 24917: MSN 26065) will be re-delivered to ASL in May, June and July of this year, respectively. The aircraft are being converted at Commercial Jet’s Miami,

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Jet Aviation St. Louis completes comprehensive upgrades to paint shop

Jet Aviation St. Louis has completed the installation of a sophisticated system of controls for climate, air quality, and final finish in the paint shop. The most recent improvement is the installation of three new state-of-the-art decontamination chambers designed to remove traces of hexavalent chromium (hexachrome) dust from painters’ body suits, shoes and painting tools

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AAR to provide PBH support to IBEX, regional feeder for ANA Airlines

AAR, a leading provider of aviation aftermarket services to the world’s airlines, announces it recently expanded its power-by-the-hour (PBH) parts inventory management and exchange program to Asia. AAR signed its first PBH contract with IBEX Airlines in support of its CRJ aircraft. AAR will manage the aircraft supply chain from an extensive CRJ parts inventory

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EPCOR extends scope of CAAC approvals

EPCOR, AFI KLM E&M’s subsidiary specializing in MRO services for Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) and pneumatic systems, has seen its CAAC approval extended by the Chinese authorities after inspectors from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) gave their approval following an audit of EPCOR’s latest capabilities. With the extension of its CAAC certification, EPCOR

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