BA Engineering's Interiors and Safety Services subsidiary awarded FAA Part 145 approval

British Airways Engineering, a leading Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) provider, has announced that its Interiors and Safety Services subsidiary has received Part 145 Repair Station Authority certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. British Airways Interiors Engineering is now authorised to provide maintenance and repair for aircraft interior fittings including flight deck and crew seating

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Finnair and airberlin expand codeshare cooperation

Finnair and airberlin are building on their current codeshare cooperation and expanding in markets in Scandinavia and the Middle East. Finnair code is being added to airberlin flights starting from Oslo, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen to Berlin, and from Copenhagen to Düsseldorf. Finnair is also adding its code to airberlin-operated daily flights from Düsseldorf and

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Major upgrade of Honeywell IntuVue 3-D Weather Radar helps increase pilot in-flight situational awareness

Honeywell has unveiled the latest updates to its IntuVue 3-D Weather Radar, which include new capabilities to detect turbulence, hail and lightning, up to 10 minutes in advance of approaching storm cells in the flight path of the aircraft. Previously, pilots could not readily anticipate which storms in their flight path had either hail or

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Embraer breaks ground for new executive jet service center in Brazil

Four months after announcing its new executive jet service center in Brazil, Embraer broke ground at Bertram Luiz Leupolz (SOD) airport in Sorocaba, fulfilling its promise to bring convenient services to its customers. The 216,000 ft² site will include hangars, VIP lounges, meeting rooms and crew living quarters, as well as administrative offices. This facility

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ILFC announces pricing of $750m of 5.875% senior notes

International Lease Finance Corporation has priced, and entered into an agreement to issue and sell, subject to certain conditions, $750m aggregate principal amount of 5.875% senior notes due 2022 pursuant to an effective registration statement filed on July 23, 2012 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ILFC expects to close the offering on August 21,

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AviancaTaca Holding S.A. reports first semester 2012 net income of COP$71bn

AviancaTaca Holding reported second quarter 2012 operating revenue of COP$ 1.8tri (US$1.0bn), a 12.9% increase compared to the same period in 2011. This result is mainly due to a 12.9% increase in pax revenue fueled by an 11.6% increase in passenger traffic compared to the second quarter in 2011. Operating income in the second quarter

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Embraer delivers first AEW&C aircraft to India

Embraer Defense and Security delivered the first EMB 145 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) class of aircraft to the Government of India, in a ceremony held at Embraer’s headquarters in São José dos Campos, Brazil. The delivery follows successful completion of ground and flight tests of the aircraft which met operational targets established by

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Bombardier boosts commercial aircraft maintenance network by adding authorized service facility in Russia

Tulpar Technic has been appointed an Authorized Service Facility (ASF) for Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 regional jets. Located at Kazan International Airport in Kazan, Russia, Tulpar Technic will serve Bombardier operators in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Under an ASF agreement, Tulpar Technic is now authorized by Bombardier for all maintenance work

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ITT Exelis opens new design and manufacturing center for composite aerostructures

ITT Exelis (XLS) announced the opening of its composite design and manufacturing center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new facility provides increased capacity and enhanced automation capability for advanced commercial and military composite aircraft structures. “With the addition of automated fiber placement and tape laying capability combined with high speed machining, inspection and assembly,

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