British Airways (BA) has selected Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engines to power 33 firm and 30 optional Airbus A320neo aircraft, the companies announced on the opening day of the Farnborough International Airshow. Pratt & Whitney will also provide engine maintenance under a 12-year EngineWise Comprehensive services agreement, aimed at improving fleet efficiency and reducing operating […]
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8tree, a global leader in 3-D surface inspection technology, has announced the continued adoption and expansion of its dentCHECK tooling within British Airways’ maintenance operations. A long-standing user of dentCHECK since 2017, British Airways deploys the technology across both line and base maintenance to accelerate and standardise damage inspection and reporting. In 2025, the airline
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British Airways has selected a cloud-based platform from UK aviation software specialist MRO-PRO to manage line maintenance for its international third-party customer network. The airline will introduce the MRO-PRO system across its entire line maintenance operation, enabling engineers to use mobile tablets at the aircraft to record live technical data. This information will be transmitted
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British Airways has selected the MRO-PRO platform to manage all third-party customers across its global line maintenance network. The partnership highlights MRO-PRO’s growing reputation for delivering precision-driven maintenance solutions. As part of the rollout, British Airways engineers will use MRO-PRO’s Line Maintenance tools to capture live data via mobile tablets while working on aircraft. This
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British Airways has announced its intention to acquire Boeing’s hangar facility and MRO business at Gatwick Airport (Gatwick), securing jobs and strengthening its presence at the airport. The move will enhance BA’s engineering capabilities, benefiting both customers and operations. The transaction includes the creation of a new wholly owned subsidiary, British Airways Engineering Gatwick (BAEG),
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British Airways has announced a multi-million-pound investment to expand its engineering maintenance facility at Cardiff Airport. The project involves enlarging one of the existing maintenance bays at British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC) to accommodate larger long-haul A350 aircraft. Once completed, BAMC will feature two fully flexible bays, enabling more complex maintenance tasks to be performed
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British Airways is embarking on a multi-million-pound investment programme to overhaul its ground support equipment at Heathrow Airport, as part of its commitment to reducing emissions both in the air and on the ground. The airline will gradually be replacing its ground vehicles at Heathrow, such as vans and cars, cargo transporters and passenger steps,
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A cutting-edge engineering system that uses real-time data to predict aircraft maintenance issues is helping British Airways (BA) reduce delays and save the use of more than 900,000 pieces of paper a year. The E-Logs platform will provide live performance information about all of the airline’s 270 jets, allowing the airline to immediately spot potential
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Project Speedbird – a joint partnership between Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT), LanzaJet and British Airways (BA) – has secured new funding totalling £9 million from the Government’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition. NPT, a Teesside-based cleantech company developing advanced biofuels used to produce SAF, was awarded £7.5 million as part of the partnership and LanzaJet,
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British Airways has announced that prospective pilots can, from September 19, apply for a place on a new British Airways scheme that will see the £100,000 cost of their training covered entirely by the airline. The national flag carrier’s Speedbird Pilot Academy programme will lift the previously prohibitive cost barrier of training to become an
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