MRO & Production

AirTran Airways signed an exclusive agreement with JET Aircraft Maintenance, a designated service provider of Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners EcoPower engine wash services. Under the agreement, AirTran will use EcoPower engine wash services on its fleet of 143 aircraft, which consists of Boeing 737-700s and 717-200s aircraft.

Yemen Airways, has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for a 10-year, $90 million Fleet Management Program agreement. The agreement covers all of the owned A310 aircraft in Yemen Airways fleet, which are powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. The agreement covers all engine maintenance as well as engine health monitoring of the

Airbus China Limited and Harbin Aircraft Industry Group Company Limited (HAIG) entered into a framework contract for a Joint Venture Manufacturing Centre in Harbin, China to produce aircraft composite material parts and components. The manufacturing centre, which will be set up in early 2009, will be an equity joint venture enterprise, with HAIG holding 80%

Goodrich Corporation has received an expanded landing gear overhaul service agreement from Continental Airlines to cover virtually every model in the airline’s Boeing aircraft fleet. The expanded portion of the agreement is expected to generate $49 million in revenue over five years. Under the contract amendment, Goodrich will perform overhaul services for landing gear on

Honeywell’s Runway Awareness and Alerting System (RAAS) has been added to Airbus

Rolls-Royce and Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), the business development and investment company located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, today announced the launch of a new joint venture company to serve the rapidly expanding Middle East aviation services market. The new joint venture will offer On-Wing Care through Abu Dhabi Aircraft

GE-Aviation and SAFRAN announced agreement on a new joint venture company to cooperatively develop, produce and support engine nacelles for the next-generation single-aisle commercial airliners. The agreement covers complete nacelles and nacelle subsystems

Pratt & Whitney and its joint venture partner, Turkish Airlines Technic broke ground on a new CFM56 and V2500 engine overhaul facility in Istanbul on July 14th. Once fully operational, the 25,000-square-meter (269,000-square-foot) center is expected to overhaul up to 200 engines annually and employ up to 550 people, many of whom will be from

Ukrainian passenger and cargo carrier Donbassaero Airlines has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for a five-year maintenance service agreement. The exclusive agreement covers all engine maintenance for the fleet’s four Airbus A320 aircraft powered by V2500 engines.

Capital Cargo International Airlines, a global airport-to-airport freight transporter, has selected Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners for a five-year, Line Maintenance Services agreement. The agreement covers specific as well as any other on-condition Line Maintenance Services that Capital Cargo International Airlines may require for entry into service aircraft, as well as future owned or