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Southwest Airlines reported that its Appearance Technicians, represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), have voted to ratify a four-year tentative agreement with the Company. The new collective bargaining agreement takes effect immediately, ahead of the current contract’s February 2017 amendable date. “I am grateful our Appearance Technicians have a new contract that provides […]

Panasonic Avionics Corporation will provide LTE technology to the air transport and business aviation markets with future expansion into maritime and mining markets. The Ericsson 5G-ready core solution is based on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN). Ericsson has been selected by Panasonic Avionics Corporation to enable the next generation of connectivity

SR Technics has opened a new training center in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, offering flexible, comprehensive training solutions to supplement the company’s existing training facilities in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2008 SR Technics has provided the employees of various regional airlines in the Middle East with basic maintenance training and type rating training, both of which

GE Aviation and COMAC have signed an MOU on digital collaboration. This agreement brings the cooperation between COMAC and GE to a new level from the aircraft engines and systems to now broadening their relationship to the use data and analytics to bring greater operational efficiency to their operations. Under the agreement, COMAC and GE

Republic Airways Holdings has taken delivery of a new state-of-the-art Cabin Trainer at the Indianapolis Training Center, where thousands of pilots and flight attendants will use the facility each year. The 15-ton, 60-foot-long Cabin Trainer is a scaled-down version of an Embraer 170/175 interior, complete with a cockpit, galley, two-class seating, lavatory, emergency escape slide