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Sabre Corporation, a leading technology provider to the global travel industry, has reported an expanded three-year partnership with Far Eastern Air Transport, opening a wider variety of travel options within Taiwan and internationally. Established in 1957, Far Eastern Air Transport operates services from Taiwan to Southeast Asia, South Korea and Palau. The company is currently […]

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose 5.9% in October 2017 compared to the year-earlier period. This was a slowdown from the 9.2% annual growth recorded in September 2017 but still exceeded the average annual growth rate of 3.2%

Liebherr-Aerospace officially has opened on November 30th, 2017 its new liaison office in Hamburg’s Center of Applied Aeronautical Research (Zentrum fuer Angewandte Luftfahrtforschung, ZAL). The office of the Liebherr-Aerospace liaison team is now closer to the facilities of Airbus in Hamburg (Germany), and will enable the engineering and R&D teams of Liebherr and the aircraft

Commsoft’s MRO IT system, OASES, has been chosen by new Cypriot airline, Tus Airways (Tus Air). Designed by engineers for engineers, OASES is one of the most successful aviation engineering and maintenance systems. Easy to use whilst being functionally highly sophisticated, it is structured in a modular format to allow for scalability and Tus Air

Sabre Corporation, technology provider to the global travel industry, has entered into a new distribution agreement with Aviation Services Mongolia (ASM) to distribute the Sabre global distribution system (GDS) in Mongolia. In tandem with this, ASM has successfully converted Air Market – Mongolia’s largest travel agency – to the Sabre GDS. With the implementation effective

Smiths Detection has reported that Narita International Airport Corporation in Japan has ordered 20 high-speed CTX 9800 DSi™ explosives detection systems (EDS) for hold-baggage screening. Narita is the main international airport in Japan, handling around 50% of the country’s international passenger traffic and 60% of its international air-cargo traffic, and has collaborated with Smiths Detection

AerData, a Boeing subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Montrose Global Aircraft Leasing Limited (MGALL) to support their existing fleet of 45 aircraft and accounting systems with AerData’s Corporate Management System (CMS) hosted solution. “We are looking to grow, and CMS will allow us to do that,” said Nick Brice, Montrose Global Technical director. MGALL

Icelandic WOW air has selected AMOS as their preferred MRO software solution. As a cost-conscious LCC, the airline has opted for the open source and licence-free SQLPostgre database, in combination with Swiss-AS’ AMOS Operation Services (AOS), which covers the application and database server administration. Currently the project team is successfully carrying out tests to run

Commsoft has welcomed UK-based leasing and charter airline, Titan Airways, to the fast-growing global OASES community. OASES combines a very high level of technical sophistication with an intuitive user interface and is structured in a modular format to allow for flexibility and scalability. To support its mixed Airbus and Boeing fleet, Titan Airways has selected

Qantas has released, that it will operate the world’s first bio-fuel flight between the United States and Australia. The Los Angeles to Melbourne flight will take place early next year, in collaboration with World Fuel Services and Altair Fuels, and will see Qantas’ new Dreamliner being powered by Brassica Carinata (carinata), a non-food, industrial type