Chuck Grieve is an award-winning writer and editor with more than 40-years experience in consumer, corporate, trade and technical journalism on a global scale.
Variously based in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Far East, he has covered stories across a range of industries including aviation, logistics, power generation, oil and gas, and corporate law. He brings to the MRO brief a breadth of technical understanding combined with business and cultural insights. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Internal Communication.
Chuck is MRO editor of both Arabian and African Aerospace magazines and part of the Show Business dailies team.
Geopolitical tensions on the subcontinent have spilled into civil aerospace, with Air India looking to “adjust plans” and shift maintenance work on its widebody aircraft away from Turkish Technic over Turkiye’s support for Pakistan.
Africa is not blind to what must happen in MRO for its civil aviation to reach full potential. Recent moves by several airlines are promising, but more is needed.
A scandal last spring involving faked documentation of aircraft engine parts led the MRO industry to question whether blockchain technology would prevent this from happening, and if so, why it is not more widely used.
