As executive editor of MRO and business aviation, Lee Ann Shay directs Aviation Week's coverage of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), including Inside MRO, and business aviation, including BCA.
She won the World Leadership Forum’s Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in 2009 (propulsion category) and in 2002 (maintenance category), and has been a finalist in other years. In 2017, Lee Ann won the Aerospace Media Awards' Best Future Tech submission.
She holds a B.A. in English and political science from Luther College and an M.A. in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.
The carrier’s base in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will perform the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) work and American expects to input 45 CFM56-5B engines per year after it sets up the capability.
The GEnx engines on the 13-hour flight, HU497, between Beijing and Chicago, were powered by a mix of jet fuel and a biofuel derived from used cooking oil.
