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.
British Airways selected International Aero Engines V2500 powerplants for its eight new Airbus A320 aircraft and awarded IAE a long-term maintenance agreement. CFM and IAE both competed for the engine contract. British Airways is scheduled to receive the new A320s between 2008 and 2010. The carrier operates 67 short-haul Airbus aircraft--V2500 engines power 58 of them and CFM engines power the other nine. -Leeann Tegtmeier
Air China ordered the CFM56-5B engine to power its new fleet of 24 Airbus A321s, to be delivered between 2008 and 2012. The contract includes 48 engines and five spares worth $345 million at list prices (US$6.5 million per engine). CFM's contract actually will climb because the companies also announced that Air China plans to sign a 15-year maintenance agreement with CFM for the repair and overhaul of its new engines, along with a 15-year material agreement that will provide Air China with new, used and repaired material.
Air Canada Technical Services expects to close this quarter on its 80% stake worth US$44.7 million in Aeroman, the MRO in El Salvador owned by the TACA Group. Aeroman said it started evaluating ways to expand its four-line MRO operation two years ago and decided to align with another maintenance business that also is part of the Airbus MRO Network.
