Aviation Week MRO

U.S. maintenance provider AAR plans to close its facility at Duluth, Minnesota by late July following a decrease in work related to the impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Within the past three years, British engine maker Rolls-Royce has been forced to pay almost $1 billion to settle a multinational bribery investigation

A roundup of aviation aftermarket news from the week of May 17-23, 2020.

Neil Russell, chief operating officer at Aero Norway, discusses the engine MRO acquiring more engine models and looking at remote video for inspection work during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

C Cubed Aerospace hopes to receive an FAA supplemental type certificate for its Airbus A320 passenger-to-freighter conversion by the end of 2020, and another following not too far behind for its A321 conversion. The timing could be good given changes in the cargo-conversion dynamic.

The COVID-19 pandemic could be the push the industry needs to get the FAA to update outdated aviation maintenance training regulations. The pandemic

India applied some of the most severe virus-retarding restrictions to both aviation and its economy generally.

With coronavirus taking an increasing toll in Brazil, the country’s airlines have had to follow their peers around the world and ground progressively more aircraft.

The climbing robot will enable airlines and MROs to detect aircraft damage remotely through non-destructive testing data.

The decision last autumn of GECAS and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to launch a Boeing 777-300ERSF passenger-to-freighter conversion program is

Airlines are positioned to save $1.75 billion in MRO costs between now and 2022 by tapping engines on idled aircraft instead of sending powerplants in

Grounding aircraft when bookings collapsed for fear of coronavirus was a painful but easy decision for airlines. Now come the hard decisions, as

China Southern Airlines is planning to raise CNY16 billion ($2.2 billion) by issuing convertible bonds, mainly for the acquisition of aircraft.

A roundup of aviation aftermarket news from the week of May 10-16, 2020.

Anca Mihalache, VP Engine Trading at APOC Aviation, has been fielding questions from customers and lessors about the engine market, which has switched

The advent of 3D printing is a concept that has been increasingly deployed in the MRO industry in the past five years, albeit at a considerably slower

As owners of their equipment, lessors are a part of the aviation industry with much to gain from data analysis.

Europe’s domestic commercial flights are down 90% from January 1 to April 30, according to Radarbox. The traffic decrease due to COVID-19 hit Magnetic

The past 20 years have seen the narrowbody engine segment dominated by two models, but in the latter parts of the second decade, their successor

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada expanded its “simplified package freighter” conversion program to its legacy Dash 8s, announcing Transport Canada approval and a launch customer.

Dave Lange of FedEx Express talks with Lee Ann Shay about changes in cargo operations, including flying international charter relief missions, during

Air cargo markets are under stress because the collapse in passenger flights with belly cargo leaves a shortage of cargo capacity even with plunging

Dave Lange of FedEx Express talks with Lee Ann Shay about changes in cargo operations, including flying international charter relief missions, during

SIA Engineering (SIAEC) has remained profitable, even as mass aircraft groundings and disruptions plague the Singapore air hub amid the COVID-19 crisis.

A jump in retirements of older passenger aircraft linked to the coronavirus pandemic will boost not just legacy conversion programs such as the Boeing 767, but also emerging ones, including the Airbus A321, Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) president Rich Corrado said.