Aviation Week MRO

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Aviation Week reports from the show floor at MRO Americas 2022 on the show’s biggest news announcements and trends.
MRO Americas

By Sean Broderick
Supporting more flights, a long-idled fleet, and rising new-aircraft production rates could be too much for the commercial supply chain to handle.
Supply Chain

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Airlines and aviation maintenance schools dominated this year's competition, while women and non-U.S. teams boosted their presence at the event.
MRO Americas

By Keith Mwanalushi
North American suppliers and MROs are increasingly turning to USM to deliver cost savings to customers.
Supply Chain

News briefs from MRO Americas 2022.
MRO Americas

Kenneth Waugh, Coopesa’s CEO, talks with Aviation Week’s Lee Ann Shay on the MRO Americas show floor on April 28 in Dallas about the Costa Rica MRO’s new 737 conversion program.
MRO Americas

By Victoria Moores
Ethiopian Airlines has joined the Brown Condor Initiative (BCI), which aims to make it easier for North American carriers to access maintenance
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Ann Shay, Sean Broderick, James Pozzi
Aviation Week’s aftermarket editors gather in Dallas to discuss what they saw at MRO Americas and how it is reshaping the way they think about the industry.
MRO Americas

By Alex Derber
Services was the OEM's most profitable segment in the first three months of 2022.
Services & Support

By James Pozzi
New terms extend on contracts signed in 2018.
MRO Americas

By Lee Ann Shay
Three industry veterans honored with awards for their career contributions.
MRO Americas

By James Pozzi
The facility will be the fifth at its Tarbes, France site and the first sole engine shop.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Russian operators have seized 222 commercial and business-jet aircraft that belong to lessors, taking advantage of a government edict that permitted them to re-register the airframes to take ownership and get them on the country’s registry, an Aviation Week analysis shows.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Companies throughout the commercial aerospace supply chain are re-examining everything from how they forecast demand to what they can handle in-house as part of broad efforts to mitigate increasing risk as passenger airline activity ramps up.
MRO Americas

By Joe Anselmo
Expect the booming cargo conversion market to continue for a few years, but new challenges exist.
MRO Americas

Single-aisle aircraft are projected to hold the lion’s share of MRO demand in North America over the next decade, according to the Aviation Week
MRO Americas

By James Pozzi
The base maintenance facility will lead to the creation of 200 new jobs by 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Ann Shay
A look at how more sustainable aircraft should impact the civil aviation fleet and MRO expenditures over the next decade.
MRO Americas

By Alex Derber
Etihad Engineering has boosted its access to used serviceable material via a deal with Dutch parts company Touchdown Aviation (TDA). Under the deal
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
SAS Scandinavian Airlines will be the launch customer of a product developed by the Airbus-led Digital Alliance venture that targets predictive maintenance and other data-driven operational efficiency drivers, signing up for the partnership’s Skywise Predictive Maintenance Alliance (SPMA) offering.
MRO Americas

By Sean Broderick
Boeing is tapping 737 MAX subassembly supplier Spirit AeroSystems to expand its aftermarket support of its newest narrowbody aircraft family, launching spares pools for structural parts that Spirit will support through its repair capabilities.
MRO Americas

By James Pozzi
Listen in as Mick Adams, CEO of STS Aviation Services, reflects on his career after being awarded Aviation Week’s Lifetime Achievement Award in MRO.
MRO Americas

By Victoria Moores
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Company (GAMECO) has cut its first Boeing 767-300BCF cargo door, while Chinese-owned lessor CDB Aviation has separately taken delivery of its first freighter.
Maintenance & Training

By Lee Ann Shay
Spirit AeroSystems signs a long-term agreement with GAMECO to become its authorized service center in China.
MRO

By Lee Ann Shay
While AAR is probably more known for aftermarket MRO and used parts, its OEM parts supply business is a growing part of its portfolio.
Supply Chain