Pratt & Whitney has signed an exclusive eight-year maintenance services agreement with Transaero Airlines to provide engine overhauls on 11 PW4000-112s.
AAR has entered into a general terms agreement with Liebherr-Aerospace to provide landing-gear maintenance, repair and overhaul services for Embraer E-170s, E-175s, E-190s and E-195s.
The Carlyle Group’s portfolio company Dynamic Precision Group will acquire eight aerospace component-fabrication and machining facilities from Unison Engine Components, a subsidiary of GE Aviation.
JetBlue Airways COO Rob Maruster said FAA has a “credibility” problem regarding the implementation of the satellite-based NextGen air traffic control (ATC) system, leading to a loss of confidence among US airlines that worry expensive investments in NextGen equipment won’t “pay off.”
Bombardier Aerospace has been conducting high-speed taxi testing with its new CSeries aircraft in preparation for an anticipated first flight in the next few days.
When Alex de Gunten took over as executive director of the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) 10 years ago, Latin America “was seen as an appendix of the world from an aviation perspective."
Air Malta has more than halved its losses for the first quarter of FY2013/14, narrowing a deficit of €10.6 million ($14 million) for the year-ago period to €4.9 million for the April-June period this year.
Aeroflot has created a subsidiary named Taiga Airline, which was created by merging two Russian Far Eastern airlines, Vladivostok Avia and SAT Airlines.
Spring Airlines has applied to launch a low-cost carrier (LCC) in Japan, becoming the first Chinese carrier to set up a joint venture (JV) outside China.
Hard on the heels of its memorandum of understanding (MOU) to help modernize China’s air traffic management (ATM) system, Airbus has signed another MOU to extend its cooperation in aviation safety with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for a further five years.
Lithuanian start-up Air Lituanica has taken delivery of an Embraer E-175 from Embraer subsidiary ECC Leasing, marking the second addition to its fledgling fleet.
CFM International has started ground testing on its LEAP-1A engine designated to power the Airbus A320neo. The LEAP-1A is the first of CFM’s LEAP family of engines to begin a test program.
Icelandair is tapping a new Canadian air traffic agreement to add new links from Reykjavik to Edmonton and Vancouver in 2014, which it will serve using three additional Boeing 757s.
Negotiations toward a “potential combination” between UK-based BBA Aviation and “certain parts” of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) have collapsed without a deal.
The world’s airlines posted a cumulative second-quarter net profit of $2.2 billion, a major improvement from the $622 million net loss reported in the year-ago quarter.
Scandinavian low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle is expanding its long-haul network with the addition of Boeing 787 services to Los Angeles, Oakland-San Francisco and Orlando, plus a new Copenhagen-New York route, from spring 2014.
