Inside MRO

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways has had to cope with several major problems in recent years. How is its MRO operation faring?

Avianca taking steps to add MRO capabilities in conjunction with service expansion and alliance with United and Copa.

Avionics suppliers are ready, but will operators flying in U.S. or European airspace be able to meet the regulatory deadlines for ADS-B Out?

These companies are innovating their brazing product and service portfolios to meet customer demand.

How aircraft maintenance hangars in areas with extreme weather and seismic activity are built to provide safer, more comfortable working environments for MRO staff.

Canada's Transportation Safety Board calls for fatigue regulation, improved safety management systems.

Lessors own about half of the commercial aviation aircraft fleet, so is it a surprise their influence on PMA and digitized records is increasing?

These companies are adding new MRO facilities and capabilities in Asia as demand for airline service expands.

Ryannair, Wizz Air, Eurowings, Wow Air and Norwegian approach aftermarket work differently, despite their similarities.

The air cargo market is robust, but the market for used aircraft that can be converted is tight.

What are the legal considerations of this new Big Data environment and will it shift the risk- allocation landscape?

Everyone in aviation wishes all aircraft part records were digitized, but getting there is tough.

Aerospace and defense industry one of highest in planning to integrate blockchain into their systems.

IATA says agreement will lead to greater competition for MRO work.

Chinese leasing companies learn to plan better, now looking at engines, widebodies.

The new Brazilian Civil Aviation Regulation No. 65 replaces the correlating section previously found in the Brazilian Regulation of Aeronautical Homologation.

Mid-life assets and mid-size airframes are both hot topics in the aviation industry. In both cases, the market is keenly interested in the middle.

“The reality is this is a big deal for U.S. aerospace manufacturing because what happens in March 2019 is that the United Kingdom will no longer have a regulatory regime under the European Union.”

Should aviation maintenance-technician training correlate to testing? An aviation rulemaking advisory committee working group tasked with developing a new Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) Airman Certification Standard thought so.

A notice of proposed rulemaking justified the mandate based on the letter’s long-time existence as “an essential part of the application process.”

It’s pretty clear that the target of everything done by industry or agency should be somehow connectible to improving or maintaining safety.

Finding chip debris is fluids, fast defect measurement, remote collaboration.

Boeing Global Services might be ahead of pace to get to $50 billion in revenues in the next 5-10 years.

MROs see cold spray as a breakthrough technique thanks to its benefits over traditional metal repair processes.

Airlines weigh the benefits of exchanging a whole engine or engine modules to reduce maintenance downtime.