Delta will purchase 11,000 Microsoft Surface 2 tablets for its pilots

Technologically advanced components may help drive down maintenance costs on the newest aircraft, but they also radically alter the cost-benefit calculation of whether an airline should stock its own spares or participate in a pool.

Air France-KLM and Rolls-Royce have not yet reached agreement on the terms and conditions under which the Franco-Dutch group’s MRO arm will be allowed to perform maintenance on the Trent XWB engines.

I began my career in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry as an export sales manager for a European missile manufacturer (now MBDA). It was a somewhat unusual career move for a business school graduate with no engineering background. Today, even fewer graduates have A&D high on their lists when they look for jobs as sales or marketing managers. This is, after all, an industry built by engineers, and its reputation is based primarily on products and the technological innovations that underpin them.

EasyJet plans for MRO transition

Sequestration is wiping out U.S. military equipment via deferred MRO

By around 2020, the U.K. will have almost completely renewed its air transport and refueling fleet.

One size does not fit all in the global Boeing fleet