Airbus and Copenhagen-headquartered Satair in February plan to open their first joint warehouse, a facility in Singapore. Both companies already operate their own spares and sales offices in Singapore, but this new joint facility will consolidate their operations to gain synergies and triple the number of spare parts available, Marcus Jungermann, Airbus’s vice president-material and logistics operations, tells Aviation Week on the sidelines of MRO Europe in London.

GE Aviation, expanding on an existing program, is developing a used life-limited parts (LLPs) history designation that will certify a General Electric powerplant’s most critical parts as being operated amid the most optimal configurations. Under the TRUEngine LLP program—announced yesterday in London at MRO Europe—LLPs that are maintained to the manufacturer’s standards and operated with all so-called influencing parts maintained to those standards will be stamped TRUEngine LLP-certified.

Stagnation in Europe’s airline industry will be a drag on the region’s aircraft aftermarket, which will grow slower than the world average over the next decade despite measurable expansion in Eastern Europe, forecasts revealed at Aviation Week’s MRO Europe conference.

Allegiant Air is slowly returning MD-80s to service with compliant evacuation slides, and remains on track to put all of its available MD-80s back into service by Oct. 1, the carrier says. The airline late last week grounded all 49 of its in-service MD-80s to inspect emergency slides after discovering that its inspection intervals did not comply with slide manufacturer Zodiac’s standards. By the end of Sept. 23, the airline had 32 MD-80s back in service, and expected to be caught up on its flight schedule by the beginning of service today.

Allegiant Air expects to need at least another week before its flight schedule is disruption-free and its entire MD-80 fleet is available, as it works to get the model’s evacuation slides in compliance with manufacturer’s recommendations.

Calling for a retrofit to certain Honeywell flight deck display units

Boeing is aiming to make performing routine maintenance and diagnosing aircraft issues faster and easier for airline technicians with a suite of new mobile applications for iPad.

Mauritania Airlines has signed a five-year integrated services contract with Sabena Technics for spare parts for its fleet of Boeing B737 CG & NG aircraft until 2018.