Bombardier Aerospace is continuing to enhance its worldwide aftermarket support network with a new Regional Support Office (RSO) and parts depot in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Aerostar S.A. has won a contract from Starbow of Ghana to carry out 'C'checks on its fleet of four BAe 146 146 regional jetliners.

As airlines continue to watch engine expenses, MROs are being asked by their customers to design customized approaches to service and provide material solutions. The conversation is forcing MRO vendors to search for answers outside their facilities.

Russia's Nordwind Airlines has signed a C Check maintenance contract for its two Airbus A321 Aircraft with Turkish Technic.

If an airline could mix the petabytes of performance data that aircraft generate with Big Data analysis—and control the weather—that could be operational nirvana. Then fuse that with maximizing the customer experience—and save millions or billions of dollars—and you have near-utopia.

Until the mid-1990s, nearly 75% of all airline maintenance was performed in-house. In part, that was due to lack of credible alternatives, but it was also a vestige of the pre-deregulation period when maintenance and operations stood as essential and equal pillars of an airline's success, with cost being a far less important element than it is today.

Boeing and South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced that they will conduct joint research on ways to incorporate titanium powder into industrial manufacturing processes

The future of an efficient aviation aftermarket depends on fast, accurate, inexpensive data transfer. That means electronic messaging in standard, machine-readable formats. The industry is making progress, with major airlines and OEMs leading the way. The best small companies are adapting, and many more will need to do so.