Bombardier Aerospace today announced the start of production at its transitional facility in Morocco.

Bahraini maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider Gulf Technics is considering component repair to supplement its multi-million-dollar spares inventory, which ST Aerospace has helped manage and support since 2011. The MRO provider recently started offering Airbus and Embraer airframe maintenance services and plans to build a two-bay widebody hangar at Bahrain International Airport in Muharraq.

The Airbus A350 XWB programme has received a European Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) award of the Engine Type Certification of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB turbofan. This certification covers Trent XWB engines which will power the A350-800 and A350-900 variants. A higher thrust version of the Trent XWB is currently under development for the A350-1000.

Turkish Technic and Nordwind Airlines have signed an agreement for APU maintenance.

Etihad Airways has opened a line maintenance base at Singapore's Changi International Airport, the carrier's eighth outside Abu Dhabi.

Ethiopian is to host the African Aviation 22nd Annual MRO Conference and Exhibition in Addis Ababa from 25 to 27 February 2013.

As airlines there increase in size, it is natural that they leverage their scale to gain efficiencies. That comes from both purchasing power and the desire to bring higher-technology maintenance, repair and overhaul capability in-house—or at least in the region.

Sanad Aero Solutions the Mubadala Aerospace engines and components financing and leasing solutions company, is expanding its relationship with Abu Dhabi National Leasing (ADNL), the wholly owned lease financing arm of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) to develop a global spares platform.