The successful co-location of the Middle East's aircraft interiors and MRO shows has led to both shows now running together on an annual basis.

Yemenia Airways has extended the component support contract it signed with AFI KLM E&M in 2005. This follows a thorough post-revolution review of the airlines contracts and commitments

Honeywell and Emirates have consolidated their partnership on avionics and mechanical component repair and overhaul support, by signing an agreement that extends until 2019.

When an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300ER completed a Los Angeles-Auckland flight in December, it was the first time an airline operated under 240-min. extended operations (ETOPS). But the new 240-min. limit is no longer the edge of the envelope—330 min. is now poised to become the new ETOPS gold standard—ever since last November when Boeing received type design authority from the FAA to offer a 330-min. ETOPS “option” on the General Electric GE90-powered 777 family.

The call by carriers to standardize composite training certification, techniques and material mounts by the minute, with the Boeing 787 an operational fait accompli, and the Airbus A350 waiting to take wing.

Pemco's 30 largest unsecured creditors are owed more than $12.2 million.

Air Canada’s worsening relationship with its unionized workers has prompted yet more scheduled strikes—this time by the carrier's mechanics, baggage handlers and cargo agents—but the federal government has again indicated it will intervene to stop any service disruptions.

Sabena Technics’ maintenance facility in Bordeaux, France, is in the process of performing substantial heavy check and repair work on two of Afriqiyah Airways’ Airbus A330 aircraft, which arrived at the MRO last week. Several aircraft in the Libyan operator’s fleet suffered damage during recent conflicts. Philippe Rochet, Sabena Technics’ EVP-airframe services, says the MRO sent a maintenance task force of 10 engineers to Libya to prepare the aircraft for ferry flights to Bordeaux.