Timco's FeatherWeight lavatories have been selected by an airline as part of a cabin reconditioning project for its Boeing 767 fleet. Facilities

VAS Aero Services appointed Andrew Dudgeon as CEO. Dudgeon previously served as CEO of Rolls-Royce Australasia.

Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines powering All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 fleet has completed 4,000 flying hours in five months of revenue service with 99.9% dispatch reliability. Less than one in 1,000 flights have experienced a delayed departure due to an engine issue.

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Fokker Services signed an agreement with seat manufacturer Acro to be the exclusive reseller of lightweight seats for the Fokker 50, 70 and 100 and the Dash 8 aircraft. It also won a five-year Abacus contract from Nigerian airline Aero for its Dash 8 Q-300 aircraft.

HAECO explores new areas to meet changing industry needs.

How much of your maintenance is contracted out? Gibbs: Cathay Pacific outsources all of its maintenance, with the exception of line maintenance outside Hong Kong. So line maintenance in Hong Kong is with Haeco [see Haeco article on pg. xx], and heavy [airframe] maintenance is pretty much with Haeco or its subsidiary Taeco [Taikoo (Xiamen) Aircraft Engineering Co. Ltd.] in mainland China. We have occasionally used other providers, but not for the past five years. A lot of the work is being done in Xiamen, particularly cabin reconfiguration.

AirVault added several new members to its advisory board. Ron Utecht will advise the company, using his experience from his former role as CEO, president and COO of Timco and former senior VP of maintenance and engineering for United Airlines. AirVault also added James Brunke and Peter Bull to the advisory team.