Narrowbody airframe MRO accounts just over $25 million, or 54% of the total airframe MRO market that is worth an estimated $8.8 billion, based on TeamSAI November 2011 figures. And airframe services make up about 19% of all MRO work on narrowbody aircraft.

Eliminating duplicated maintenance required by different regulatory agencies could take out billions of dollars of maintenance and engineering work on leased aircraft when they transfer across borders. Given that 40% of the world's commercial aircraft fleet is leased, and that figure continues to climb, these costs if not corrected will grow with the expanding fleet.

Miguel Uribe, CEO, AeroMexico MRO We have announced a joint venture with Delta regarding MRO business. This JV will allow significant growth while maintaining the high quality airframe work that Aeromexico MRO is providing to its major clients: Delta for MD-80s, AeroMexico for Boeing 737s and AeroMexico Connect's Embraer ERJ-145.

Aircraft End-Of-Life Solutions has started the disassembly and dismantling of a Boeing 737-500 at Aviolanda. It is the first aircraft to be recycled by AELS at Woensdrecht Airport Business Park Aviolanda. AELS and Aviolanda will work in cooperation with Fokker Services to provide aircraft owners with an aircraft parking, maintenance and recycling solution all in one place.

Are your employees engaged? No, this isn't a question about marital status, it's a question about workplace commitment. It's about whether your employees are active, enthusiastic, contributing members of a team. If you suspect they aren't, this is an area worth your attention. Research by Gallup finds that businesses in the top quartile of their employee engagement studies experience 49% fewer safety incidents than bottom quartile organizations. In other words, by honing in on some key engagement criteria, organizations can potentially slice their incident rate in half.

Chromalloy added Daljinder Kaur to its team as sales and marketing manager of its U.K. operation in Nottingham. She previously was European business development manager at Trans World Alloys.

The availability of instructions for continued airworthiness (ICA) has pitted manufacturers against repair stations for years. Repair stations have pushed for greater access to ICAs, while manufacturers have carefully guarded what they deem to be proprietary information that they developed at great cost.

The Boeing 787, which entered service in September, is considered a fully e-enabled aircraft, generating and capturing more data than any airplane in Boeing's history. With millions of lines of code, and onboard computer servers connecting to airplane systems via fiber optics and ethernet, “it's like a computer with wings bolted on,” said one of our customers.