Workforce & Training

By Tom Pleasant
The aviation industry is investing heavily in sustainable aviation fuel, but will its use cause headaches for MRO providers?
Emerging Technologies

By Rob Hall
High parts demand and low USM supply are causing parts shortages that are increasing shop visit and component repair turnaround times.
Supply Chain

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
American Airlines’ vice president of technical services shares the carrier’s approach to solving workforce and supply chain challenges.
MRO

By Keith Mwanalushi
The training is aimed at reducing risks associated with post maintenance check flights.
Workforce & Training

Salil Gupte, president of Boeing India, discusses the country's aviation growth and the importance of ramping up MRO to support the expanding Indian fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Prachi Patel
How Malaysia Airlines is strategically diversifying its maintenance capabilities and embarking on digitalization intiatives.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
A new chapter of Women In Aviation International, co-founded by an Aviation Week staffer, is hosting several MRO-focused Girls In Aviation Day events.
Workforce & Training

Sam Sprules
Recruitment specialist AeroProfessional urges industry to invest in recruitment and streamlined training to avoid a workforce crisis.
Workforce & Training

By James Pozzi
CEO Zilvinas Lapinskas discusses the Lithuanian MRO’s recent hangar announcements.
Supply Chain

By James Pozzi
The engine MRO provider adds further on-site capability at its Chinese operation.
Workforce & Training

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
A new software platform aims to help aftermarket companies optimize technical training and workforce planning.
Emerging Technologies

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The cargo carrier has donated a GE CF6 engine to Marshall University’s Aviation Maintenance Technology program, which launched last year.
Workforce & Training

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The first graduating class at the city’s recently opened A&P school will help fill high workforce demand in the Chicago area.
Workforce & Training

By Sean Broderick
Boeing needs more time to validate the risks of mechanics inadvertently leaving nacelle access doors unlatched and develop ways to prevent that from happening.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Christian Albertson
Aviation Week’s Commercial Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast projects North American MRO labor hours will have a less than 1% CAGR.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Christian Klein
ARSA is working to gather industry feedback on how the aftermarket uses electronic information for regulatory compliance.
Emerging Technologies

By Molly McMillin
Through 2042, the forecast projects a requirement in North America for 127,000 new pilots, 125,000 new technicians and 177,000 new cabin crew members.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By James Pozzi
2Excel Engineering is now certified for Part 147 training on two different aircraft types.
Workforce & Training

By P. Barry Butler
Programs are adapting to prepare students to work the advanced air mobility industry as engineers, air traffic controllers, pilots and more.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Alex Derber, Lindsay Bjerregaard
AAR’s new maintenance contract extension with United will drive construction of a new hangar and the addition of hundreds of jobs.
MRO

By Sean Broderick
Congress is readying new legislation that will guide how much the FAA spends over the next few years, while giving the agency an updated to-do list.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
A new Airbus initiative aims to help African airlines strengthen local maintenance capabilities and prepare for new-technology aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
AAM OEMs are beginning efforts to build technician training standards, but will there be enough time to do that before aircraft certification?
Workforce & Training

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
MRO companies are concerned about new recruits’ soft skills, but educators argue younger generations are facing unprecedented barriers to entry.
Workforce & Training

By Prachi Patel
Derby-based BCT Aviation Maintenance plans to bolster base and line maintenance services as it readies for post-COVID industry growth.
Services & Support