Workforce & Training

Remote inspections, virtual training and digital tools are gaining traction as a way to address maintenance challenges during COVID-19.

Like Singapore, Hong Kong is extraordinarily dependent on the international travel that has been cut most sharply in Asia-Pacific—and independent MROs

Brazilian low-cost carrier GOL recently improved its financial position, and one bright spot is its engines. Cristiano Mousinho Gomes, GOL airline’

Its new facility at the Roswell Air Center will take on new hires and provide MRO for the hundreds of aircraft already parked there due to COVID-19 and other factors.

The MRO center will bring new jobs to the airport alongside maintenance and overhaul expertise for a variety of regional aircraft types.

Since the mid 1980s, aerospace and defense executives have identified the hiring of a diversity of people— gender, age, and ethnicity—as having a corporate value and contribution to success. Over the last five years, there has been measurable, though subtle, improvement.

MRO providers in Asia are not seeing customers move their maintenance bookings forward, despite fleets being largely grounded because of the pandemic.

The industry has seen very conservative rates of retirement while hiring an increasing number of young people

The engine OEM is using virtual reality and remote collaboration tools to train engine maintainers and inspectors more efficiently.

The British School of Aviation (BSA) has gained approval from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA) to offer both face to face and online engineer

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As industry ranks are decimated, OEMs and top-tier companies already are worried about losing too many talented workers.

Aerospace companies are mapping strategies to meet both employee and business needs in an uncertain future.

How JAL Engineering is adjusting its maintenance operations to the COVID-19 pandemic while upgrading its capabilities.

Avinor Air Navigation Services is testing a drone traffic management system at the first two of 18 planned airport towers across Norway.

The COVID-19 pandemic is making addressing MRO workforce issues more important than ever.

The MRO is launching new workforce initiatives targeting underrepresented populations to prepare for the industry’s recovery.

The pandemic has been a catalyst for change, from accelerated digitalization to new training technologies.

Emerging technologies may be key in rebuilding a robust MRO workforce during industry recovery.

Digital aircraft are bringing more demand for the right kind of technicians to repair them.

Lufthansa Technik is adapting its training programs to cope with COVID-19 effects and short-time work, welcoming 240 new apprentices this month.

The knock-on effect of the collapse in passenger demand has become clearer in MRO providers’ second-quarter results, although the full severity of the

The OEM is releasing solutions for dealing with grounded aircraft, remote maintenance training and medevac conversions.

Pratt & Whitney will retrench around 400 jobs—or 20%—of its 2,000 employees in Singapore as demand for engine-related MRO has disappeared amid the COVID-19 pandemic.