Maintenance & Training

By Bill Carey
Boeing’s new recommendation that 737 MAX pilots undergo simulator training before they return to flying the airliner justifies moves by major simulator manufacturers to ramp up production.
Air Transport

The Sanad Group has appointed Troy Lambeth as CEO and Mansoor Janahi as deputy CEO.
Maintenance & Training

Currently grounded, First Officer Tom Peaford, asks is it ok to not be ok? Why airlines must do more, now more than ever, to support the well-being of their pilots.
Maintenance & Training

By Guy Norris
Boeing’s EcoDemonstrator initiative is part of a greater focus on advanced operational efficiency and long-term sustainable growth.
Sustainability

By Thierry Dubois
While dismantling of two Airbus A380s is underway and A380 production is winding down, Airbus’ hopes for a secondhand market dim.
Air Transport

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced changes to its Strategic Leadership Team and corporate structure. The changes will enable IATA to better serve its customers and stakeholders as the association implements a strategy focusing on its core competencies of standard-setting and adoption, advocacy, and services and products.
Maintenance & Training

Thales's integrated touchscreen has become the first product of its kind in the world to achieve certification by the European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) for use in commercial aviation.
Maintenance & Training

Boeing today announced that its Board of Directors has named current chairman, David L. Calhoun, as chief executive officer and President, effective January 13, 2020.
Maintenance & Training

By Michael Bruno, Guy Norris, Molly McMillin, Sean Broderick
Production resumption is not linked to getting MAX flying again.
Air Transport

By Henry Canaday
Data sharing, the MAX return and a labor shortage pose challenges in 2020.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
From environmental pressures to transformational technologies, significant changes lie ahead for the aerospace and defense industry.
Aerospace

By Molly McMillin
Clay Lacy Aviation is performing 10-year inspections for Embraer’s Phenom business jets at Embraer service centers at Van Nuys Airport and McClellan-Palomar Airport.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Piper Aircraft has begun the application process for its 2020 Apprenticeship Program.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Etihad Aviation Training and Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University of Science and Technology have partnered on a three-year study to explore game-based learning for the next generation of airline pilots.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Lockheed tests ground-launched long-range missile; Japan to keep making F-35s; Space Fence nears start of ops; NATO training center opens
Defense

Comair has announced the appointment of Wrenelle Stander as Group CEO, effective immediately. Glenn Orsmond, previously joint-CEO, has been appointed as the CEO of Comair’s Airline Division. This forms part of the ongoing restructuring at Comair.
Maintenance & Training

Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO Tewolde GebreMariam has been recognised as ‘Airline Executive of the Year’ at the annual Global Aviation Awards for Excellence organised by Centre for Aviation (CAPA) in Malta on 5th December 2019.
Maintenance & Training

The Aeronautical Repair Station Association’s (ARSA) chief lobbyist blasted a US House bill that would crack down on foreign aircraft repair stations, describing the effort as a “new front in the longstanding, ongoing union war against contract maintenance.”
Maintenance & Training

By Lee Ann Shay
Ted Colbert talks about data, digital innovations, the NMA and the MAX in this exclusive interview.
MRO

Austrian aviation authority Austro Control has put Ryanair subsidiary LaudaMotion under increased supervision after discovering maintenance irregularities.
Maintenance & Training

Saudi Arabia’s Sky Prime, the largest private aviation operator in the Middle East, has signed contracts to collaborate with Etihad Aviation Group’s engineering and aviation training divisions.
Maintenance & Training

By Sean Broderick
Munich-based MTU Aero Engines is projecting high-single-digit increases in its key commercial engine production and MRO segments in 2020, continuing current-year trends that point to steady new-production and aftermarket services demand.
Maintenance & Training

Lufthansa Technik Sofia (LTSF) has additional growth potential in Europe’s MRO market as it works to build a solid workforce, the company’s CEO said.
Maintenance & Training

Lufthansa Technik Sofia (LTSF) has additional growth potential in Europe’s MRO market as it works to build a solid workforce, the company’s CEO said.
Maintenance & Training

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee has requested the inspector general of the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to launch an audit into FAA’s oversight of domestic aeronautical repair stations.
Maintenance & Training