Gulf Air has graduated fourteen Bahraini Senior First Officers who successfully earned their fourth stripe after qualifying to become Gulf Air Captains.
It isn’t the most obvious connection in the world. However, the relationship between Lincoln-based Inzpire and the Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) appears to be going from strength-to-strength, as Alan Warnes recently discovered.
Alsim has announced the sale of an AL250 to Aviation Pilot Training, a flight school located in Cape Town, South Africa. The device will be delivered in the first quarter of 2019.
Mature-aircraft trader and lessor Vallair, which is the launch customer for the first Airbus A321 passenger-to-freight conversion, is actively seeking more A321s to join eight that it already has slated for conversion.
UK-based MRO provider Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has finalized the terms of its new ownership structure, with a transaction in which UK investment group Greybull Capital becomes the owner of the company.
Turkish Technic has grown its third-party maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) to 25% of its total revenue, up from 15% two years ago, through more efficient use of its existing facilities.
A newly released Aviation Week Intelligence Network 2019 Commercial Fleet and MRO Forecast, shows that the commercial air transport fleet, for which growth is underpinned by multiple macro-economic trends, will experience growth of 2.8% on deliveries of nearly 23,200 turbofan- and turboprop-powered aircraft over the coming decade.
Lessors AerCap, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and IBA Group are seeing concrete advances in the acceptance of digital aircraft records, which is one of several factors hampering smooth aircraft-lease transitions.
Executives from Airbus, Boeing and Embraer have told delegates at MRO Europe they are responding to customer demand by moving more heavily into the aftermarket, but plenty of competition remains.
Christian Suttner, the co-founder and managing partner of startup incubator Starburst, has predicted that drone-based aircraft maintenance inspections will go mainstream by 2020.
TAP Express CEO Valter Fernandes used the podium at MRO Europe in Amsterdam to call for action on long aviation lead times, saying the industry has lost its edge because innovation is too slow and expensive.
Ethiopian Maintenance & Engineering Services, part of the Ethiopian Airlines Group, has become the first MRO in Africa to repair GE Aviation’s GEnx engine, which powers the Boeing 787.
UK-based maintenance provider Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) said it has secured “significant” funding from its owner, Greybull Capital, after earlier reports that its future might be under threat.
