The Farnborough Airshow livened up Tuesday with a flurry of new aircraft orders, including two big A320neo deals with Asian low-cost carriers. But if any themes are emerging from this show, it’s about Airbus and Boeing testing the airline appetites for larger variants of new aircraft; and also about OEMs securing long-term support service agreements.
Predicting a jump in demand by airlines for support services as the world’s fleets expand over the next 20 years, Airbus has created dedicated business units for maintenance, training, operations and upgrades.
Alpha Aviation Academy, an aviation training provider and currently the largest Multi-crew Pilot License (MPL) facility in the region, is set to participate in the Arab Aviation Summit 2016 taking place in Jordan on December 5th.
France has honoured TAV Group CEO Sani Şener with l'Ordre national de la Légion d'Honneur (The National Order of the Legion of Honour), which is the highest French order.
GE Aviation has a business backlog of $154 billion and expects to deliver more than 2,800 large commercial engines this year, the company said on the eve of the Farnborough Airshow.
The former executive vice president of Qatar Airways Executive and managing director, Middle East and Asia at Gama Aviation, Dubai, Dave Edwards has joined Synergy Aviation.
Airways Aviation, which provides crews to the Middle East, is launching CREW, a comprehensive global aviation recruitment, screening and training programme to support the aviation industry as it tackles the increasingly challenging task of pilot recruitment and retention.
The secretary general of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dr. Fang Liu, is on an official visit to South Africa, the first official visit to the country since 1944.
Royal Jordanian President/CEO Captain Suleiman Obeidat attended the graduation of the first group that took the leadership program RJ launched last November to improve employees' skills and to tap into RJ's expertise to the benefit of the regional and global airline industry.
The Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) has appointed Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) CEO, Thabani Mthiyane, to its executive committee.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued a supplemental type certificate (STC) to Hamburg-based MRO provider Lufthansa Technik to install Inmarsat’s GX Aviation Ka-band antenna on Lufthansa’s Airbus A320 family aircraft.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft’s Authorized Service Facility (ASF), SAMCO Aircraft Maintenance, has received its CSeries aircraft Part 145 base maintenance approval from the Civil Aviation Authority, The Netherlands.
Thirteen Nigerian Aerodrome safety inspectors have been trained by the Singapore Civil Aviation Academy, the first time a programme of its type has been held in Nigeria.
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow, an MRO branch of Volga-Dnepr Group, has been awarded a Russian Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) 285 certificate to perform maintenance on Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft.
