The former head of flight operations at FastJet, Capt Ali Hammoud, has told students at a UK university that Africa is preparing for a “big aviation boom”.
A report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has revealed the locator-beacon battery in the flight data recorder (FDR) had passed its expiration date, an oversight that later triggered a fleet-wide check by the airline.
UK long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic is launching a trial with Sony Mobile Communications to test how new wearable technology can help improve the airline’s maintenance and engineering processes.
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Ltd’s (MAEL) has been granted EASA’s Part M Subpart G approval as a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO).
UK long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic is launching a trial with Sony Mobile Communications to test how new wearable technology can help improve the airline’s maintenance and engineering processes.
Lord Corp.—which makes vibration, motion and noise-control equipment—has signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Satair Group for its commercial fixed-wing product line.
Jet Aviation Basel - well known in the Middle East for its completions expertise on VIP aircraft - has made two key leadership changes to its completions sales organisation.
Tyrolean Airways’ maintenance arm Tyrolean Technik was re-established as a separate company, effective March 1, as a result of the reorganization of Austrian Airlines Group.
An ambitious Emiratisation target of 50% by the end of 2015 has been announced by Abu Dhabi Airports on the sidelines of Tawdheef, currently taking place at ADNEC under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of culture, Youth and Community Development.
Southwest Airlines is investigating why a required inspection interval in its routine maintenance program was left out of its maintenance tracking system, causing it to miss deadlines for checking backup hydraulic systems on 128 Boeing 737s.
South Africa's AVIC International Flight Training Academy (AIFA) at George has been stepping up its fleet as it has welcomed an increasingly international cohort of students from Asia and across Africa.
