The TATA/Singapore Airlines joint venture startup Vistara has signed long-term Flight Hour Services Tailored Support Package (FHS-TSP) contracts with Airbus starting this year for its 20 A320s.
Flying Colours—the North American MRO, completion and refurbishment specialist—has been named by GE Aviation as an authorized line maintenance center for CF34-3 and CF34-8C engines.
Spirit AeroSystems’ Europe Repair Station in Prestwick, Scotland, has received FAA Part 145 Repair Station Certification to perform aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul.
The Flight Safety Foundation announced today that Dr. Harold O. Demuren had been recognized with the FSF-Boeing Aviation Safety Lifetime Achievement Award at its 67th annual International Air Safety Summit in Abu Dhabi
Oman Air has appointed Paul Gregorowitsch as its new CEO in a move hailed as “the start of a new chapter in the illustrious development, at local, regional and international levels, of the national carrier”, by its chairman Darwish bin Ismail bin Ali Al Balushi.
One of Volga-Dnepr Airlines' An-124-100 freighters has operated to five cities in Congo, Ghana, Mali, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast to deliver urgent equipment being used to help fight the outbreak of the Ebola virus in the region.
328 Support Services, which holds the type certificate for D328 jets and turboprops, has developed a major cockpit upgrade program for the aircraft, which it expects to be certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and FAA by late 2016.
Comair CEO, Erik Venter, was elected as the new chairman of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) at the industry body's 44th annual general assembly which was held in Mauritius this past weekend.
Aircraft maintenance will be healthy but continue to shift in the coming year. Volume should be up moderately and pricing relatively stable in 2015. Higher Asian prices should push some widebodies back to the US and flight-hour support will continue to grow, from OEMs, major MROs, traders and OEM-shop partnerships.
AJW Aviation and China Aviation Supplies Corp. (CASC) have signed a six-year contract to provide power-by-the-hour support to Qingdao Airlines’ Airbus A320s.
Baltic Ground Services, the international ground handling and aircraft fueling provider, has announced the extension of its ground handling agreement with Wizz Air.
