Maintenance & Training

BAA Training has signed a landmark five-year agreement with Qatar Airways Group, to deliver Multi-Crew Pilot License (MPL) training for up to 150 cadets annually.

Delta Material Services is tearing down a former EgyptAir Airbus A220-300.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has re-elected Hamad Salem Al Muhairi, Assistant Director, General of the Aviation Security Affairs Sector at the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), as Chairperson of the ICAO Aviation Security Panel for the third consecutive year.

Robert Cooney, Delta Air Lines’ director fleet engineering, delivered these opening remarks April 8 at Aviation Week Network’s MRO Americas.

Republic Airways is the first airline to implement Collins Aerospace’s Ascentia Repeaters application.

Flyadeal has appointed European airline executive Rogier van Enk as chief commercial and customer officer.

Loft Dynamics has partnered with Alaska Airlines to reimagine the legacy full-flight simulator using virtual-reality technology.

Industry stakeholders suggest AI could help with the shortage in skilled talent in the MRO sector.

MTU Maintenance plans to add new capabilities for the CFM International Leap and GE Aerospace GEnx engines at its business in Texas.

JetZero is projecting a 30% reduction in the amount of time its in-development blended-wing body aircraft would need to be taken out of service for maintenance.

Pratt & Whitney boosted GTF MRO output by 30% in 2024 and expects similar results in 2025 through new announcements.

Lufthansa Technik expands a quick cabin fresh service to the Americas.

Porter Airlines is leasing a hangar in Halifax to provide dedicated maintenance capacity for its E195-E2s and Dash 8-400s.

L3Harris Technologies has sold the commercial arm of its business to U.S. private investor TJC, and been rebranded as Acron Aviation.

The strong post-COVID-19 travel recovery has been generating expectations for accommodations in all cabin classes.

India’s Melstarr Aviations Tech has signed an MoU with Vector Technorium for the design-build of Melstarr’s proposed greenfield Flight Training Organization (FTO).

Fiji Airways has extended its component and line maintenance support through new deals with AFI KLM E&M and Heston MRO.

Aegean Technics is seeing success and growing workforce pipeline a year after its launch.

Korean Air is on track to secure four spare GE Aerospace GE9X engines and four GEnx-1Bs for its Boeing 777-9 and 787-10 order to enhance the fleet’s resilience.

China Aviation Supplies Holding Co. (CAS) and Informa Markets' Aviation Week Network (AWN) signed a long-term strategic cooperation agreement to create an MRO Greater China Expo in Beijing.

The Aviation Technician Education Council is targeting several barriers that are slowing the pipeline of a future qualified MRO workforce.

Simaero has announced the relocation of a modern Embraer E190 Full-Flight Simulator from the China Southern Airlines training centre to its Johannesburg facility.

FAI Aviation Group is advancing its fleet renewal program while shuttering its Berlin maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) location.

Kazakhstan´s Air Astana Group, which includes Air Astana and its LCC subsidiary FlyArystan, wants to build out its fleet to 63 aircraft by the end of 2025.

Oman-based LCC Salam Air has signed an MOU with Bahrain-based Gulf Air to explore maintenance capability that does not exist in its home country.