Maintenance & Training

News about coatings, engine MRO and joint ventures in this month’s Contracts and News Briefs.

Landing gear MRO providers are adding new capabilities, facilities and certifications to meet growing demand.

Etihad Airways is advertising for its future cabin crew.

The hangar at Xiamen Xiang’an International Airport will count 12 widebody and six narrowbody maintenance bays, plus two separate painting bays.

The equities analyst Jefferies believes that improving widebody flying hours and China’s reopening represent significant positives for the engine OEM.

Emirates is scaling up its nationwide search for UK Cabin Crew to join its multinational team.

Etihad Airways has appointed Arik De as its chief revenue officer, overseeing a new organisational division focused on revenue.

EgyptAir Training Academy has successfully passed the EASA recurrent qualification for the full flight simulators on A320 (neo /ceo), B737-800, and B777.

XBAG, the safety bag for fighting battery fires in aircraft, is now part of Dynamic Advanced Training, the training programme of provider of aviation safety and security training in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.

Emirates Flight Training Academy (EFTA) has won the Training Provider of the Year Award at the Aviation Business Middle East Awards 2022.

Global flying activity, the metric that drives maintenance spending, has a ways to go before it is on par with pre-pandemic levels.

The UAE Space Agency (UAESA) has launched the Space Workshops with the aim to support the private sector and encourage start-ups with opportunities.

UAE-based flight planning and dispatch specialists Skyplan Services was at the MEBAA Show in Dubai to unveil its new flight dispatchers’ training school.

Three years ago, there wasn’t enough work to keep shops busy. Times—and trends—have changed.

Etihad Airways has appointed of Raffael Quintas as chief financial officer, effective immediately.

Skyplan Aviation Academy is offering professional flight dispatcher training in a just-launched competency-based program.

Emirates Flight Training Academy’s (EFTA) has held its third graduation ceremony and welcomed 53 new pilots trained at their world-class facility into the industry.

From flooding to sandstorms and wildfires, extreme weather events linked to climate change are affecting airline operations with increasing frequency, disrupting schedules and reducing the performance of aircraft and engines. Tom Batchelor reports.

Emirates-CAE Flight Training (ECFT) announced at MEBAA yesterday that it is enhancing its business aviation training offering with the deployment of a new Global 6500 full-flight simulator (FFS) in May at its Al Garhoud centre.

Skyplan Aviation Academy is at MEBAA with news that its Dubai-based flight dispatcher training is launching at the show.

Maria Deacon will take over the aftermarket job vacant since April.

THK Flight Academy, based in Turkey, has acquired an AlSIM ALX simulator.

As industry gears up for a busy travel season, see how airlines can reduce flight delays and cancellations in three unique ways.

Fifteen pilots have received their Comac C919 type certification following a two-month evaluation.

Dubai based Airways Aviation (Airways) and Dynamic Advanced Training (Dynamic) have entered into a new strategic partnership.