Maintenance & Training

Burkina Faso is again relying on international carriers for its air transport following an engine fire on Air Burkina’s only operational Embraer E195 aircraft last week.

As flight activity rises, the aftermarket recovery’s pace faces threats from labor, supply chain constraints.

ALSIM has announced its second sale at AERO Friedrichshafen 2022, an ALSIM ALSR20 simulator to Cirrus South Africa, based in Lanseria, South Africa.

Listen in as Aviation Week and ATW air transport editors discuss the pilot shortage U.S. airlines are grappling with during the post-pandemic rebound.

Air New Zealand has revealed a plan to relocate its headquarters to Auckland Airport, and is also restarting its project to build a new maintenance hangar there.

Aerospace components manufacturer aims to slash training needed to fly eVTOL aircraft.

Carriers predict a return to profitability in the second quarter, but pilot staffing challenges loom large.

Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Company (GAMECO) has cut its first Boeing 767-300BCF cargo door, while Chinese-owned lessor CDB Aviation has separately taken delivery of its first freighter.

The curriculum for engineering must expand to include flexible interdisciplinary coursework and hands-on laboratory experience.

With the recent purchase of three Diamond Aircraft flight training devices, Ethiopian Airlines (EAL) is now operating a fleet of five state-of-the art simulators.

Air India is restoring salaries of employees following recovery from the pandemic, of which the Indian aviation sector was badly hit and resulted in a cut in salaries.

US domestic capacity in 2022 is returning to 2019 levels, but this follows the early retirements in 2020 and 2021 of thousands of flight crew. The

Honeywell has appointed Abdullah Abdulrahman Al-juffali as Honeywell country president of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Unlike in the U.S., the pilot market is still tough in Europe and in the Lufthansa Group in particular.

Ryanair is adding French flying school Astonfly to its network of European partners for pilot training as part of plans to meet its sustained demand for pilots.

Pilots are gaining access to more data and contributing to aggregation programs, and operators are benefiting.

Mehmet T. Nane, who has been serving as CEO of Pegasus Airlines since 2016, has become a Member of the Board of Directors and was elected vice-chairperson of the Board.

The Emirates Aviation University has held its fifth annual Water Rocket Competition, in collaboration with Boeing.

EgyptAir Training Academy recently implemented theoretical and practical training on the Boeing B777 and B737-800 simulators for a number of Indian pilots.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s flight program located in Arizona’s sunny High Desert region, has been growing at a rate of 15-20% a year for the past three years, along with its number of aircraft, flight instructors and airline-affiliated partnerships.

Oman Air recently conducted a series of Emergency Response Planning (ERP) training sessions at the airline’s headquarters.

A nurse from the United Kingdom has won first prize in Qatar Airways’ ‘Fly and Win’ campaign; becoming a US dollar millionaire overnight.

Mesfin Tasew has been appointed as the new Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines following the sudden resignation of Tewolde GebreMariam for health reasons.

Etihad Engineering has welcomed a delegation from Argentina to its facility.

Tewolde GebreMariam, the long-serving CEO of Africa’s leading airline – Ethiopian Airlines – has stepped down from his post after more than 35 years with the airline.