Maintenance & Training

Members of the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) have voted to extend the terms of the current chairperson and deputy chairperson for the next 12 months.
Maintenance & Training

By Ben Goldstein, Lori Ranson
Cost pressures could complicate airlines’ COVID recovery.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Peaford
Airbus is developing a new enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) for its A320 family of aircraft, that will eventually be adapted to other models. At the heart of the new system is a next-generation enhanced vision sensor which is being supplied to Airbus by Collins Aerospace.
Air Transport

Emirates plans to boost its operational workforce by planning to recruit more than 6,000 staff over the next six months.
Maintenance & Training

Gulf Air has appointed nine Bahraini professionals in various roles in the operations division.
Maintenance & Training

Aviators Africa will hold its 3rd Leadership CEO’s Forum on October 27th 2021 with plans to change the narrative on how decision and policy makers conduct aviation business in Africa.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
As sharing and analyzing data is proving increasingly effective, Airbus intends to build on the momentum and grow in services.
Aerospace

By Chen Chuanren
The plan will see prospective ST Engineering aircraft technicians undergo an accelerated three-year on-the-job training dedicated to UPS aircraft works.
Workforce & Training

Kuwait Airways has appointed Maen Razouqi as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Maintenance & Training

The UAE has appointed Salem Butti Salem Al Qubaisi as the new director-general of its national space agency.
Maintenance & Training

After a six-month delay, new EU pilot mental fitness rules came into effect earlier this year. With many non-EU countries and airlines mirroring European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) best practice, several Middle East carriers are now looking to up their levels of pilot support. Victoria Moores reports.
Maintenance & Training

By Adrian Schofield
Demand could spike quickly when COVID-19 restrictions ease, with many Asia-Pacific airlines needing MRO providers to help reactivate and perform checks on aircraft that have been in storage for several months.
Workforce & Training

Joramco, the Amman-based aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility and engineering arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), has appointed Adam Voss as their new chief operating officer (COO) reporting directly to Fraser Currie Joramco’s CEO.
Maintenance & Training

Mehmet T. Nane, CEO of Pegasus Airlines, has been appointed chair of the IATA Board of Governors.
Maintenance & Training

CAA International (CAAi) has won the ‘Training Organisation of the Year Award’ at the Emirates AVSEC Global 2021 Symposium and Awards in Dubai.
Maintenance & Training

By Sean Broderick
Focusing on routine tasks and deviations from them yields different views of safety risk.
Maintenance & Training

Aeralis has announced on 1an initial £10.5 million ($14.5 million) investment agreement with an as-yet unnamed “Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund.” This financial injection will be used to ‘support the design, development and first flight’ of its Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) platform, writes JON LAKE
Maintenance & Training

The two-seater Hansa New Generation (Hansa-NG) trainer aircraft, being developed by India’s National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), has conducted its maiden flight reports JAY MENON
Maintenance & Training

India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is hopeful of winning a contract to supply its Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas as Lead in Fighter Trainer (LIFT) configuration to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), writes Jay Menon.
Maintenance & Training

The first two BAE Systems Hawk Mk 167 jet trainers for the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) have arrived at RAF Leeming in the UK, reports JON LAKE.
Maintenance & Training

Indian military personnel are undergoing the second phase of training in Russia in handling the S-400 air defence systems, the delivery of which will commence by the end of his year, writes Jay Menon
Maintenance & Training

By Sean Broderick
Most airlines and maintenance providers plan to increase their use of used serviceable material (USM), and some are shifting their policies to include sourcing more alternative parts.
Supply Chain

With the eyes of the defence world about to turn towards Egypt for the forthcoming Egypt Defence Expo (EDEX) the Egyptian Air Force has been exploring new training opportunities with a range of partners and allies, writes Jon Lake
Maintenance & Training

Airlink, the independent domestic and regional airline, has appointed Carla da Silva to the position as executive manager of sales and marketing.
Maintenance & Training

Dawit Lemma, founder and CEO of Krimson Aviation, the Addis Ababa-based flight support, charter, leasing, MRO solutions and aviation consultancy Krimson Aviation, has launched a $100,000 scholarship to fund a new endowment at the prestigious aviation institution, Purdue University.
Maintenance & Training