Maintenance & Training

Etihad Cargo has enhanced delivery of its eight-strong premium product range with the appointment of a specialised managerial team.

Hong Kong-based HAECO has completed its first split scimitar winglet modification for a Boeing 737-800, which is aimed to improve aerodynamics and fuel efficiency.

ALSIM has announced the sale of an ALX to AFRICAT Group, based in the Ivory Coast.

IATA has appointed Frederic Leger as the association’s senior vice president for commercial products and services.

Airlines, MROs and OEMs share lessons learned from parking aircraft during the pandemic.

Airlink CEO Rodger Foster has been admitted to the “Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul” (National Order of the Southern Cross), in the class of Commander.

The January 2022 edition of AFRAA Sky-Connect will host Barry Kashambo - ICAO regional director - Eastern and Southern African Office.

India’s home-grown Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) is getting ready for induction with the successful demonstration of its capability to carry out six turn spins.

A new “digital aviation corporate laboratory" aims to find bespoke solutions for Singapore Airlines by leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, data sciences, virtual reality, behavioral sciences and operational research.

Tough business decisions often have to be made on flights. For Phyl Durdey, founder of Flightline Training Services, there was one he got “absolutely right”.

Thabile Mathe has joined ACI Africa as director for facilitation, technology and innovation, on secondment from Airports Company South Africa (ACSA).

Gulf Air recently promoted four Bahraini employees from the technical division as its continuous strategic plan to develop its Bahraini workforce.

Drone-based aircraft inspections are gaining traction as new providers, technologies and certifications come down the pipeline.

Korean Air has demonstrated the visual inspection of an aircraft using multiple drones simultaneously.

EgyptAir Training Academy (ETA) has renewed its approval of training Sudanese pilots, cabin crew, engineers and dispatchers at ETA premises.

Turkey is looking to revive historic relationships with neighbouring Azerbaijan through the potential sale of trainer aircraft.

The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry has announced that its country’s air force has conducted live-fire training flights with its Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a recent military exercise.

Ghana’s Ministry of Defence has suspended negotiations with Czech aircraft builder Aero Vodochody for the acquisition of six L-39 NG light attack/trainer aircraft while a rival US bid was evaluated.

Saudi Arabian and US air forces spent December undergoing bilateral exercises to test ‘combat readiness’, according to the Royal Saudi Air Force

Following the delivery of the last of its new F-15SA advanced fighter aircraft to the Royal Saudi Air Force on December 14 2020, as part of a $29bn foreign military sales (FMS) agreement signed in 2010, Boeing has now been awarded a $93.39 million ‘bilateral requirements contract modification’ for the Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA OEM training programme, the US DoD announced on 8 December.

The Indian Air Force has started the training of its pilots on the Rafale within India itself. Rafale pilot and groundcrew training in France ended in April 2021, with the graduation of the third batch of personnel.

Turkish and Indian manufactured trainer aircraft are in contention the latest Malaysian contract .for a light fighter and advanced trainer contract

The joint UK-Qatari Typhoon Squadron is continuing to work up, participating in a series of exercises. The Joint Squadron was planned to operate for a period of three years, the last six months of which will be spent in Qatar.

Emirates Group Security (EGS) has signed an agreement with the University of Arizona (UA) located in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

The latest group of future Saudi Arabian air traffic controllers to train with New Zealand’s Airways International was the first to include Saudi women learning ATC skills abroad. Alan Dron reports.