Maintenance & Training

Following Alpha Aviation Academy UAE’s awarding of a contract to MPS in March 2020 for the supply of its first simulator in the GCC, the MPS team has successfully installed the A320 Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD) at the academy located near Sharjah International Airport.
Maintenance & Training

By Sean Broderick
In-person training, inspector approvals are among the tasks being paused or reevaluated as agency seeks to maintain oversight.
Maintenance & Training

By Sean Broderick, Lindsay Bjerregaard
Where can companies get emergency cash? What are eligibility requirements? What about the regulations? Here's our list of links to the best information our editors have found.
MRO

By Kurt Hofmann
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has reached an agreement to introduce short-time work for around 12,000 employees in Germany.
Maintenance & Training

Rolls-Royce is publishing, for free, its world-class digital skills training programme to help people and businesses around the world prepare for a potentially digital-centric recovery from COVID-19.
Maintenance & Training

By Lee Ann Shay
The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the airline industry, which could result in the commercial aviation MRO market dollar demand declining 25
Asset Utilization

By Henry Canaday, Sean Broderick
The financial help available to airlines under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) come with restrictions and conditions
MRO

By Lee Ann Shay
Amid the COVID-19 crisis we talk to John Holmes, president and CEO of AAR Corp. He joined the company right before 9/11 and has seen it weather
Check 6

The Board of Directors at South African Airways has accepted the request from Zuks Ramasia, SAA acting CEO, for early retirement. Her last date of employ will be 14 April 2020.
Maintenance & Training

ALSIM, a flight simulator manufacturer headquartered in France, has launched its new AL40, an exact replica of a new Diamond DA40 NG.
Maintenance & Training

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The bosses of the four main ground handling service providers operating in the UK have written to the government to call for financial support, warning that the collapse of their businesses would have knock-on effects for the aviation sector’s post-COVID-19 recovery.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Sensing supercooled icing; Russian electric testbed: deorbiting tether; digitalizing cabin; UPS drone delivery; Lilium eVTOL funding.
Emerging Technologies

By James Pozzi
Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company (HAECO Group) has acquired U.S. engine repair specialist Jet Engine Solutions.
MRO

By Sean Broderick
Aftermarket services specialist AAR Corp. is bracing for a drop in demand for maintenance as airlines scale back to cope with reduced flying amid the coronavirus pandemic, but is already seeing a rebound in markets that are now in recovery mode.
MRO

By Bill Carey
Solicitation asks manufacturers to supply a drone approved to fly beyond line of sight for transmission line inspections.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Kurt Hofmann
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is already seeing a massive impact from the COVID-19 crisis but cannot predict the extent of the damage to the global aviation industry.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Ann Shay
Airlines are drastically cutting their passenger flights in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, which could take several months to contain. This will cause a rash of aftermarket order cancellations.
MRO

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Global supplier of aftermarket aviation parts to open a 25,000-sq.-ft. warehouse at Dublin Airport.
Business Aviation

By Lee Ann Shay
Ted Colbert, CEO of Boeing Global Services, spoke with Lee Ann Shay on March 4 at Boeing’s Chicago headquarters about how he’s adjusting to the job that he started in October and how he’s navigating today’s very dynamic business environment.
MRO

By Sean Broderick
Draft sent to the U.S. contained a probable-cause statement despite report’s status as an interim update
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
Constant Aviation, a Cleveland-based maintenance, repair and overhaul specialist, says concern over the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a wave of inquiries from business and commercial operators over applications of a specially developed anti-microbial protection treatment for aircraft interiors.
MRO

By Sean Broderick
The association that represents U.S. aviation repair stations has asked the Trump administration and Congress for $11 billion to help offset an anticipated slowdown in aftermarket work as airlines ground aircraft and wait out the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.
MRO

By Michael Bruno
Industry insiders and analysts are increasingly forecasting a 20% or greater falloff in commercial aftermarket revenue this year for manufacturers and other aerospace and defense companies with stakes in the business due to the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis and the collapse in Western air travel.
Aerospace

By Bill Carey
American Airlines, ACSS and the FAA are collecting data on the operational value of flights using ADS-B In.
Connected Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
EASA and Eurocontrol release reports providing a road map and action plan for artificial intelligence in aviation and air traffic management.
Emerging Technologies