Aviation Week MRO

By Sean Broderick
EASA plans to mandate Rolls-Royce-recommended on-wing inspections of certain Trent 900 interstage spacers to find cracked parts in the Airbus A380 engines before they trigger in-service incidents.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By James Pozzi
A subsidiary of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has become the first MRO in the country to receive EASA Part 145 certification for base
MRO

By Alex Derber
Alongside cargo operators, one of the very few beneficiaries of the current crisis is likely to be aircraft storage and disassembly centers
MRO

VD Gulf Signs Supply Agreement With Satair Middle Eastern MRO VD Gulf has signed a long term supply agreement with Satair. The agreement will increase
MRO

By Lee Ann Shay
Jaunt Air Mobility plans to introduce an all-electric eVTOL aircraft for advanced air mobility in the next few years. Simon Briceno, who heads advanced air mobility for Jaunt, talks about the program’s development and intended maintenance plans.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alex Derber
The collapse of passenger flights and their associated bellyhold capacity has provided a huge boost for air cargo operators. Prime examples are the
MRO

By Lee Ann Shay
Alice Springs, in central Australia, is where many Asia-Pacific aircraft are getting parked. When Tom Vincent opened Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage there in 2014 as the first purpose-built aircraft storage facility in Asia-Pacific, he didn’t predict anything like the pandemic occurring.

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Malaysia Airlines Berhad is forming a joint venture with Piedmont Propulsion Systems to provide aircraft propeller MRO services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Henry Canaday
International routes are expected to open up well after domestic flying, which means the widebodies common on many of these routes will be grounded
MRO

By Henry Canaday
Although domestic traffic in China and some other Asia-Pacific nations is recovering, the market is still slim elsewhere in the region. And that has
MRO

By James Pozzi
The post-COVID-19 aviation landscape is expected to take on a different form, with change expected to be the MRO segment tipped to accelerate towards
MRO

By Alex Derber
The aerospace division of Singapore Technologies Engineering suffered a 24% decline in pre-tax profit in the first half of the year, as the company
MRO

Volga-Dnepr Technics Gets EASA Approval for B777 Training Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow Aviation Training Centre has received EASA approval to provide
MRO

By Alex Derber
Lufthansa Technik has some rare cause for celebration in the current crisis after extending its 737NG base maintenance support agreement with Norwegian for another five years.
MRO

By James Pozzi
Australia-based Heston MRO has ventured into aircraft parking and storage services after signing an agreement with a privately funded airport in
MRO

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Lufthansa Technik is adapting its training programs to cope with COVID-19 effects and short-time work, welcoming 240 new apprentices this month.
Workforce & Training

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The airline says the facility is the largest MRO complex to be constructed in Brazil in the last 40 years.
MRO

By Alex Derber
The knock-on effect of the collapse in passenger demand has become clearer in MRO providers’ second-quarter results, although the full severity of the
MRO

SR Technics Promotes Caroline Vandedrinck Caroline Vandedrinck will become senior VP sales for SR Technics as of Sept. 1 and will lead a new sales
MRO

By Alex Derber
Lufthansa has blamed the “almost complete grounding of [the] global commercial aircraft fleet,” for losses at its maintenance arm in the second quarter.
MRO

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
It says its new Flashplug product is cheaper and up to 90% faster than traditional options for sealing engine exhausts on parked aircraft.
MRO

By Sean Broderick
Airline maintenance is a lagging indicator of global passenger and cargo demand.
MRO

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The OEM is releasing solutions for dealing with grounded aircraft, remote maintenance training and medevac conversions.
MRO

By James Pozzi
Moving a company to a new location is rarely an easy task, especially when that move entails the uprooting of the business to somewhere nearly 1,500
MRO

By James Pozzi
The commercial engine repair segment could be the aftermarket segment feeling the most adverse effects of the novel coronavirus crisis with providers
MRO