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