Aviation Week MRO

Craig Gottlieb
Ten years ago, with a global recession fresh in memory, researchers asked a question: What distinguishes companies that flourish after a downturn? The
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By Henry Canaday
The Chinese domestic airline market has recovered more quickly from the virus crisis than markets elsewhere, but Chinese MRO is still heavily
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By Sean Broderick
Safran is projecting a 50% decline in commercial engine aftermarket revenues in 2020, but cautions that airline balance sheets, closely linked to air travel demand, will have significant influence on how quickly the lucrative segment recovers.
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S7 Technics Producing Braille Stickers for Aircraft Interiors S7 Technics has begun producing tactile Braille stickers for interiors of Russian
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By Henry Canaday
By late July, Chinese domestic flight stood at about 10,000 per day, versus roughly 2,000 per day at the depth of the virus crisis, according to
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By James Pozzi
With the novel coronavirus heavily impacting the bottom lines of some of the aviation industry’s biggest companies, one of its largest MRO providers
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By James Pozzi
The COVID-19 outbreak led to a high of nearly 80% of the world’s commercial aircraft being grounded earlier this year. Patrick Lecer, CEO of Tarmac
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By Alex Derber
Airbus’s first-half results were expected to be ugly and the European OEM duly revealed that it burned through more than €12 billion ($14 billion) of
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By James Pozzi
UK airline EasyJet has renewed its supply chain management agreement with AJW Group for a further seven years. Under the renewed ties, AJW will
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By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The system will first be installed on Hong Kong Airlines’ fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The U.S.-based MRO has used CARES Act funding toward aircraft type training and appointed a new chief operating officer.
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By James Pozzi
The COVID-19 pandemic potentially leading to greater digitalization in the commercial aftermarket long-term has led to companies beefing up their
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By Alex Derber
SIA Engineering (SIAEC) has described the MRO outlook as “challenging” with no clear sign of a significant pick-up in flight frequencies. Unlike
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Honeywell Appoints New Channel Partners Honeywell has appointed Sabena Technics and Singapore Component Solutions as global channel partners for its
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By Lindsay Bjerregaard
AerinX’s mixed reality inspection system has received new venture capital funding to accelerate its readiness for early 2021.
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By Alex Derber
The desert around Alice Springs is becoming a little less desolate as Asian carriers begin to populate it with aircraft for storage. Airlines such as
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By Henry Canaday
The great virus crisis of 2020 is resolving itself into a financial disaster for airlines and slack times for OEMs and MROs as most airlines steadily
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By James Pozzi
Following the signing of a strategic partnership in late 2019 between Boeing and Etihad Airways encompassing operational reliability, maintenance and
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By James Pozzi
Aftermarket services provider RUAG MRO International has commissioned a new painting and drying shop for aircraft components in Oberpfaffenhofen
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By Henry Canaday
After China, Europe was the second region to be hit hard by the virus crisis. Its aviation sector was severely restricted but appears to be recovering
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By James Pozzi
After acquiring Swfr120 million ($125 million) of finance backed by the Swiss government last week, SR Technics has announced plans to reshape its
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By Henry Canaday
Some airlines warned that they might have laid off 30-50% of their employees without the assistance provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
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Liebherr Develops MRO Paperless Shop Software Liebherr-Aerospace has developed proprietary service center software called eLIROM dedicated to
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By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The conversion has received FAA approval and will fly with launch customer Texel Air.
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By Henry Canaday
Industry experts estimate that anywhere from 2,500 to 3,500 existing aircraft will not be needed by airlines over the next three years. Surplus
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