MRO providers and OEMs are preparing to use data streaming from new aircraft and components to improve predictive maintenance, reducing failures and service disruptions for airline customers.

Revenue-generating numbers touted by OEMs for airliner cabin modifications are not necessarily produced in reality, a senior executive at Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Tigerair cautioned.

Being a low-cost carrier does not mean getting low-cost maintenance, a group of executives with Singapore-based LCCs agreed.

Land constraints, customs bureaucracy and an acute shortage of skilled labor afflict the maintenance, repair and overhaul industry in the Asia-Pacific region, which is forecast to become the world’s largest in terms of fleet size and MRO market value.

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View a hyperlapse of Duncan Aviation's unique paint application on a Gulfstream GV for Metropolitan Aviation.

GMF AeroAsia has opened a 16-line narrowbody aircraft hangar at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the facility also includes a dedicated paint bay.

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