Lion Air’s new Thai affiliate wants to operate two of the Boeing 787s that its parent company has on order, for use on international routes out of Bangkok. Thai Lion Air “is speaking” with the Lion Group about adding 787-8s to its fleet and using these aircraft to launch services to Japan and South Korea, says Thai Lion Air CEO Darsito Hendro Septro. He says he would like Lion Group to allocate the two 787s in 2016. Lion has five 787s on order, with first delivery expected in 2015. It also has five options.

Air France-KLM Group’s Engineering & Maintenance (AFI-KLM E&M) unit saw third-party revenue jump 19.5% in the third quarter, continuing a trend that has the maintenance group’s outside revenues on pace to grow nearly 20% this year.

Top executive expects 2013 profits to be higher than last year

Airframe manufacturers face an uphill climb to capture consistent revenues from the aftermarket, but hold several advantages over traditional maintenance suppliers that—if leveraged correctly—could lead to market-share gains, a PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) analysis concludes.

The world’s jetliner fleet should top 39,500 aircraft in 10 year

As the only all-new engine developed for one of the most ambitious aircraft models built in the jet age, General Electric’s GE90 family has more than held its own.

The much-delayed maintenance, repair and overhaul facility jointly established by Air India and Boeing in India will be operational by mid-2014, the U.S. aircraft maker says. “The handover of the facility will be done by the end of this quarter or the next,” says Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president-sales, Asia Pacific and India, Boeing Commercial Aircraft.

Inefficient certification processes are delaying hundreds of new applications for aircraft operations and repair stations, says Jeffrey Guzzetti, assistant inspector general for aviation audits for the U.S. Transportation Department.