Canada’s Sky Regional Airlines has signed an exclusive eight-year-agreement with Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey for engine services on Sky's PW150As. Several airlines operating mostly new Boeing 777-300ERs with GE Aviation GE90-115B engines are either replacing engines or gearboxes since GE issued two service bulletins after two inflight shut downs due to gear separation in gearboxes.
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The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has granted an airworthiness certificate for the Boeing 787, clearing the way for China Southern Airlines to take delivery of its first Boeing 787 at the end of May or early June.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will operate five non-scheduled Boeing 787 flights at the end of May, marking a return to service by the Dreamliner launch customer since the aircraft was grounded in January.
European Commission antitrust regulators have accepted concessions from Air Canada, Lufthansa and United Continental Holdings to ease competition concerns about their A Plus-Plus transatlantic joint venture.
Indonesia’s Lion Air plans to base up to six Boeing 737-800s with its new Thai subsidiary, which will be based at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport, according to a report in the Bangkok Post.
Rolls-Royce has won an order from US leasing company CIT Aerospace for Trent XWB engines to power 10 Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, and Trent 700 engines to power 13 Airbus A330 aircraft.
US transportation secretary-nominee Anthony Foxx told Congress that modernizing and building up the country’s transportation infrastructure, including implementing the NextGen air traffic control system, will be a top priority during his tenure heading the Dept. of Transportation (DOT).
Air Berlin, which is cutting 900 jobs as part of its Turbine savings program, will transfer more than 50 pilots to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways as the German carrier reduces its fleet and its majority shareholder prepares for international expansion.
Turkish Airlines is planning to increase the number of Russian routes pending an agreement with Russian aviation authorities on destinations, the carrier’s Russia representative Mefail Deribas said.
