Embraer bags MRO deals from African and European carriers

Embraer has won three separate maintenance agreements from Air Botswana, Spanish carrier Binter and Mauritania Airlines. Binter Canarias has signed a multi-year support agreement for three on-order Embraer 195-E2s, which are scheduled to be delivered from the second half of this year. The total support package covers component services, pool access, heavy checks, routine and […]

Brazil’s Gol to offer MRO services from 2020

Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (G3, São Paulo Congonhas) is planning to start proferring maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services to external customers from 2020 onwards, maintenance director Carlos Alberto Costa said at Aviation Week’s MRO Latin America event. The facility located at Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves will initially focus on B737 aircraft. The maintenance hangar […]

Simulador de vuelos de Avianca y CAE ofrecerá servicios desde 2019

Avianca y su socio canadiense CAE han recibido el certificado de operación: UAEAC-CCI-092, por parte de la UAEAC (Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil) para la operación del Centro de Instrucción Aeronáutica avanzada Avianca–CAE Flight Training (ACFT) S.A.S. Con esta certificación, el centro podrá a partir del próximo año impartir instrucción y ofrecer sus servicios […]

IATA y CFM International impulsan MRO en motores

CFM International celebró un acuerdo con la Asociación de Transporte Aéreo Internacional (IATA) mediante el cual ambas instancias buscan incentivar la competencia en el mercado de servicios de mantenimiento, reparación y revisión (MRO, por sus siglas en inglés) para las turbinas de aviones CFM56 y LEAP. Recordemos que CFM es una empresa conjunta formada por […]

Air Transport MRO Market is Growing at Significant Rate, 2020

Maintenance, repair and operation (MRO) plays a significant role in the enlargement of the air transport fleet. The Air Transport MRO evolved out of drift by airline companies to outsource the task of maintenance, repair and overhaul of engines, line, airframes and components to independent/third-party or airline operated/owned MRO set ups. A decade earlier, most […]

Airbus strengthens position in Asia-Pacific aviation services market

While air traffic is doubling every 15 years in the world, the Asia-Pacific fleet is set to almost triple by 2036. For services, this translates into more than a third of the global MRO business coming from this region by 2036. This represents more than $660 billion "“ the sum total of the accumulated spending […]

ALTA Welcomes MRO Service Provider SR Technics as New Member

ALTA (the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association) today welcomed MRO service provider SR Technics as its newest affiliate member. ALTA’s affiliate members are airline-related organizations that work collaboratively with the association on aviation industry initiatives throughout the Latin America and Caribbean region. «We are pleased to welcome SR Technics and their MRO expertise […]

Air Transport MRO Market to Witness Exponential Growth by 2020

Maintenance, repair and operation (MRO) plays a significant role in the enlargement of the air transport fleet. The Air Transport MRO evolved out of drift by airline companies to outsource the task of maintenance, repair and overhaul of engines, line, airframes and components to independent/third-party or airline operated/owned MRO set ups. A decade earlier, most […]

Interjet crecerá anualmente 30%

Cuenta con una de las flotas más modernas del mundo compuesta por 78 aeronaves La aerolínea que comanda en México José Luis Garza, y que en los últimos meses ha tenido un cambio estructural importante en su organigrama, continuará incrementando su flota durante 2018, a corto plazo tienen programado recibir ocho aviones A321NEO, con lo […]

Airbus nombra a C. Jeffrey Knittel nuevo Chairman y CEO de Airbus Americas a partir de 2018

El experimentado profesional del sector aeroespacial C. Jeffrey Knittel, anteriormente Chief Executive de C2 Aviation Capital y Presidente de CIT Transportation Finance, se incorporará a Airbus a principios del año que viene tomando las riendas de la actividad de la compañía en el continente americano. Knittel aporta a esta responsabilidad más de 25 años de […]