All MRO articles – Page 517
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Rule change
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC The aero engine service business has undergone a fundamental overhaul since 1995, when manufacturers began to recognise the untapped potential of the aftersales market to boost revenue. Airlines, struggling to cut costs, have been moving meanwhile to spin off their engineering divisions or to exit the ...
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Executive Jet begins Middle East marketing
Executive Jet is planning to launch a five-week marketing campaign, kicking off on 15 February, to promote its Middle East fractional ownership programme in the region. Operations are to start in the second quarter. Executive Jet vice-president of marketing Charlie Lynch says: "We will hit the market with large ...
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Croatia Airlines nears alliance
Andrew Doyle/ZAGREB Croatia Airlines is finalising a strategic tie-up with a major European flag carrier as the next stage in its plans to establish Zagreb as a regional hub for destinations in the former Yugoslavia. The move comes hard on the heels of the acquisition by the Croatian ...
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LHT expands
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has opened a 4,000sq3, maintenance hangar at Stuttgart Airport in Germany. The building replaces a smaller facility that is closing to allow expansion of the airport's passenger terminal. The DM15 million hangar will be used to perform line maintenance work on the 20 aircraft that night-stop at ...
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Thriving business
Andrew Doyle/TEL AVIV In an era when airline bosses preach the merits of focusing on "core activities", Arkia Israeli Airlines has learned to thrive through diversification. As Israel's largest domestic carrier, Arkia built its international charter unit into a major leisure travel business, selling everything from hotel rooms ...
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FAA sends US 727F operators $192 million bill
The US Federal Aviation Administration has finalised airworthiness directives (AD) which impose severe payload limits on Boeing 727s that were converted into freighters by third party maintenance organisations. The restrictions remain in effect until floor structures on 270 US-registered 727Fs are modified at an estimated cost of $192 million, ...
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Components plant
Snecma Services, the French engine maker's after-market arm, and the USA's Praxair Surface Technologies are negotiating to set up an aircraft engine component repair centre in France. Initially, it will provide compressor component repair services for CFM56, and later the General Electric GE90 powerplant. Praxair provides metallic and ceramic coatings ...
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Ex-Cathay executives try to save PAL
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Four senior executives at Cathay Pacific Airways have quit to form a new management consultancy that will try to save struggling Philippine Airlines from collapse. The executives are Peter Foster, formerly Cathay's general manager for Taiwan and the Philippines, who will become chief company adviser; Michael ...
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Bond Helicopters sells Rotortech arm
Bond Helicopters has sold the composite and structural repair arm of its Rotortech engineering subsidiary to manpower and aircraft maintenance provider IAP, to concentrate on its offshore and onshore helicopter business. "We have split the company in two. We have moved the component repair and overhaul business from the ...
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Debonair extends AB Airlines link with Boeing 737 lease
Debonair has expanded its co-operation with fellow UK low fare airline AB Airlines and boosted its fleet capacity with a nine-month deal to lease a 139-seat Boeing 737-300. The London Luton-based carrier will use the aircraft to supplement its fleet of 12 smaller British Aerospace 146s, initially to increase ...
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US majors aim to break the cycle
The US majors have just ended another year of record profits, but can the industry now avoid descending into losses once the market turns? Airline managers are confident they can. It will be different next time. How familiar that message must sound to the Wall Street analysts who track ...
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Teaming up
FLS Aerospace has concluded the take-over of TEAM, the maintenance arm of Aer Lingus. The deal, which includes a 10-year maintenance contract with the Irish airline, means FLS Aerospace now has major hangar facilities at Stansted, Dublin, Gatwick, Manchester and Copenhagen. Source: Flight International
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Marketplace
-Continental Airlines has placed a $75 million order with Rolls-Royce for RB211-535E4B engines to power five Boeing 757-200s. The 757s were ordered in 1997 and are due for delivery between December 1999 and June 2000. -American International Airways, a division of Kitty Hawk, has taken delivery of an ex-Middle East ...
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GAMECO heads for mainland expansion
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance (GAMECO) is to open two new facilities in response to growing mainland Chinese demand for aircraft maintenance services. A new three-bay widebody hangar is to be built at Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, and land has been allocated for two more similar hangars to be built ...
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Chasing a dream
Paul Duffy/PERM The last seven years have been difficult for the Russian aviation industry. Long accustomed to producing to Soviet state orders, the industry's finance and income also came from the same source. Now in crisis, most state-owned companies in the industry are waiting for state rescue. If ...
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Kitty Hawk mulls exit from charter work
Kitty Hawk has parked one of two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft operated by its American International Airways (AIA) unit pending a decision about whether to sell the aircraft or convert it into a freighter. The decision leaves one 747-100 and two Lockheed L-1011 TriStars available for passenger charter customers, ...
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Boeing hopes repairs will occupy Long Beach
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is resorting to introducing repair and modification work to keep its Long Beach plant in California busy, following the reversal of plans to set up a Next Generation 737 assembly line at the former Douglas factory. Boeing 737 operators face the prospect of their ...
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Japan suspends Fuji deals after bribery
Japan's Defence Agency is to suspend all transactions with Fuji Heavy Industries for the next 12 months from April to penalise it for its role in a bribery scandal. Several aerospace programmes could be affected, most notably the T-3 trainer replacement programme. The government says only essential work will ...
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Qantas studies 747 classic fleet expansion
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Qantas is evaluating Boeing 747 classic fleets being offered for sale with a view to boosting its own fleet of 747s by up to six aircraft at the end of next year. The airline is working on a business study which proposes the increase in 747 ...
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More 717 wing work goes to Canadian plant
Boeing has extended 717 wing manufacturing at its Boeing Toronto site in Canada by another 50 shipsets, but insists the move does not imply the end of its links with Hyundai of South Korea, or its ongoing talks in China to find a second source for wing manufacture. "Boeing ...