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ANALYSIS: How EasyJet transformed its pilot training

EasyJet has travelled a long way in its 20-year existence. Since introducing the British public to the low-cost carrier model, and inspiring multiple other operators to follow its lead, the UK-based company is now an established airline of choice for many leisure and business travellers. More tha...

Gulfstream Brazil Services First Argentina-reg Aircraft

Gulfstream Aerospace’s service center in Sorocaba, Brazil, recently performed maintenance on its first Argentina-registered aircraft, some seven months after receiving maintenance authorization approval from Argentina’s Administración Nacional de Aviación Civil. The large-c...

StandardAero Authorized as Major Maintenance Provider for Honeywell HTF7000 Turbofan Engines

StandardAero has been authorized by Honeywell Aerospace as major maintenance provider for repair and overhaul services (MRO) for the Honeywell HTF7000 family of turbofan engines, powering Bombardier Challenger 300/350, Embraer Legacy 450/500, Gulfstream G280 and the recently announced Cessna Citation Longitude business jets. StandardAero will also own and maintain HTF7000 rental bank engi...

Air cadet cuts will see more than half of squadrons axed

Cuts are likely to cause a fall in young recruits as many will now have to travel hours across the country to get flying practice, air campaigners warn. Thousands of young Air Cadets will find it more difficult to gain valuable flying experience after a “ludicrous” and “short-sighted” decision to disband more than half their volunteer glider squadrons it is claimed....

Are maintenance problems at Allegiant Air the result of an airline growing too fast?

David Stuckenberg has flown thousands of hours as an Air Force pilot and a passenger on commercial airliners. He said a flight on Allegiant Air last month was his worst flying experience ever. The takeoff from St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport aborted at high speed, announced by a loud boom from a failing engine. It took more than three hours for Allegiant to find a replacement plane. A...

Turbomeca Launches Boost Online Engine Tracking

Helicopter engine maker Turbomeca has launched an online engine maintenance tracking system called Boost (bank of online services and technologies). The company describes it as a highly secured, web-based application developed in association with IBM that will allow operators to access real-time, personalized engine data, enrich their own fleet maintenance management and provide direct 2...

Southwest Uses 737 Retirements To Drop Costs

Southwest Airlines is phasing out its Boeing 737 Classic aircraft by about 2017 and is finding ways to use engine inventory from that fleet to decrease its maintenance costs. Mandy Gower, Southwest Airlines’ powerplant supply chain manager, told Aviation Week that the airline employs MTU Canada and BP Aerospace in Irvine, Calif., to tear down its CFMI CFM56-3s that pow...

MROs Add Ancillary Services For Revenue Growth

Despite high fuel prices and sluggish economies, airlines have stabilized their finances by cutting costs to the bone and finding new products to sell, or old products to sell differently. Airline ancillary services may be unbundled traditional services, or they may be innovative new services. Successful MROs and OEMs prosper in much the same ways as airlines: by leaning out costs and finding n...

Used Parts Push Means Opportunities For Component OEMs

The rising demand for surplus parts that is re-shaping airline aftermarket strategies presents component manufacturers with clear opportunities to follow their engine-producing colleagues by grabbing larger slices of the growing used-parts pie. The used serviceable material ( USM ) market was $3.5 billion in 2013, according to consultancy ICF SH&E, including about $2.2 billion in engine par...

Boeing, Nok Air Celebrate 737 Delivery, Kick Off Flight Training Program

Boeing delivered Nok Air's 21st Next-Generation 737-800 during a ceremony at the Seattle Delivery Center. The celebration marked the third direct-purchased 737-800 to be delivered to Nok Air. "We are extremely pleased to welcome another new 737-800 to our growing all-Boeing fleet," said Patee Sarasin, CEO of Nok Air. "The 737 provides us with the efficiency and reliabili...

FlightSafety's Sikorsky S-76C+ and S-76C++ simulator Singapore receives FAA Level D qualification

FlightSafety International announces that its simulator for the Sikorsky S-76C+™ and S-76C++™ located in Singapore has been qualified to Level D by the United States Federal Aviation Administration. The facility has also been approved to provide FAA PART 142 training under FlightSafety’s single certificate. “We are pleased to announce that training for the Sikorsky S-76C...

JetBlue wants to train aspiring pilots with diverse backgrounds

Aspiring pilots, rejoice. JetBlue has launched a program to select and train everyday folks to fly a commercial jet. JetBlue's pilots don't like the idea, saying there are already plenty of experienced pilots ready to work for JetBlue. The pilot recruiting and training program, dubbed Gateway Select, is designed to make “the profession more accessible to a broader range of cand...

Lufthansa Technik: APU services for Taiwan based low-cost carrier Tigerair Taiwan

Lufthansa Technik AG has further extended its market presence in Taiwan by entering into a new long-term agreement with Taiwan-based low-cost carrier Tigerair Taiwan. According to the new contract, the Hamburg-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider is now responsible for providing maintenance services including LRU (line-replaceable unit) services for t...

Next Milestone in Sight for PACAVI Group Airbus A320 Passenger-To-Freighter Conversion Program

The PACAVI Group is moving forward with the supplemental type certificate (STC) development for their first-to-market Airbus A320/A321 passenger-to-freighter conversion. PACAVI Group CEO Dr. Stephan Hollmann commented on the program’s status: “Our STC program, started in January 2015, is progressing on schedule, as well as the conversion of our pro...

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