Airbus seals A220 flight-hour services pact with Central Asia’s Air Manas
Airbus has concluded its first flight-hour services contract in Central Asia with an A220 pooling and component repair agreement with Kyrgyzstan’s Air Manas.
EasyJet to build maintenance hangar in Berlin
EasyJet will build a hangar at Berlin airport for light base maintenance checks as part of a wider effort to insource more MRO activities.
BA to accelerate 787 nose-gear modifications after retraction incident
British Airways is to speed implementation of a fix to prevent a repeat of the nose-gear retraction incident that damaged one of the carrier’s Boeing 787-8s on the ground at London Heathrow, in the aftermath of two similar events in the previous five years.
Rossiya prepares to start MC-21 operations in summer 2022
Russian carrier Rossiya is expecting to start operations with Irkut MC-21s in summer 2022, if the twinjet passes a technical readiness review.
HAECO, Diehl Aviation ink strategic partnership
HAECO’s cabin solutions unit has signed a strategic commercial agreement with German cabin interior and systems manufacturer Diehl Aviation.
Turkish Technic eyes expansion to Asia with local partner
Turkish Technic is planning an investment in Malaysia in partnership with local maintenance provider Sapura Technics, to address customers in Asia-Pacific.
Premature Bell 212 rotor strap pin failures spur urgent inspection order
Canadian authorities have ordered urgent replacement of rotor hub strap pins on certain Bell helicopters after premature failure of the component was found during investigation of a fatal Bell 212 crash.
Proposed Russian labour revision aims to allow female civil aircraft engineers
Russian legislators are preparing documentation which aims to remove, from autumn this year, the prohibition preventing women from working as civil aircraft mechanics and engineers.
Naples chosen by Israel’s IAI as site for 737 freighter conversions
Israel Aerospace Industries is to set up a European facility in Naples to convert passenger aircraft into freighters.
ATSG leasing unit accelerates plan to add A321 converted freighters
Lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) is set to add its first Airbus freighters after announcing a deal to purchase two A321s in response to customer demand.