• Jet Aviation signs agreement for its 10th C-Check on a Dassault Falcon 7X in Basel

    Jet Aviation’s Maintenance Center in Basel recently signed an agreement with an undisclosed customer that will have the company perform its 10th C-Check on a Dassault Falcon F7X. Jet Aviation completed its first C-Check on this aircraft type in April 2015. As a Dassault Falcon Authorized Service Center, Jet Aviation’s Maintenance Center in Basel is quickly gaining experience…

  • MRO and additive manufacturing

    In an issue dated October 14, 2016, and as part of a special report on MRO and additive manufacturing, the weekly magazine Air & Cosmos published an interview with Thierry Thomas, Vice President of the industrial skills center Safran Additive Manufacturing within Safran Tech. Below we have reproduced the interview with the kind permission of…

  • Lufthansa CFM56-5C engine achieves 100,000 flight hours

    More than 100,000 flight hours for one HAMBURG, Germany — 8 November 2016 — Lufthansa and CFM International are celebrating the achievement of 100,000 flight hours by one of the airline’s CFM56-5C engine more than 20 years after Lufthansa took delivery of its first Airbus A340-300. Lufthansa, which is part of the Lufthansa Group, took delivery…

  • Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus sign MoU to develop A380 MRO Services in Abu Dhabi

    Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly on the development of a new A380 MRO Services offering. With this partnership Airbus and Etihad Airways Engineering will combine their respective skills to offer the market a value-adding MRO service solution for worldwide A380 operators, starting in 2017. The…

  • Pictures of the day 2: Safran

    Helicopter engines Safran is the world’s leading manufacturer of gas turbine engines for both civil and military helicopters. We design, produce, sell and support a complete range of turbine engines for this market. More than 18,000 Turbomeca engines already power helicopters built by the world’s leading manufacturers: Airbus Helicopters, AVIC, Sikorsky, Bell Helicopter, Finmeccanica Helicopters…

  • China’s CDB Leasing places $1.26 billion CFM LEAP-1A engine order

    First Chinese lessor to order all LEAP engine models (-1A/-1B/-1C) CDB Leasing has selected CFM LEAP-1A engines to power 100 percent of its first batch of next generation single-aisle aircraft orders. The firm engine order is valued at $1.26 billion U.S. at list price and deliveries are scheduled between 2018 and 2021. “We believe our…

  • Safran Power Units announces new branding for latest generation business jet APUs

    Safran Power Units has announced the designation of its two latest APUs for the business jet market. These name changes are part of the full acquisition in 2014 from Pratt & Whitney of two strategic programs currently under development. These new names indicate the basic power rating in kilowatts of the turbines and the aircraft…

  • Pictures of the day: Airberlin

    The name airberlin evokes memories of the company’s inaugural flight from Berlin – the start of a success story which is unparalleled in the airline industry: on 28th April 1979, a Boeing 707 took off from Berlin-Tegel for Palma de Mallorca. This inaugural flight was the start of airberlin’s success story. Nowadays airberlin is at…

  • Royal Jordanian, InterContinental Hotels Group sign partnership agreement

    Royal Jordanian and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) in Jordan, owned by the Social Security Corporation, concluded a partnership agreement whereby Royal Jordanian’s frequent flyers – Royal Plus members – get the chance to obtain free miles against the money they spend at IHG hotels, which are InterContinental Resort Aqaba, Crowne Plaza Hotel Amman, Crowne Plaza…

  • Norwegian unlocks new Escape Lounge to Premium passengers at Oakland-San Francisco

    Low-cost airline Norwegian will give Premium passengers travelling to Gatwick from Oakland International Airport (OAK) free access to the airport’s brand new Escape Lounge from this month. Passengers flying in Norwegian’s Premium cabin on its award-winning low-cost flights from the Bay Area will benefit from complimentary access to the new Escape Lounge operated by Manchester Airports…