Aircraft Maintenance News

Fujitsu and Boeing plan to jointly develop a new efficient aircraft maintenance system using Fujitsu’s smart tags that can be attached to aircraft components and other equipment. The tags show when...

Horizon Air technicians have ratified a new four-year contract with the company, with immediate effect. Some 65% of the 72% Horizon who voted were in favour of the agreement. As part of the agreeme...

An Emirates 777 aircraft bound for Colombo returned to Dubai International Airport 20 minutes after it took off due to a technical failure. The aircraft landed safely and passengers took off on a s...

Air Mauritius and Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey (LTAA) have signed an exclusive agreement for the maintenance, repair and overhaul services of the fleet of PW127 engines. They are powering Air Mauritiu...

Canada’s Vector Aerospace Group has attracted potential takeover interest from Triumph Group, L-3 Communications Holdings as well as some private equity firms. Scotia Capital is advising Vector Aerosp...

Pratt & Whitney Canada has been given $300 million in government funds towards a $1 billion research project to develop a next generation of high-performance aircraft engines. Ministers hope the i...

Goodrich Corporation has entered into a nacelle services agreement with Air Arabia. Under the 10-year contract, Goodrich will support nacelles and thrust reversers in the airline’s fleet of more th...

Angolan Airline, TAAG, administrator, Rui Carreira has stated that the airline is facing technical constraints as the country does not yet have the facilities to maintain 777 aircraft. “The Boeing...

Another Flybe Q400 aircraft has lost an engine access door on take-off from Southampton airport just two months after a similar incident happen in Jersey. The access door fell off the Q400 aircraf...

Lufthansa Technik and Wizz Air have extended the scope of their already close cooperation to Romania and the Czech Republic. According to a new five-year-contract, Lufthansa Technik Maintenance Inte...

Australia’s aviation regulator, the Australian Transport Safety Authority, has revealed that three more Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines have been removed from service for further checks by airlines, a...

The Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) has expressed concern that a Qantaslink airline (Sunstate) has deducted pay from over 20 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers salaries. The union belie...