Sanad, the global aerospace engineering and leasing solutions leader wholly owned by Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company PJSC (Mubadala), welcomed His Excellency Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Director General of the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), to its facilities in Abu Dhabi. His Excellency Al Suwaidi praised the company’s exceptional aircraft engine maintenance,Read More

Turkish Technic has recently entered into a Component Support Agreement with Citilink, a prominent budget airline based in Indonesia. This new agreement focuses on Citilink’s Airbus A320 fleet, allowing the airline to leverage Turkish Technic’s expertise in component support and services. Under the terms of the agreement, Citilink will have access to Turkish Technic’s comprehensiveRead More

At the Farnborough International Airshow, Flynas and Airbus celebrated a significant milestone with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the acquisition of 75 A320neo family aircraft and 15 A330-900s. The ceremony was attended by prominent figures, including Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Duailej, President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) of SaudiRead More

Airbus and Avolon have announced their collaboration to explore the financing and commercialization of future hydrogen-powered aircraft. This partnership will also examine how the leasing business model could support the adoption of such technology. Airbus introduced its ZEROe initiative in 2020, aimed at developing hydrogen-powered aircraft and the necessary ecosystem to facilitate hydrogen flight. AvolonRead More

Recently at the Farnborough Airshow, Qatar Airways announced its order of 20 additional Boeing 777-9 aircraft. This order brings the airline’s total commitment to nearly 100 planes in the 777X family. Earlier this year, this order was finalized and had been previously listed as unidentified on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website. Qatar Airways has beenRead More

Vallair, the multi-disciplinary MRO and mature aircraft asset specialist, and the College de Paris International have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate across a broad spectrum of aeronautical skills training, certification and development programmes which will be delivered by Aircraft Academy, a Vallair Group company. Grégoire Lebigot, President of Vallair Group, comments: “TheRead More

Business aircraft flight activity last month fell 3.4% year over year (YOY), with North America down 4.9% and Europe falling 8%, offset by an 18.5% increase in the rest of the world, according to TraqPak data from Argus International. The company’s analysts had forecast a 3.2% decline in North America; for July, they expect flyingRead More

Türkiye’s growing domestic defence industry is seeking to expand into a growing export market. However, the country’s economic and political issues threaten to undermine this potential, as poor fiscal policy, authoritarian politics, and erosion of an independent central banking system have limited Western investment, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData’s latest report,Read More