CCO NEWS

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Dec 17^th 2020 |

Jacco Klerk has been appointed CEO of Direct Maintenance. He has more than 20 years of experience in aircraft maintenance, in particular at Joramco, KLM Engineering or at Qualitair Aviation Group (Randstad group). He ...

With its own OCC, AKKA Technologies is optimizing airlines' flight operations

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jan 30^th 2020 |

Someone had to think of it. The AKKA Technologies group's aerospace branch has just opened a full Operations Control Centre (OCC) in its brand-new Toulouse premises to...

Nomination

Ryanair appoints Hélène Bégasse as PR & communications manager France, Benelux & Morocco

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Fri, Nov 22^nd 2019 |

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (22 Nov) announced the appointment of Hélène Bégasse to PR & Communicatio...

Maintenance is evolving at easyJet

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Oct 31^st 2019 |

EasyJet is constantly searching for efficiency and maintenance is not being left out. During a speech at the MRO Europe exhibition, Brendan McConnellogue, the airline's Director of Engineering and Maintenance, explain...

StandardAero accompanies ATR's return to the United States with Silver Airways

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Oct 31^st 2019 |

While the eyes of the maintenance world were riveted to the MRO Europe exhibition in October, agreements were still being signed in the rest of the world. This is true...

Nomination

Jamal Lemridi named Safran General Delegate in Morocco

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Mar 21^st 2019 |

Jamal Lemridi was named Safran General Delegate in Morocco on February 1, replacing Hamid Benbrahim El Andaloussi.Jamal Lemridi will represent Safran in relations with...

Air France-KLM gets boost from employee accord

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Oct 31^st 2018 |

Air France-KLM, hit badly earlier this year by strikes and management upheaval, reported Wednesday its third quarter net profit jumped nearly 23 percent year-on-year to 786 million euros ($900 million).Ben Smith, who...

Embattled Air France-KLM stock jumps as hotel group studies bid

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Jun 5^th 2018 |

Shares in Air France-KLM soared on Monday after French hotels group AccorHotels said it would be interested in taking a stake in the Franco-Dutch airline.Revelations ...

Safran and The Adecco Group sign strategic agreement to provide professional training

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Apr 5^th 2018 |

The "machinists' training platform for tomorrow's industry", created by an industry consortium* within the scope of F...

Metal 3D printing: THALES creates a global centre of expertise in Morocco

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Sept 14^th 2017 |

Thales supports Morocco's ambition to progress in the aerospace sector and is inaugurating its industrial Competence Centre in Casablanca, specialising in metal additi...

Ukraine wants Russia held to account over MH17 downing

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Jul 18^th 2017 |

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday insisted Russia must be held to account over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, three years on from the trag...

US laptop ban lifted in Egypt, Morocco

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jul 13^th 2017 |

Egypt and Morocco's airlines have said a ban against carry-on laptops on US-bound flights has been lifted, leaving only two Saudi airports under the restrictions put in place in March.Morocco's Royal Air Maroc said i...

'Troubled' man tries to enter cockpit on France-Morocco flight

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Mar 2^nd 2017 |

A passenger with "mental troubles" tried to enter the cockpit of a commercial flight from Paris to Casablanca in Morocco on Wednesday, Moroccan police said.A police st...

Qatar Airways’ 1st A350 accompanies its 4th A380 for delivery to Qatar

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Fri, Jan 2^nd 2015 |

Departing Toulouse on its delivery flight to Qatar Airways’ base in Doha, is the airline’s first A350 XWB accompanied by its big sister A380 – the fourth for Qatar Air...

Boeing Partners with South African Airways to Turn New Tobacco Plant into Jet Fuel

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Aug 6^th 2014 |

Boeing, South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG announced today they are collaborating to make sustainable aviation bi...