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Pratt & Whitney to adapt its Maine facility to add PW1100G-JM MRO capabilities

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Jul 3^rd 2020 |

Pratt & Whitney will invest $ 12.5 million in its North Berwick facility (Maine) to add GTF MRO Capabilities. More specifically, the factory will perform maintenance...

Berlin announces temporary part-nationalisation for Lufthansa

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, May 25^th 2020 |

Berlin will climb aboard airline giant Lufthansa as its largest shareholder in a nine-billion-euro ($9.8 billion) rescue if investors and competition authorities agree...

British Airways parent dives into huge quarterly loss

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, May 7^th 2020 |

British Airways owner IAG said Thursday it plunged into the red in the first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic grounded planes, adding that pre-crisis passenger dem...

Lufthansa says Bern to offer 1.2 bn-euro state-backed loan to Swiss subsidiaries

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Apr 30^th 2020 |

German airline giant Lufthansa said Wednesday that Bern had agreed to offer state-backed loans of around 1.2 billion...

Air France-KLM warns of worse to come after virus hits passenger numbers

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Mar 10^th 2020 |

Air-France KLM warned Tuesday the coronavirus outbreak will hit its business harder in coming months after February passenger numbers fell 0.5 percent overall as flig...

With MRO SmartHub, IATA wants to reduce its members' maintenance costs

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

The IATA's services portfolio expands a little more each year. The association has created a new tool to make operations easier for its member airlines, this time in t...

MRO Asia-Pacific 2019: A Special Report to be published on 25th September

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Sept 16^th 2019 |

As we do each year, Le Journal de l'Aviation will cover the MRO Asia-Pacific event which will be held on 25th and 26th September in Singapore. A Special Report will...

Nomination

John O’Donnell named CEO of Safran Aerosystems and Sébastien Weber named CEO of Safran Passenger Solutions

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Jul 11^th 2019 |

Effective July 1, 2019, John O'Donnell has been named Chief Executive Officer of Safran Aerosystems and Sébastien Web...

Thales acquires Psibernetix for decisive technologies in artificial intelligence

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Jun 12^th 2019 |

Thales announces it has acquired the artificial intelligence (AI) company Psibernetix to help create Certifiable AI. ...

Nomination

Airbus Helicopters appoints new Executive Committee members

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Feb 7^th 2019 |

Alain Flourens, 61, currently Head of Engineering for Airbus Helicopters, has been appointed Head of Industry for Airbus Helicopters, following Christian Cornille&rsqu...

Airbus hit by 'cyber incident'

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jan 31^st 2019 |

The European aerospace group Airbus said Wednesday it had detected an incident that "resulted in unauthorised access to data" in its commercial aircraft division.The group "detected a cyber incident on Airbus 'Commer...

Nomination

Bruno Bergoend named Safran Senior Vice President, Airbus and ATR Programs

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Jan 10^th 2019 |

Effective January 1, 2019, Bruno Bergoend has been appointed Senior Vice President, Airbus and ATR Programs at Safran and Vice President, Public Affairs for the Occita...

Ryanair flies record number of passengers in 2018

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jan 3^rd 2019 |

Ryanair flew more than 139 million passengers last year, a record high, as the contribution by an Austrian subsidiary offset the effects of strikes, the Irish no-frills carrier said Thursday.The number of passengers ...

Alberto Gutiérrez appointed Head of Military Aircraft at Airbus Defence and Space

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Dec 12^th 2018 |

Airbus SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) has appointed Alberto Gutiérrez, 56, Head of Military Aircraft within Airbus D...

Barbara Bergmeier Appointed Head of Operations

JOB & CAREER | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Nov 29^th 2018 |

Airbus Defence and Space has appointed Barbara Bergmeier, 50, as Head of Operations and Member of the Executive Committee, effective 1 December 2018. She succeeds André-Hubert Roussel, 53, who will become Chief Execut...