Leasing companies as the new players on the aircraft parts playground

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes With air transportation vividly developing across the globe, the aircraft aftermarket is increasingly attracting the attention from outside of the industry. Recently several UK-based aviation companies have secured a total of $9 million worth of investments from non-aviation financial institutions. The money will be used for the production of new and the expansion of restored

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Surviving in the aftermarket: challenges for the new generation of regional aircraft

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes With airlines still struggling to battle oil prices while trying to optimize their passenger traffic and route networks, aircraft manufacturers are faced with the demand for new, more cost efficient generation of regional aircraft. But the leading producers of regional jets are not the only ones that have decided to modernize their products: the new

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Antonov family aircraft are to establish a global online spare parts stock

2020-09-09 / 2 min

Reading Time: 2 minutes Locatory.com, an IT company supporting the aviation industry with IT-based Supply Chain Optimisation solutions worldwide, and UAC-Antonov, a Joint Venture company between the Russian United Aircraft Corporation and the Ukrainian Antonov Company, have signed a partnership agreement, according to which the parties will establish an online stock of parts and components for Antonov (An) family

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A350: Supply Chain challenges for the latest generation aircraft

2020-09-09 / 3 min

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last Friday, 14th June, 2013 a long-range, wide-body A350 successfully took off the ground for the very first time. The A350 model comes as the latest and the most technologically advanced Airbus commercial aircraft, over half of which is made up of various composite materials. However, in an attempt to save several years while developing

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Engineering – the Aviation Maintenance Holding joins the Locatory.com platform

2020-09-09 / 2 min

Reading Time: 2 minutes Locatory.com, an IT company supporting the aviation industry with IT-based Supply Chain Optimisation solutions worldwide, is further expanding its already extensive list of online spare parts trading platform partners. The company has recently signed a cooperation agreement with Engineering – the Aviation Maintenance Holding which is the largest independent MRO service provider in Russia. According

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Summer season 2013 might prove costly for airlines operating in Europe

2020-09-09 / 2 min

Reading Time: 2 minutes The summer is rapidly approaching and the majority of airlines have already launched their summer season programmes with hundreds of new routes on their updated schedules. However, tighter schedules mean every second costs for airlines, particularly for the European carries. With the mechanical malfunction to be ruled out from the list of extraordinary circumstances, airlines

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