Aviation Business News
• Craig Waters
Lufthansa Cargo has become the launch customer for Jettainer’s IoT-based Unit Load Device (ULD) tracking solution and has begun rolling the system out across its ULD fleet. The deployment is intended to increase transparency and operational efficiency in the carrier’s air-freight handling and asset management.
Skift
• Bulbul Dhawan
By Skift: Air India has a long history of financial troubles, and it is now taking an up front approach to discussing problems.
Vertical Mag
• Brent Bundy, March
By Vertical Mag: On the first day of Verticon 2026, Safran Helicopter Engines highlighted new developments in its expanding portfolio of digital services designed to enhance engine monitoring, improve maintenance efficiency, and reduce operating costs for helicopter operators.
Vertical Mag
By Vertical Mag: This relationship will provide R66 helicopter owners and operators with a Robinson-recommended MRO solution for abbreviated turnaround times and reduced costs.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: Lufthansa pilots' 48-hour strike on March 12-13 will disrupt flights, affecting tens of thousands of passengers amid pay disputes.
Vertical Mag
By Vertical Mag: The integration allows ARTEMIS mobile phone detection data to be displayed within HAT.tec’s SCALE mission system, improving situational awareness for helicopter crews.
Vertical Mag
By Vertical Mag: The new RotorLease platform will originate and manage rotorcraft lease transactions through Rotortrade’s U.S. leasing operation.
Reuters
By Reuters: The sole runway of Thailand's Phuket airport reopened late on Tuesday, Phuket's governor said, after an Air India Express plane suffered a problem with its nose wheel when landing, causing the runway to close for several hours.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
