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• Daniel Martinez Garbuno
WestJet plans to build a 6,782-square-metre (73,000-square-foot) aircraft maintenance hangar at AirLink Business Park on the western side of Winnipeg International Airport. The project will make the Calgary-based airline the development’s first anchor tenant.
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WestJet plans to build a 6,782-square-metre (73,000-square-foot) aircraft maintenance hangar at AirLink Business Park on the western side of Winnipeg International Airport. The project will make the Calgary-based airline the development’s first anchor tenant.
Iberia has agreed to sell Japanese trading house ITOCHU Corporation a minority stake in IAG Engine Tech, its engine-maintenance subsidiary. The deal brings an outside investor into the airline group's maintenance business; the announcement provides no valuation, stake size or transaction timeline.
Jet Aviation, the Switzerland-based business aviation services provider, is set to resume operations involving Embraer aircraft. The available report does not specify the scope, timing or aircraft types involved.
The companies are partnering on the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Center Console Refresh effort, which aims to address obsolescence in the aging tanker’s avionics and fuel systems. The work targets a strategically important aircraft that remains part of the Air Force’s tanker fleet.
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The selection covers the 101 Airbus narrowbodies China Eastern ordered earlier this year and includes spare engines and a long-term services agreement. It preserves the airline’s LEAP-1A choice across its A320neo fleet; deliveries, including A321XLRs, are due from 2028 through 2032.
A Southwest 737 Max was released to service after an operational test failed to identify impairment to its fin and rudder unit. The case highlights a maintenance-procedure lapse that left gust damage undetected.
Copa Airlines has migrated to IFS Cloud for Aviation Maintenance, becoming the first airline customer of industrial AI software company IFS to move to ICAM. The announcement identifies a completed customer migration, but provides no details on deployment scope, timing or operational outcomes.
Korean Air plans to purchase $19.8 million worth of maintenance, repair and overhaul parts from Air Busan. The available report does not specify the parts involved, the timing of the purchase or how they will be used.
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