Cebu Pacific has placed a firm order with Airbus for 70 A321neo, finalising an MoU announced by the airline in July. The purchase agreement was signed in Manila by Mike Szucs, CEO of Cebu Pacific and Benoît de Saint-Exupéry, EVP Sales of the Commercial Aircraft business at Airbus. Cebu Pacific operates 61 A320 Family aircraft on its extensive regional network. In addition it...
Embraer announced that SIAEP, a subsidiary of SIA Engineering Company Limited, is the first Embraer Authorized Service Center in the Asia-Pacific region to perform maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for Embraer’s E-Jets E2 family of aircraft. SIAEP has been an authorized service center in Asia-Pacific for Embraer’s first-generation E-Jets since 2017. SIAEP has three hangars loc...
Cessna SkyCourier twin utility turboprop has been awarded type certification by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, expanding aircraft ability to support operational activities in remote areas of southeast Asia. The first SkyCourier in the region – A 19-seat passenger variant – is planned to be delivered in the second half of 2025 to Leading Edge Air Services Corporat...
Dassault Aviation has opened a major new maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that will greatly enhance service for Falcon operators in Southeast Asia. Operating under the ExecuJet brand, the state-of-the-art factory service center will be able to support 10-15 aircraft at one time, including Dassault’s largest aircraft, the Falcon 6X, which recently ent...
At Singapore Airshow 2024 Lilium and PhilJets signed a MoU. The agreement includes the intent to purchase 10 Lilium Jets, as well as a future strategic collaboration on the establishment of an eVTOL operation network across the Philippines and other Southeast Asia countries, such as Cambodia. As part of the agreement, Lilium and PhilJets will partner to develop a future service...
For the first time in its history, Lufthansa Technik Philippines has completed the so-called twelve-year check on an Airbus A380, supporting the return of the world's largest passenger aircraft to the fleet of Lufthansa Airlines. After successfully completing the most extensive work package in its maintenance schedule last week, the A380 registered D-AIMC has returned to Germany. Elmar...
Lufthansa Technik Philippines welcomed Cebu Pacific first A330neo aircraft, RP-C3900, for its inaugural base maintenance on 17 November 2023. This marks the beginning of a series of maintenance events to support CEB’s growing A330neo fleet.The collaboration between the two companies began in 2011 with line maintenance for CEB’s narrow-body fleet and has since expanded to incl...
Embraer signed a Non-Binding MoU with SIAEP, a subsidiary of SIA Engineering Company Limited (“SIAEC”), that will explore further partnership to include maintenance, repair and overhaul services for Embraer’s E-Jets E2 family of aircraft. SIAEP has been an authorized service center in Asia-Pacific for Embraer’s first-generation E-Jets since 2017. Mr....
ALSIM announces the sale of an ALX to WCC Aeronautical and Technological College based in the Philippines. The ALSIM ALX provides up to 4 classes of aircraft-from single-engine piston, twin engine piston, twin turbine up to medium category twin jet. The device is designed and approved for ATPL, CPL, and MCC in compliance with all current regulatory standards. The ALX offers advanced tech...
Island Aviation has signed a firm purchase agreement to acquire two new Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft. Founded in 2003 as A. Soriano Aviation, Inc., Island Aviation is a charter airline based in the Philippines. Captain Emmanuel ("Butch") Generoso, Chief Operating Officer, Island Aviation,commented: "We selected the Twin Otter to support our operations beca...
Metrojet Engineering Clark, the philippines-based MRO station of Metrojet limited, has recently received its certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to work on the airframe, aircraft batteries and aircraft wheel assemblies of the Bombardier BD700-2A12 (Global 7500). MEC obtained the wheel assembly capability in June 2022. With the latest airframe and battery approval fr...
In a festive ceremony at the airport of Manila on August Lufthansa Technik Philippines recently officially opened a new hangar which supplements the existing seven maintenance lines by an additional three lines. The parking spaces of the new hangar can be configured according to need to provide room for four narrow-body aircraft, or one wide-body aircraft and two narrow-body aircraft. Alternativel...