Asia-Pacific Aerospace Briefs Today
September 7th 2021
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has signed a three-year contract extension with Australian-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider, Heston MRO. Under the agreement, Heston MRO will continue to provide MRO services such as full handling of aircraft transits, defect rectification, local warehousing and logistics support for all incoming and departing SIA passenger 777, 787, A350 and A380 aircraft at Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth airports as well as 747 freighter services at Melbourne. Read More » "We are extremely honored with the trust that Singapore Airlines Group puts in Heston MRO as its longstanding technical support partner in Australia," Heston MRO CEO, Asta Zirlyte, said.
Korean Air (KAL) has purchased a month of carbon-neutral jet fuel from partner, SK Energy, for use on domestic flights departing from Cheongju and Jeju. The fuel is considered carbon neutral as the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced from its production, transport and consumption were offset with carbon credits.
