Stay Informed on Corporate Sustainability

Author: Archie Villaflores

PwC Ireland's Aviation Finance Outlook 2026 identifies generative AI as the single most important operational transformation available to aircraft lessors this year. For Irish aviation finance executives, the window to lead on GenAI adoption is open now and will not remain so indefinitely.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Indonesian MRO provider GMF AeroAsia has completed a Boeing 737-800 main landing gear overhaul for Thai cargo carrier K-Mile Air, delivered on schedule despite corrosion findings requiring additional technical coordination.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Philippine Airlines and regional carrier PAL Express have adopted Conduce's eTechLog8 Electronic Technical Logbook, transitioning to fully paperless flight deck operations as part of a broader digital transformation programme.

Author: Archie Villaflores

UK regional carrier Loganair has signed a 15-year sustainable aviation fuel offtake agreement with ClimaHtech Green Flight, with fuel deliveries scheduled to commence by 2029 across its Scottish and regional network.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Shannon-based aircraft painting company International Aerospace Coatings has been acquired by US private equity firm H.I.G. Capital from Tiger Infrastructure Partners in a deal marking the 46-year-old company's latest ownership change.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Irish carrier Aer Lingus has launched a new nonstop service between Pittsburgh International Airport and Dublin, operating four times weekly and bringing Aer Lingus's North American network to 24 routes from Ireland.

Author: Archie Villaflores

In a throwback to the Aviation Industry Awards 2025, Airbus International Services was shortlisted for the Green Impact Award for its Green Helicopter project, a circular economy initiative that challenged conventional assumptions about what happens to aircraft at the end of their operational lives and demonstrated how the aerospace sector can extract significant environmental value from a process that has historically generated substantial waste. As the Aviation Industry Awards 2026 cycle approaches, the project's application of circular economy principles to end-of-life helicopter management sets a compelling benchmark for the organisations now preparing their entries.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Looking back to the Aviation Industry Awards 2025, Belfast City Airport was shortlisted for the Excellence in Aviation Training Award for the High Flyers Apprenticeship Programme, a structured pathway into aviation careers that has been developing technically proficient, safety-conscious professionals since its establishment in 2013. As the Aviation Industry Awards 2026 cycle approaches, the programme's decade-long record of combining hands-on experience with formal qualification sets a compelling benchmark for the organisations now preparing their entries.

Author: Archie Villaflores

A new KPMG Ireland report identifies MRO as aviation's most structurally constrained sector, shifting from cost line to value driver as demand outpaces capacity. For Irish aviation executives spanning airlines, lessors, and airports, the findings offer both a diagnosis and a clear action agenda.

Author: Archie Villaflores

Philippine MRO provider Dornier Technology is expanding its Clark International Airport facility with a second hangar now operational and a third scheduled for completion by the end of Q3 2026.