25 OCTOBER 2021

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Article from BTNews 25 OCTOBER 2021

Aircraft maintenance Amsterdam

The magazine Aviation Week’s annual MRO Europe, Europe’s largest aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul gathering, returned as an in person event last week at Amsterdam’s RAI Convention Centre Alison Chambers reports.

Some 7,000-registered delegates, 250 global exhibitors, including Etihad Engineering, Airbus, Boeing and Embraer, reconnected with industry colleagues.  

Workforce concern was a recurring theme at MRO Europe.   

A newly published survey by Exeter-based JMC Recruitment Solutions (JMC) highlighted that professionals are continuing to leave the sector and move into mechanical engineering, building services, IT, and other less Covid-affected industries.  JMC polled nearly 4,000 respondents in the UK and Europe, including B1 & B2 licensed engineers, aircraft fitters/mechanics, and sheet metal workers, to learn that 38% have moved to an industry outside of aviation.

One German company is retraining automotive engineers to aviation engineering, backed by the LBA, the German civil aviation authority.  

“It’s not Covid that will kill you here, it’s the cyclists,” one observer quipped, as they whizzed along, criss-crossing the roads. 

Heavy rain and high winds disrupted flights on 19 October, forcing British Airways and KLM to cancel some departures back to London.  Those that took off were 100% full.  Security at Schiphol has been enhanced with sleek, state-of-the-art baggage screening machines that do not require laptops to be removed from covers, nor 100gm liquids placed in plastic bags.  Notable too, once airside, was a lack of restaurant staff and shop assistants. Several outlets were closed.  British Airways has yet to re-open its business lounge but the Aspire lounges were busy.   

https://mroeurope.aviationweek.com

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