Aviation

GA Telesis Announces the Purchase and Leaseback of Six Embraer E170 Aircraft with Republic Airline

GA Telesis Announces the Purchase and Leaseback of Six Embraer E170 Aircraft with Republic Airline

October 19, 2017– Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC. (“GAT”) announces the completion of a purchase and leaseback transaction of six Embraer E170 aircraft with Republic Airline (“Republic”). GAT completed the acquisition of six Embraer E170 aircraft from Republic Airline earlier this month.  Simultaneous with the purchase, the aircraft were placed on long term leases with Republic.  The aircraft will be operated by Republic under a long term fixed fee capacity purchase agreement.  This… Read more

GA Telesis Appoints Kevin Ford, Director of Business Development for Asia-Pacific Region

GA Telesis Appoints Kevin Ford, Director of Business Development for Asia-Pacific Region

October 16, 2017– Fort Lauderdale, Florida – GA Telesis, LLC. (“GAT”) announces the appointment of Kevin Ford as Director of Business Development for the Asia-Pacific Region. Kevin brings more than 30 years of experience in fleet management, managerial and technical operations, aviation consulting, as well as, senior roles in service quality and team development. Mr. Ford joins GA Telesis from Air New Zealand, having served as Aircraft Leasing and Trading Manager since 2006. Prior to… Read more

GA Telesis and Czech Airlines Technics Sign Letter of Intent to Form Partnership

GA Telesis and Czech Airlines Technics Sign Letter of Intent to Form Partnership

October 4, 2017 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Prague, Czech Republic  GA Telesis, LLC (“GA Telesis”) and Czech Airlines Technics (“CSAT”) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to form an integrated supply chain partnership to support GA Telesis’ new ATR fleet iGEAR support service. With today’s announcement, GA Telesis will begin providing ATR fleet operators with an integrated flight hour support program with CSAT providing repair and consignment pooling in… Read more

A Vicious Cycle or No Cycle at All / By Abdol Moabery

A Vicious Cycle or No Cycle at All / By Abdol Moabery

The airline and aviation industry is evolving — and rapidly. Far are we from the days of the 8-10 year repetitive cycle that caused sector-wide devastation. If we look back at the last 30 years, the industry down-cycles have been brought forth by events such as regional and global recessions, oil price spikes, terrorism, disease epidemic and of course airline labor issues. Today, I sat through an aviation investment panel with six industry experts and my… Read more

GA Telesis Appoints Dave Dicken as Vice President of Airframe Solutions Group

GA Telesis Appoints Dave Dicken as Vice President of Airframe Solutions Group

Fort Lauderdale, Florida – August 15, 2017 – GA Telesis, LLC (“GAT”) announces the appointment of Dave Dicken as Vice President of its Airframe Solutions Group (“ASG”).  ASG is the 2nd largest operating unit within the company’s Component Solutions Group (“CSG”) and has oversight of all global airframe component offerings.  Dave, who previously served as GAT’s Director of Strategic Sourcing, will now be responsible for supporting the airframe component sales and operations teams in the Americas,… Read more

GA Telesis Engine Services Hits Stride in 2014

GA Telesis Engine Services Hits Stride in 2014

Helsinki, Finland – December 9, 2014 – GA Telesis Engine Services (“GATES”) continues to build on its successes with another strong year in 2014.  The Helsinki, Finland based Engine MRO has added three new customers to their clientele this year, in addition to completing overhaul services on a heavily work-scoped CF6 engine in a shop-record time of just 57 days.  GATES was also able to complete performance restoration on a CFM56-5B engine in a world-class… Read more