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Maintenance providers AAR and Airod plan to open a joint venture facility at Kuala Lumpur s Subang airport to service landing gear for potential Asian airline customers. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding last month, but the planned joint venture will not be formally established until a launch customer is secured.Industry sources say the Malaysian and US companies have submitted bids in response to maintenance tenders from several Asian airlines, includ adidas samba og ing Malaysia Airlines MAS . They say the facility is likely to service MAS Boeing 737 landing gear initially and then add larger aircraft types.AAR and Airod are preparing to establish a new, as-yet unnamed, joint-venture company. About 30 to 40 Airod engineers will be trained by AAR and employed by the joint venture. The joint venture gives AAR its first facility in Asia. The company now has only a customer service and sales office in Singapore.AAR currently sends all landing gear to its Florida facility, including from Asian customers such as Vietnam Airlines. The company believes opening a facility in Malaysia will improve its chances of winning contract af1 s from Asian airlines. It s tough to ship landing gear half-way round the world and be competitive, says one industry source.For Airod, the joint venture furthers its plan to diversify its business, which now caters predominantly for the military sector. Airod s small commercial aircraft maintenance capability is currently li yeezy mited to airframe overhauls of Vjef Farnborough: P W parts display fuels CFM spat

Source: Par. Pics SEGASonic The Hedgehog 3UK cinema admissions increased 2.3% in 2024 compared to the previous year, but the average ticket price fell, according to figures from the Cinema Advertising Association.The total number of admissions in 2024 was 126.5 million.Overall, thebox office takings for 2024have remained flat year-on-year across UK-Ireland, at 拢1.06bn 鈥?just 0.2%, or 拢3m down from 2023, and 8% up on 2022.December was the strongest month of t adidas originals he year, with 15.7million admissions, almost 36% up on the same month in 2023. November admissions were 77% up on the same month in 2023.Films released in November that boosted the box office at the end of the year included ParamountsGladiator II, Universals Wicked and Studiocanals Padd yeezy usa ington In Peru. December saw the release of Disneys Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramounts Sonic The Hedgehog 3.Cross-industry body Cinema First, which promotes UK cinemagoing, points towards the success of the tentpole releases from the summer onwards as confirming that when the films are there, audiences return. When great films are combined with all of the investments we have seen in the modern cinema environment, audiences follow their passion for a fantastic trip out, saidIain Jacob, chair of Ci owala website nema First.France is understood to be the only other European territory in which admissions rose in 2024, up 0.5% on 2023 according to Comscore/CNC figures.Average ticket price has gone down from 拢7.92 in 2023 to 拢7.73 in 2024. One factor in