The group’s support and engineering business, saw a drop in the spares business as airlines consolidated existing spares stocks and cut back on new orders, but this was partly offset by a strong performance in the engineering business in winning new work from manufacturers, including the award of engineering work on the new 70-90 seat twin-engine Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) from Japan. Current customers for the MRJ are All Nippon Airways and Trans States Holdings of the USA.