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November 2018 - www.avitrader.com Managing AOGs Company profile Jetaire People on the Move MRO News latest appointments from around the world Editor‘s Page 2 Bombardier’s testing times ts been a pretty tough time at airplane maker other areas of Bombardier’s work away from the Bombardier of late . Following the news that it will C-Series . These are certainly uncertain times for the sell off its Q400 turboprop line, as many of us in families of those affected . the industry predicted, the Canadian firm just an- I Elsewhere though, Bombardier has said it will nounce [and not surprisingly] a corresponding job cut of almost 500 jobs in Northern Ireland . continue to expand its global customer support network adding a line maintenance station (LMS) Published monthly by The company, whose headquarters are in Canada, located at Le Bourget Airport near Paris . The new said it needed to reduce costs and improve effi- facility is the seventh line maintenance station to be AviTrader Publications Corp. ciency to help ensure its long-term competitiveness . opened in the past 18 months to support some of Suite 305, South Tower its MRO related activities . Its been reported that the firm announced this 5811 Cooney Road month that it was shelving 5,000 jobs across its That is some good news but these are very testing Richmond, British Columbia global operations . At the time, it said 3,000 posts times for Bombardier, their staff and families espe- V6X 3M1 would be lost at its Canadian locations . cially with the lead up to Christmas . We can only Canada wish them the very best . Around a quarter of the 4,000 workforce in Belfast Email: [email protected] work on the C-Series, manufacturing the wings, Keith Mwanalushi Tel: +1 (424) 644-6996 and unions have been warning of pressures on Editor www.avitrader.com Editorial Keith Mwanalushi, Editor Email: [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0) 7871 769 151 Design Volker Dannenmann, Layout & Design Email: [email protected] Mobile: +49 (0) 711 46910151 Advertising inquiries Jenny Vogel Head of Sales & Marketing Email: [email protected] Tel: +49 (0) 8761 346007 Cooperation between airlines and MRO support in cases of AOG is crucial. Photo: Keith Mwanalushi Registration AviTrader MRO is a subscription-free Contents monthly publication. To receive a personal copy in your MRO and Production News . 4 inbox every month, Finance News . 20 please click here to subscribe. 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In combining the know-how and expertise of a world leader in aircraft mainte- nance and those of a major OEM, AFI KLM E&M, via SCS, its joint venture with Sabena technics, and Liebherr are now able to offer high-level dedicated heat exchanger support solutions in terms of TAT and cost, for the ben- efit of their client airlines . GKN Aerospace steps into wide-body MRO market GKN Aerospace’s Fokker Techniek business has successfully completed its first major Air- bus A330 maintenance project . The aircraft was delivered to Air Europa at the begin- ning of November, marking another mile- stone in the company’s long history as an aircraft MRO . Air Europa (Spain) has previ- Magnetic MRO Painting team with airBaltic’s A220-300 in special livery ously awarded heavy maintenance projects Photo: Magnetic MRO for its 737 narrow-body fleet to GKN Aero- space’s Fokker Techniek business . Last year vides maintenance checks, repair and modi- Magnetic MRO paints airBaltic’s the company successfully performed a cabin fications of Spirit’s fleet of Airbus 319, 320 A220-300 in special livery modification package on another A330 . The and 321 aircraft at SAE’s state-of-the-art required training, tooling and equipment for Magnetic MRO has painted Latvian airline hangar facility located in Orlando Interna- wide-body maintenance have now all been airBaltic’s A220-300 aircraft in a unique tional Airport Florida . Additionally, SAE has obtained . Approvals and further commit- one-off livery, celebrating Latvia’s 100th accomplished the modification and instal- ments are secured to add this first wide-body birthday . One of the first A220 aircraft paint- lation of the Automatic Dependent Surveil- ed outside of OEM, the special project was lance – Broadcast (ADS-B) system – the first aircraft type to the portfolio . completed under secrecy in Magnetic MRO’s of its kind within the A320 aircraft family – Tallinn Paint Hangar in cooperation with air- for Spirit Airlines, which will become manda- Baltic and coatings partner AkzoNobel . The tory by the Federal Aviation Administration Cebu Pacific Air adds A321s to AFI special livery was unveiled at an official cer- (FAA) on January 1, 2020 . KLM E&M components contract emony at Riga Airport on Friday, November 9, in the presence of the President of Latvia, Cebu Pacific Air has expanded its compo- Raimonds Vējonis, and the CEO of Air Baltic, nent support contract with Air France In- Martin Gauss . The unique livery, depicting Singapore Component Solutions and Liebherr-Aerospace sign MRO coop- dustries KLM Engineering & Maintenance Latvia’s flag colors on the fuselage was ap- (AFI KLM E&M) to include seven A321ceo eration agreement plied onto airBaltic’s newest-generation air- and 32 A321neo aircraft . This is on top of craft, the A220-300 . The one-month-old air- Singapore Component Solutions (SCS), a the component support agreement signed craft registered as YL-CSL will now fly across joint venture between AFI KLM E&M and Sa- last year between Cebu Pacific and AFI KLM Europe and Asia, spreading the message of bena technics, dedicated to component sup- E&M covering its fleet of Airbus A320 air- Latvia’s 100th birthday . port for ATR and Airbus A320 aircraft fleets, craft . The array of services provided under and Liebherr-Aerospace, a leading supplier the long-term contract includes component of systems for the aviation industry, finalized repairs from Europe and Singapore, as well Sky Aerospace Engineering completes the signature of a cooperation agreement at as access to a local spares pool . The contract test flight of first Ka-band Wi-Fi instal- the MRO Asia-Pacific event . Under the terms extension bolsters AFI KLM E&M’s leader- lation for Spirit Airlines’ Airbus fleet of the agreement, Liebherr-Aerospace will as- ship position across the region, embodied in sist and support SCS in developing industrial particular through its local joint venture with Orlando, Florida-based MRO Sky Aerospace capabilities dedicated to the A320 heat ex- Sabena technics, Singapore Component Engineering (SAE) has completed a success- changers manufactured by Liebherr . SCS will Solutions (SCS), a component repair shop ful aircraft test flight after the modification thus join the Liebherr worldwide network for launched in September 2016 . Operating out of the first Spirit Airlines’ A320 family-series heat exchanger maintenance . Through this of Seletar international airport, with some aircraft . SAE has also completed the instal- partnership agreement, SCS will be qualified 6,500 m² of repair facilities, SCS is one of lation of the first Ka-band High Throughput to carry out maintenance work on Liebherr- the region’s leading multi-product and multi- Satellite (HTS) system fitted on A320 fam- designed heat exchangers – more precisely fleet players . SCS specializes in repairs for ily aircraft; the system provides high-speed from cleaning up to repairs, excluding reno- A320, A330, ATR and Fokker 100 fleets with web browsing and streaming . Sky Aerospace vation and reconstruction . In exchange, the a comprehensive offering for avionics, me- Engineering entered into an agreement with Air France-KLM Group will make use of Lieb- chanical and pneumatic components, along Spirit Airlines, headquartered in Miramar, herr services for work requiring the “recoring” with aerostructure, cabin and safety compo- Florida, in August 2018 . The agreement pro- (renovation, reconstruction) of defective heat nents . AviTrader MRO - November 2018 MRO and Production News 5 AAR’s flexibility for its customers in more than 100 countries around the world . “We are looking forward to a long and stable partner- ship with AAR,” said Bin Teng, General Man- ager of Marketing and Sales, Ameco . “Our relationship will prove beneficial to both par- ties over the next 15 years .” GA Telesis grows MRO business GA Telesis has reported a record third quarter for the Company . In the third quarter ending September 30, the group obtained both Chi- nese and Vietnamese regulatory approvals as well as deploying new product capabilities to support the A320, B737NG, and B777 . In JAL and OEM Services sign component support agreement January, the MRO Services Group announced Photo: OEMServices a long-term Repair and Overhaul License Agreement and Parts Supply Agreement with Japan Airlines awards OEMServices changes required to the aircraft’s wiring or Honeywell . During this same time period, the component support of its A350 fleet control panels . Airbus liTeMood® also deliv- Company added several new products to its ers a range of operational benefits, includ- existing agreement with Honeywell, which OEMServices and Japan Airlines have signed ing an MTBF in excess of 55,000 operating broadens the offerings to its customer base .