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FEATURE MRO IN ASIA
platform of solutions from components, Fhs component support solution for the
repairs and spare parts services, to region. all a380 rotables (landing gear
airframe maintenance, engineering and parts) will be located at sepang
and fleet technical management. Thai to support existing and future airbus
airways recently signed an Fhs contract customers – like Thai – under a full
THIS PAGE: with airbus to provide aircraft inventory support maintenance contract.
Like many other LCCs in Asia, and maintenance support for its a380 “This is another step forward for sae
Japan’s first low-cost airline fleet. The 15-year contract provides an sepang in its growth to offer customised
Peach flies Airbus’ A320neos.
extensive scope of a380 line replaceable solutions for airbus operators involving
OPPOSITE PAGE LEFT: units and spare parts availability, airframe, component and logistics”
AirAsia, the largest low-cost component repairs, logistics services, said Christophe Desages, Ceo of
airline in the Asia-Pacific and tools availability, as well as aPU and sepang aircraft engineering. But it
region, orders 200 Airbus nacelle services to Thai airways. means independents have to work
A320neo aircraft – making the “having airbus supporting our harder to maintain a proportional slice
largest booking ever placed aircraft inventory and maintenance of the mro pie.
for the A320 will enable us to optimise our a380
daily operations around the world,”
OPPOSITE PAGE RIGHT: said montree Jumrieng, mD of Thai
Indonesian’s Lion Air orders
201 737 MAXs and 29 Next- Technical Department. Late last year,
Generation 737-900ERs in a sepang aircraft engineering, a new
deal worth US$22.4 billion mro subsidiary company of eaDs at
– Boeing’s largest ever KLia, was appointed the performance-
commercial order based logistics partner for handling
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