Demand from Asian customers continues to keep Lufthansa Technik's completions division busy, with the company's orderbook for the region stretching out until 2014.
Lufthansa Technik delivered a total of eight Airbus Corporate Jets and Boeing Business Jets to Asian customers between January 2012 and February 2013. A further BBJ will be handed over to China's Nanshan Group in the second quarter of 2013 and there are three additional narrowbody completions - two BBJs and one ACJ318 - on order from Asian customers, it says.
"The Asian - especially the Chinese - VIP aircraft market is significantly increasing every year," says Walter Heerdt, senior vice-president marketing and sales at Lufthansa Technik.
"Our current completion projects give us a very good capacity utilisation until the end of 2014 and we have some promising talks with potential customers beyond this date."
But despite the growing demand from the region, Lufthansa Technik is cool on locating a completions centre in Asia.
The company's two outfitting facilities are in Hamburg, Germany, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Our customers want quality and the location, whether it is in Germany or in China, is not an issue for them," adds Heerdt.
Source: Flight International
