German maintenance and completions specialist Lufthansa Technik (booth A421) has added domestic airline Japan Transocean Air to its Japanese customer list, which also includes Japan Airlines, All-Nippon Airways, low-cost start-up Starflyer and Skymark Airlines.
And Indian low-cost carrier Kingfisher has contracted the company to provide component support for its fast-growing Airbus A320 fleet.
Under a five-year contract LHT will supply total component maintenance (TCM) support for Japan Transocean’s 23 Boeing 737-400s, setting up a holding of more than 200 part numbers and providing repairs at the carrier’s Okinawa hub.
Announcing the new business here yesterday, Lufthansa Technik chairman August Henningsen added: “Asian Aerospace 2006 is as important to us as any edition of the show we’ve attended in the last 16 years. Our commitment to Asia-Pacific is getting bigger and bigger.”
LHT employs 6,800 people, from a worldwide total of more than 25,000, in its operations in the Philippines, Shenzhen and Beijing in China, and Malaysia. The company has just announced a contract for Airbus A330 heavy maintenance for UK carrier BMI at the Philippines facility. “We have more new customers in the pipeline,” said Henningsen.
Based at Shenzhen Baoan airport, China’s fourth-largest, Lufthansa Technik Shenzhen provides repairs for major composite components, using the first and still the only aerospace-rated autoclave in mainland China. Last month it added the PW4000 thrust-reverser to the range of major airframe components it can handle. Others include the CFM International CFM56-3 and General Electric CF6-80C2 reversers and the International Aero Engines V2500 air intake.
Lufthansa Technik partner Ameco Beijing has just launched a $100 million expansion programme, following a recent 25-year extension of its agreement with the German company. In the first stage a four-bay widebody maintenance hangar is to be built close to the future Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital airport. Also in the plan are a hangar for Boeing 747 and 767 overhauls and expanded facilities for engine work.
Turning to LHT’s corporate and VIP completions business, Henningsen said: “I see big potential for our Airbus A318 Elite and Boeing BBJ Leadership Select programmes in Asia-Pacific, with significant demand coming from China and India in particular.” He said that LHT held confirmed orders for 13 A318 Elites, with the first aircraft due to enter work in Hamburg at the beginning of next year.
Questioned on progress with LHT’s A380 VIP programme, first revealed last year, Henningsen said: “We’ve had a number of requests for proposals. We were sure there was a market for the A380 VIP and that has now been confirmed.”
Two other Lufthansa Group companies, Lufthansa Logistik and Lufthansa Cargo, yesterday signed a letter of intent with spares specialist the Memphis Group covering spare-parts logistics and inventory management for an undisclosed airline customer in Singapore.
And Indian low-cost carrier Kingfisher has contracted the company to provide component support for its fast-growing Airbus A320 fleet.
Under a five-year contract LHT will supply total component maintenance (TCM) support for Japan Transocean’s 23 Boeing 737-400s, setting up a holding of more than 200 part numbers and providing repairs at the carrier’s Okinawa hub.
Announcing the new business here yesterday, Lufthansa Technik chairman August Henningsen added: “Asian Aerospace 2006 is as important to us as any edition of the show we’ve attended in the last 16 years. Our commitment to Asia-Pacific is getting bigger and bigger.”
LHT employs 6,800 people, from a worldwide total of more than 25,000, in its operations in the Philippines, Shenzhen and Beijing in China, and Malaysia. The company has just announced a contract for Airbus A330 heavy maintenance for UK carrier BMI at the Philippines facility. “We have more new customers in the pipeline,” said Henningsen.
Based at Shenzhen Baoan airport, China’s fourth-largest, Lufthansa Technik Shenzhen provides repairs for major composite components, using the first and still the only aerospace-rated autoclave in mainland China. Last month it added the PW4000 thrust-reverser to the range of major airframe components it can handle. Others include the CFM International CFM56-3 and General Electric CF6-80C2 reversers and the International Aero Engines V2500 air intake.
Lufthansa Technik partner Ameco Beijing has just launched a $100 million expansion programme, following a recent 25-year extension of its agreement with the German company. In the first stage a four-bay widebody maintenance hangar is to be built close to the future Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital airport. Also in the plan are a hangar for Boeing 747 and 767 overhauls and expanded facilities for engine work.
Turning to LHT’s corporate and VIP completions business, Henningsen said: “I see big potential for our Airbus A318 Elite and Boeing BBJ Leadership Select programmes in Asia-Pacific, with significant demand coming from China and India in particular.” He said that LHT held confirmed orders for 13 A318 Elites, with the first aircraft due to enter work in Hamburg at the beginning of next year.
Questioned on progress with LHT’s A380 VIP programme, first revealed last year, Henningsen said: “We’ve had a number of requests for proposals. We were sure there was a market for the A380 VIP and that has now been confirmed.”
Two other Lufthansa Group companies, Lufthansa Logistik and Lufthansa Cargo, yesterday signed a letter of intent with spares specialist the Memphis Group covering spare-parts logistics and inventory management for an undisclosed airline customer in Singapore.
Source: Flight Daily News
