Lufthansa Technik is ramping up a programme to equip Lufthansa Group A320 aircraft with Ka-band technology.
The German airline’s semi-autonomous maintenance unit is equipping eight aircraft a week with radomes and antennas, together with internal wiring, on 10 maintenance lines at its facilities in Budapest, Hamburg, Malta and Sofia. The job takes three days, and the company is hoping to have fitted out 100 aircraft by May, says Lukas Bucher, head of connectivity.
The Lconnect programme “integrates all systems in such a way that no major work on the structure will be required for later advances in technology”, Bucher says.
Although Lufthansa Technik is currently only providing the installation to its parent group’s aircraft, “our objective is to deliver a superior customer service to Lufthansa Group and then to sell it to other airlines”, he says.
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Source: Flight Daily News
