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| Friday, 07/02/2012, 21:17:02 PM | | | | Iberia Maintenance Signs Contract to Repair Components for Vietnam Airlines | | | Comment | Send To E-mail | Print | | | | Iberia Maintenance has signed a contract to repair line replaceable units (LRUs) on Vietnam Airlines A320 fleet, including electro-hydraulic selectors and bypass valves. The "Time & Material" type contract has a three-year duration.
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The repair of these components will be carried out at Iberia Maintenance installations in Madrid, on a 220,000 m2 site adjacent to the airport that features seven hangars, a separate workshop, and engine bench-testing facilities. Among the customers of Iberia’s components workshop are airlines such as Air Nostrum, Finnair, SAS, and Vueling.
Vietnam Airlines, founded in April, 1989, is based in Hanoi, and serves 50 destinations around the world with its fleet of 70 aircraft, including Boeing B-777s, Airbus A330s, and A320-family units.
Iberia Maintenance serves the Iberia fleet and another 200 clients around the world, including Cathay Pacific, Xiamen Airlines, British Airways, Meridiana, Mexicana de Aviación, Continental Airlines, DHL, Air Europa and Spanair. In 2009 it conducted 220 C and D checks of aircraft, while inspecting and repairing 208 engines and some 55,000 aircraft components. Further projects include the opening of the world's first turbine blade workshop to use laser welding technology. With revenues of some 732.5 million euros in 2009, Iberia Maintenance ranks 9th worldwide among MROs.
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| | Mitsubishi sees strong MRJ orders in Europe and North America | | | Mitsubishi is confident its new Mitsubishi Regional Jet will find strong support in Europe and North America. The manufacturer expects to sell 1,000 MRJs over the next 20 years, and 30% of those are e ... | | |
| | BOC Aviation to Lease Two New A320-200 Aircraft to Spring Airlines | | | BOC Aviation has signed agreements for the lease of two new CFM56 powered Airbus A320-200s to Spring Airlines, the leading low-cost carrier in China. The first aircraft was delivered from Airbus facil ... | | |
| | ILA: Emirates orders 32 more Airbus A380s | | | Middle Eastern carrier Emirates has ordered another 32 Airbus A380s, the single biggest deal for the type. | | |
| | Vietnam Airlines formally joins SkyTeam | | | Vietnam Airlines became a member of SkyTeam Alliance today, paving the way for the Vietnamese national carrier to gain more international traffic. | | |
| | AirAsia X to seek public listing as independent airline | | | AirAsia X will be spun off into a standalone, publicly traded company with an IPO targeted for the second half of 2011, subject to market conditions, AirAsia Group said yesterday. The long-haul arm wa ... | | |
| | IATA revises forecast, predicts industry will earn $2.5 billion in 2010 | | | IATA yesterday forecast that the international airline industry will post a profit of $2.5 billion in 2010, a significant upgrade compared with its March prediction of a $2.8 billion loss. | | |
| | Air China Increases Capacity Air France Holds Fast | | | Airline chiefs gathering for their annual meeting in Berlin today face the biggest decision since the recession: whether to boost capacity as demand for travel surgesrestrict supply and focus on rais ... | | |
| | All Nippon Plans First 787 Overseas Flights in March | | | All Nippon Airways Co., the first customer of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner, plans to start flying the aircraft overseas in March, increasing international operations while rival Japan Airlines Corp. sl ... | | |
| | Bombardier hopeful of CSeries customer in China this year | | | Bombardier is growing ever more confident that it could score its first Chinese customer for the CSeries aircraft in the coming months. | | |
| | Hainan launches Shanghai-Brussels flights as China-Europe market strengthens | | | Hainan Airlines is seeing a marked improvement in the China-Europe market, with both demand and yield showing growth, GM-Europe Liang Pubin told this website Friday in Brussels as the carrier launched ... | | |
| | Qantas to Add A380 Melbourne-to-London, L.A. Flights (Update2) | | | Qantas Airways Ltd. plans to boost Airbus SAS A380 flights from Melbourne to London and Los Angeles as it expands its fleet of the world’s largest passenger plane. | | |
| | Garuda to Resume Europe Flights After EU Ban Ends | | | PT Garuda Indonesia, rated the world’s most-improved airline, will fly to Europe for the first time in six years today after the European Union eased a ban on the nation’s airlines following a series ... | | |
| | Bombardier quiet on CRJ production plan in advance of earnings release | | | Bombardier is remaining silent on whether it will further slash its CRJ regional jet production rate, but managements decision could be announced at the firms forthcoming fiscal 1Q earnings conference ... | | |
| | Lufthansa Favors New Engines for Airbus, Boeing Jets | | | Deutsche Lufthansa AG, operator of the biggest aircraft fleet in Europe, said it’s in favor of Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. putting new engines on their existing narrow- body models to help reduce operat ... | | |
| | Lufthansa Fills First A380s, Boosting Profit on Asia Routes | | | Deutsche Lufthansa AG said the extra seats on the Airbus SAS A380 superjumbo aircraft that join its fleet from today have been sold for coming months, boosting profitability on high-density routes to ... | | |
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