Martinair’s heavy maintenance checks to Finnair Technical Services
FinnAir
May 2 2005
Finnair Technical Services and Dutch airline Martinair have signed
an important maintenance contract, which covers the upcoming heavy
maintenance checks for five Martinair’s MD-11 cargo aircraft. The
agreement contains an option for a sixth aircraft.
The first maintenance event, lasting almost a month, has been scheduled
to start 14 May. The three next maintenance checks have been planned
for January, February and March 2006. The fifth aircraft is expected to
come in for servicing in January 2007 and the sixth aircraft possibly
at the end of that year.
“According to Martinair’s assessment, Finnair’s offer was the most
competitive when, in addition to the fixed price, quality, aircraft
turnaround time and our reliability were taken into account,” says
Assistant Vice President Sari Kanerva from Finnair Technical Services.
Martinair, founded in 1958, is a private airline company operating
scheduled, charter and cargo traffic from Amsterdam’s Schiphol
Airport. The airline carries almost two million passengers annually
to various Mediterranean destinations and it also has flights to
Florida, Canada, the Caribbean and Far East holiday destinations.
More than half of the company’s revenues come from cargo traffic. In
total the airline operates to approximately 100 destinations with
its fleet of 19 aircraft.
Of Finnair Technical Services’s approximately 200 million euro
turnover, one third comes from maintenance contracts with third-party
customers the largest of which are Aeroflot and Lufthansa Cargo. Last
summer a contract was signed for the maintenance support of four
Aeroflot DC-10s. Finnair Technical Services has been providing
maintenance support to Lufthansa Cargo’s MD-11s for seven years
already. This spring the company has received clients from even
further east: Armenian Armavia Aircompany serviced one of its A320 at
Finnair Technical Services in March and Chinense Xianjing Airlines’
ATR 72 aircraft was undergoing heavy maintenance until mid-April.