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Air Serbia and Lufthansa Technik have signed a minimum five-year contract to provide Total Component Support for their current and future Airbus A320-family fleet. The contract includes comprehensive MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) services as well as spare parts pooling and homebase services for the required components in Belgrade starting from January 2024. Air Serbia’s CEO, Jiri Marek, said, “We have ambitious goals for our airline, and if we look toward the end of the next decade, our airline could have more than fifty aircraft. This requires a reliable partner that supports us with the best possible services - also at our home base in Belgrade. The partnership with Lufthansa Technik will therefore contribute to the operational excellence for Air Serbia.”. Kai-Stefan Roepke, Senior Vice President Corporate Sales EMEA at Lufthansa Technik, added, “We are very pleased to be selected by Air Serbia as their preferred partner for the component support of their Airbus A320ceo family fleet. Our modern component services offer excellent quality and will enable our customer Air Serbia to achieve top performance”. Lufthansa Technik has been supporting Air Serbia with landing gear and other services for its A320-family fleet since 2020.
Can't find the exact words......just a shame for JAT Technic .
ReplyDeleteWell what do you expect from a ruined leftovers of former company. If state steps in and allocates financial help, maybe we could see Tehnika operating again.
DeleteState? NOPE, this is private company. Let them clean their own mess..
DeleteWho was their previous pool provider if any at all?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are reducing the risk to not rely on just Turkish tehnik. Or even to leverage the inclusion of Lufthansa against turkish to get better deal with them.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the reason. I hope this will soon result in JU creating their own MRO provider in Belgrade.
Maybe they are reducing risk from relying only on Turkish, or even using the presense of Lufthansa as leverage in negotiations with Turkish tehnik.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the reason I hope it will soon result in JU establishing their own MRO provider next year or in 2025.
I guess component maintenance was a separate RFP and unlike airframe maintenance, a large portion of repair work is with the OEMs of the components or with one of the few specialised maintenance facilities (mostly Western Europe & the US).
DeleteThe larger the pool, the lower the cost per flight hour.
Hence, unlike with airframe maintenance, the low staff cost in Turkey (even lower with the current inflation) probably did not matter that much when making this desicion.
The main driver most probably was the component cost per air frame per hour.
I hope this plan will provide them with the security and money saving to let them focus on a plan to set up their own MRO.
DeleteOn which Lufthansa Technik MRO locations the aircrafts will be maintained?
ReplyDeleteComponents -no aircraft. And also no engines (serviced separately).
DeleteComponents include all serviceable components in an aircraft - from pilot seats, toilets, wheels and breaks to flight computers.
Lufthansa Technik is among the world's largest component pool providers, thus giving JU relatively quick access even to components they will not have in their BEG stock (which will be provided by LHT). Also their main warehouse in Germany is very close by making it easier to bring in missing components in case of AOG.
Usually component services and component pooling are paid for by the flight hour per aircraft (depending on which components are included per each and every aircraft included in the contract).
The component provider is then responsible for replacement and servicing of any removed component covered within the agreement. With this business model (which I presume is applied here) the component provider carries the financial risks for any repairs, overhaul or modification and thus makes the cost per flight hour very easy to calculate for the operator. Certain component repairs are quickly in the six figures (e.g. IDG).
The bigger the homebase stock (the more part numbers should be on stock at any given time in BEG), the bigger the cost per flight hour. Also the operator has to weigh AOG risks vs. cost per flight hour.
More information about the model can be found here: https://www.lufthansa-technik.com/en/aircraft-components
It is so sad that we don't have know-how, people and companies in aviation any more. And it's just going to get worse. The chance is high there will be some Serbian people working in Lufthansa Technik but they just couldn't make it in their homeland, didn't they? Don't see bright future for the society with this strategy.
ReplyDeleteSo basically your argument is "you took Lufthansa, and you have your own people in your own country"? You do know that you need a pool provider as an airline? Do you know any Serbian company having a stock of A320 spare parts in Serbia? I do not.
DeleteAnd what not? Why not can Air Serbia 'teknik' be MRO for all airlines in Balkan? All Balkan region closer to BEG then is Germany.
DeleteBecause they don't have replacement parts. Why is this so hard is to understand?
DeleteThis blog should incorporate a series of posts on the basics of airline operation - ideally in cooperation with the region's airlines. Employer branding for them - knowledge for the readers (and commenters).
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Deletetheres a joke somehwere in there, of your comment. Would many people who are responsible at OU, JU, 40 or FB evem know how exactly the basics of airline operations?
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DeleteArrogant comment of the day award. Congrats.
Who was JU's provider till yesterday?
DeleteI'm sure you know.
DeleteSo they follow Croatia Airlines.
ReplyDeleteDo you understand what a component provide is?
DeleteVery unfortunate news indeed. JAT Tehnika definitely lost a potential good company and JU chose the Germans. However, something strange is going on with JAT Tehnika. Their website is not being updated and according to social media a number of their employees are openly exposing the status of "open to work", which means they are eventually willing to leave the company. I think JU did careful research and would have picked them instead of Lufthansa Technik. Also, according to the Google tracker, the JAT Tehnika website is registered somewhere in Russia. There is no doubt that JU approached them somehow but something didn't work out. Just a personal opinion after some checks. Could be totally irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteYou are funny. This is about aircraft PARTS. LH has large stock of parts, what used to be Jat Tehnika does not. Such a comedian.
DeleteGreat news for the Germans. Bad news for Tehnika.
ReplyDeleteSo if Lufthansa Technik will be the main provider of parts/components where JU will do the heavy checks?
ReplyDeleteAnywhere else - component removals are either driven by: Cycles, time on-wing, defect (or diagnosed defect at least) or modification.
DeleteComponent maintenance has zero relation to airframe maintenance!