Industry Addendum
Asiana Airlines and Lufthansa Technik signs ten year maintenance deal
May 1st 2018
Lufthansa Technik has signed a 10-year total Component Maintenance (TCM) program with Asiana Airlines that covers the nine aircraft of the type in the South Korean carrier’s fleet. Read More »
Asiana Airlines executive vice president corporate support, E-Bae Kim, said: ‘we are convinced of Lufthansa Technik’s customer-aimed support that already has proved its value during our long-term partnership.
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Lufthansa Technik vice president corporate sales Asia-Pacific, Gerald Steinhoff, said: “this new agreement further strengthens the longstanding, trustful cooperation between Asiana Airlines and us.”
The German headquartered MRO and South Korea’s second international carrier have been working together for 25 years. Lufthansa Technik also provides integrated component support for the airline’s A320s, A330s and A350s, heavy maintenance support for Asiana’s A380s and V2500 and CF56 engine support.
Asiana Airlines operates to 62 passenger flights to 21 countries and 24 cargo routes to 25 regional and international destinations.
Separately, Lufthansa Technik will participate in a pilot program with Artificial Intelligence company, Arago, and aviation digital software platform, AVIATAR, that aims to progressively automate the airline MRO industry. The trial will be carried out at the base maintenance division of Lufthansa Technik with the application of Arago’s Artificial Intelligence platform, HIRO TM.
The end goal is to use algorithms to formulate automated MRO planning that is expected to cut costs and time in the hangar for aircraft.
Arago founder and CEO, Chris Boos, said “we are pleased to be taking a fundamental step, together with AVIATAR, to digitalise Lufthansa Technik’s aircraft overhaul processes in such a groundbreaking way”.
Arago, partially backed by global private equity company, KKR, is based in Hamburg and supported by offices in the U.S., Exeter and Bangalore.
AVIATAR is an integrated software platform that offers digital products and services to the aviation industry.
Also at Lufthansa Technik, the company will establish a division dedicated to building radomes for all sectors of the airline industry.
Radomes are a critical element in aircraft connectivity installations. In addition to integrating such connectivity into aircraft, Lufthansa Technik will pursue opportunities in the hardware market.
