While only about 15 percent of total revenues go to heavy aircraft maintenance, which is what JOB AIR Technic's aircraft repair shops specialize in, engine maintenance accounts for almost half of the total. Now, for the first time, the Repairs MRO at Ostrava Airport managed to break into the lucrative engine repair segment.
The Civil Aviation Authority has issued JOB AIR Technic a permit to perform line maintenance on CFM's LEAP-1A engines, which are used on Airbus A320 Family. The company is now assessing the next steps and authorizations so that it can cover its customers' new-generation engine repair needs.
"Engine maintenance is seen by our company as a key area for its further development. We have completed the first step, but only now the hard work begins for us - we not only want to continue expanding our services within the existing authorization, but we are also planning the next steps necessary to extend it to the scope of heavy maintenance," says Mateusz Ojciec, Chief Business Development Officer at JOB AIR Technic.
Engine line maintenance can be performed simultaneously with other tasks in which JOB AIR Technic has long specialized, as well as offered separately. Either way, the acquisition of the line maintenance license can be seen as a major shift in the competence of aircraft repair services, their reputation and, above all, as an opportunity to penetrate further into the extremely complex, but at the same time lucrative, segment of aircraft maintenance.
