Under agreement, Lufthansa Technik will become Collins Aerospace's
A380 main landing gear MRO licensee
Provides A380 operators with an additional source for main landing
gear overhauls and asset management services
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:
UTX), and Lufthansa Technik AG today announced a first-of-its-kind
licensing and asset agreement for Airbus A380 main landing gear
Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services. Under the agreement,
which spans the life of the A380 program, Lufthansa Technik will be
able to provide A380 main landing gear MRO services and access to
assets supporting customer layover schedules.
To help Lufthansa Technik develop MRO capabilities for the A380 main
landing gear, Collins Aerospace will provide training, parts and
proprietary repair procedures, including access to technical
publications required to perform A380 main landing gear MRO services.
Lufthansa Technik will offer asset management services through access
to a collaboratively managed main landing gears pool of Collins
Aerospace.
"This agreement will provide A380 operators with more options for
their main landing gear MRO services from high-quality repair
centers," said Ajay Mahajan, president of Landing Systems at Collins
Aerospace. "Lufthansa Technik and Collins Aerospace have enjoyed a
longstanding, collaborative relationship and we look forward to
continuing to work together to better meet the MRO needs of our
customers moving forward."
Sandra Eckstein, Vice President of Aircraft Systems at Lufthansa
Technik said: "This agreement will enable us to support customers
comprehensively, not only for planned repair events but also in the
case of non-routine work. Our landing gear experts in London will be
ready for A380 services in 2020. Especially for customers in the EMEA
region this capability will save time and costs. And the next step to
further expand our intensive partnership with Collins Aerospace in
this area is already planned as we intend to develop new repair
methods for the A380 landing gear which are OEM approved."
