Lufthansa Technik: New long-haul tail dock in operation at maintenance base in Munich

Two million Euros investment for optimized maintenance of Airbus
A330, A340 and A350

On 20th June 2018 Lufthansa Technik AG has put a new a tail dock in
operation at its Munich base. The company invested over two million
euros in the new infrastructure. The dock is used for maintenance
work on the aircraft types Airbus A330, A340 and A350.

The dock facilitates maintenance work at the rear of long-haul
aircraft, as it makes the vertical and horizontal stabilizer and the
auxiliary power unit, APU, easier to access. It also allows different
work packages to be carried out simultaneously. The dock is 28.5
meters wide, 21 meters deep and 20.7 meters high. The weight is 125
tons.

"After two years of project phase and three months of construction
time, the tail dock enables more efficient and safe handling of the
work packages and is an investment in the future of long-haul
maintenance operations at the Munich base", says Holger Beck, Senior
Director Aircraft Line Maintenance Munich.

With over 800 employees, Lufthansa Technik services short- and
long-haul aircraft for more than 40 customers at its second-largest
maintenance base within Germany, including more than 100 aircraft of
the Lufthansa Group alone.