- Seven-year contract regarding the supply of spare parts for A330ceo
and A321neo fleets
- Contract gives the airline the flexible option to extend the
cooperation by several years
Lufthansa Technik and Hawaiian Airlines have signed a comprehensive
Total Component Support (TCS) contract covering the Honolulu-based
airline's entire Airbus A330ceo and A321neo fleets. In total, the new
agreement encompasses parts pooling support for up to 52 aircraft
over the next seven years. It moreover gives Hawaiian Airlines the
flexible option to further extend the cooperation by several
additional years.
The new agreement is Hawaiian Airlines' first Lufthansa Technik TCS
contract. It covers a total of 18 Airbus A321neo and 24 Airbus
A330ceo aircraft in passenger configuration. The contract also covers
ten converted Airbus A330-300 Passenger-to-Freighter aircraft which
Hawaiian Airlines will operate on behalf of e-commerce giant Amazon
and its Amazon Air division.
For each aircraft, Lufthansa Technik will perform component
maintenance, provide access to the company's component pool and
logistics services, and establish home base stocks at several
Hawaiian Airlines maintenance bases including Honolulu's Daniel K.
Inouye International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
"When we set out to find a maintenance provider for components
installed on our Airbus fleet, we looked for an established MRO
organization that shared our focus to safely deliver reliable
aircraft and components to the operation on-time and at a competitive
price," said Jim Landers, Hawaiian Airlines' Senior Vice President of
Technical Operations: "We believe we found that partner with
Lufthansa Technik, and we look forward to their support of our Airbus
fleet in the years to come."
"We are thrilled to enhance our existing partnership with Hawaiian
Airlines with this component support that will foster our
long-lasting relationship. Through improved material supply and
logistics, our Total Component Support guarantees optimal
availability for Hawaiian Airlines' passenger and growing freighter
Airbus fleets," said Georgios Ouzounidis, Vice President Corporate
Sales Americas at Lufthansa Technik.
With this TCS agreement, Hawaiian Airlines now benefits from an
individual supply concept that enables short and rapid transport
paths. The airline also selected Lufthansa Technik for its Aircraft
Production Inspection Program (APIP) services, which includes the ten
aforementioned A330 passenger-to-freighter conversions. The newly
signed agreement further extends Lufthansa Technik's growth in
providing MRO services for Airbus aircraft in the United States.