VD Gulf, Volga-Dnepr Group’s MRO business unit based in Sharjah, UAE, has won an international tender to provide aircraft maintenance services for Rossiya Airlines, one of the largest airlines in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Rossiya Airlines has already witnessed VD Gulf’s MRO competence and experience in 2017 after it carried out maintenance on the airline’s Boeing family aircraft. In 2018, VD Gulf will carry out a further seven heavy checks on Rossiya’s Boeing 747-400s.

Mikhail Khoroshayev, VD Gulf’s General Director, commented: “This significant contract signed between VD Gulf and Rossiya Airlines, the largest operator of Вoeing 747s in Russia, reflects our high level of competence in relation to this aircraft family. We are actively working on the development of our relationships with customers and the extension of our customer base. Among our other recent achievements, we have entered into an agreement with Corendon Airlines, a Turkish operator, for Boeing 737NGs maintenance and Airblue of Pakistan to provide maintenance for its Airbus А320 aircraft. On behalf of VD Gulf I would like to thank our partners for their trust in our capabilities.”