Well, there you are, exactly what it says on the tin - we're launching an MRO blog for the aviation industry. And this is it.I've spent a fair chunk of the last few weeks putting together a special MRO report for Flight International to coincide with the excellent MRO Europe event run by our competitors at Aviation Week. This year that's in Hamburg starting 22 September of course. Drop me a line if you'd like to talk to us. kieran.daly@flightglobal.com
The biggest trend we looked at was the way in which
MRO activity is migrating to the European periphery as the legacy
players find it tougher and tougher to compete on costs. Of course
Lufthansa Technik started that years ago with its operations in Sofia,
Budapest and Malta. But now you've got AFI/KLM setting up shop in
Casablanca, FL Technics coming from nowhere but with big aspirations at
its base in Vilnius, Lithuania, and SR Technics in the last stages of
deciding where to set up shop in a lower cost locality.
Jonas Butautis, the CEO of FL Technics, actually made the point that although he expected to have a cost advantage over the mainstream MROs for anything up to a decade, he was much more worried about competing with people in Turkey. 'Low-cost' being an entirely relative concept of course. And sure enough, MRO in Turkey is exploding as well, as our correspondent Tolga Ozbek details here.
On the other hand, no sooner had SR Technics moved out of Dublin, than the energetic Conor McCarthy moved in, confident that he can tackle the cost issues that SRT couldn't find a way around. Branded as Dublin Aerospace, the new operation is reasonably well funded, is shamelessly cherry-picking high-value activities, and is hiring.
As usual I couldn't use all the pix I obtained so here are some of them because, well, because it's always interesting to have a look in someone else's hangar.
Lufthansa Technik Sofia. Pic: LHT
Hope the heating works. (Obviously the heating works - it's Lufthansa Technik!)
Jonas Butautis, the CEO of FL Technics, actually made the point that although he expected to have a cost advantage over the mainstream MROs for anything up to a decade, he was much more worried about competing with people in Turkey. 'Low-cost' being an entirely relative concept of course. And sure enough, MRO in Turkey is exploding as well, as our correspondent Tolga Ozbek details here.
On the other hand, no sooner had SR Technics moved out of Dublin, than the energetic Conor McCarthy moved in, confident that he can tackle the cost issues that SRT couldn't find a way around. Branded as Dublin Aerospace, the new operation is reasonably well funded, is shamelessly cherry-picking high-value activities, and is hiring.
As usual I couldn't use all the pix I obtained so here are some of them because, well, because it's always interesting to have a look in someone else's hangar.
Turkish Technic hangar, Istanbul. Pic: Tolga Ozbek
FL Technics hangar, Vilnius. Pic: FL Technics
FL Technics hangar, Vilnius. Pic: FL Technics
Lufthansa Technik Budapest. Pic: LHT
Lufthansa Technik Sofia. Pic: LHT
Hope the heating works. (Obviously the heating works - it's Lufthansa Technik!)
on September 23, 2009 11:30 PM | Reply
That is a great Idea, weldone, looking forward to read your text
Jean