Lufthansa Technical Training is to start maintenance type-rating courses for the Airbus A380 and next year plans to launch courses for the Boeing 747-8, but it has yet to decide on a timeframe for Boeing 787 training courses.
Managing director of Lufthansa Technical Training, Christoph Meyerrose, says type-rating courses for the A380 will start in October in Frankfurt, where Lufthansa Technik has an A380 maintenance hangar.
Meyerrose says Lufthansa Technical Training has already spent a large amount of money training six of its instructors so they will be ready to conduct the A380 type-rating courses.
Lufthansa Technical Training has also had instructors undergo theoretical training in preparation for the 787 but it is unclear when it will start 787 courses because “there is no concrete answer” from Boeing on the aircraft delivery schedule for the 787 programme, he says.
Boeing is also developing the 747-8 and Lufthansa has ordered 15 of these with first deliveries scheduled for the summer of 2009.
Meyerrose says: “We will definitely be able to provide training for our colleagues at Lufthansa next year” for 747-8s.
It is important for Lufthansa Technical Training to provide maintenance training courses for the A380, 787 and 747-8 because the firm wants to be up with the latest technologies, he adds.
Meyerrose was speaking to ATI in Singapore today to mark the opening of the Lufthansa Technical Training Singapore Centre at Singapore’s Temasek Polytechnic.
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