Save on maintenance

Upon receipt by the airline of the CIS foreign aircraft to carriers faced with the problem of reducing so painful after the devaluation of the ruble in foreign currency expenditure on their maintenance. To refuse the services of foreign companies, according to “Aeroflot”, allows you to save on each of the available most popular types of aircraft (the airline operates 12 “Airbus A310” and 10 “Boeing 737-400”) 1.5 to $ 2 million. a year.

In August 1997, the Russian national carrier received from the joint aviation authorities of Europe certificate JAR-145 on an independent right of maintenance of aircraft A310. Now the French government has issued Aviation technology center (ATC), airlines addition to this certificate for operational and technical services, including in-depth form C-check on aircraft “Boeing 737” and the CFM56. Earlier work was performed by company “Lufthansa Technik”.

According to the Director of the centre Yury Evdokimov, currently, with the support of this German company, formed a stock of spare parts and equipment necessary for the operation of “Boeing 737”. Other types of aircraft of foreign manufacture are supplied with spare parts through the company’s support (for “Boeing 767” is an American “Delta”, and for the DC-10 – air France).

But “Aeroflot” in his desire to save not alone.

In December 1997, “Transaero” has received the certificate of maintenance available to it at the time of aircraft DC-10, and in 1998 – “Boeing 737”.

Uzbek national carrier “Uzbekistan Airways” certified your aircraft repair plant to perform work on aircraft A310, and most recently, medium-RJ85. Support in the development of a new type of works of Uzbek specialists had colleagues from the Swiss airline “Crossair” (Crossair). Soon the plant will perform work on the form of C-check at the first of the existing airline “Boeing 767-300ER”.