AIME/MRO: Aerostar wins new Turkish and Spanish customers

Building on its success in winning business from Turkish airlines, Aerostar has secured its sixth MRO customer from that country with the news that Freebird Airlines has contracted to have one of its seven Airbus A320/321s inspected at Aerostar’s Bacau facility.

The aircraft (TC-FBR, an Airbus A320-232, msn 2524, manufactured in 2005) was ferried into Bacau on January 7 for a ‘C’ Check and additional works.

The second new customer for Aerostar is Swiftair, the major Spanish cargo and passenger airline which has contracted to have one of its six Boeing 737-300 freighters inspected at Bacau.

Announcing these two new contracts at MRO Middle East today, Mr Ovidiu Buhai, director aviation MRO for Aerostar said: “ Aerostar is building up a growing market reputation for its cost-effective, quality MRO offering and is becoming an ideal centre for heavy maintenance and conversion work. Our geographical location means we are ideally placed to capture MRO business from customers in the Middle East and Africa from both Eastern and Western Europe and western Asia”.

In addition to winning new MRO customers, Aerostar is also winning repeat business as it announced today that further Boeing 737s from Royal Air Maroc and Pegasus Airlines of Turkey are scheduled to arrive at Aerostar’s Bacau facility in north-eastern Romania for heavy maintenance visits.

Today, a Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-800 passenger airliner is arriving at Bacau for a ‘D01’ check. Since Royal Air Maroc selected Aerostar as an option for MRO work on its Boeing 737 fleet in 2010, the Romanian company has carried out work on 15 aircraft in total.

Co-operation with leading low-cost privately-owned Turkish airline Pegasus which began in 2007 will grow in 2013. In the first quarter of this year three Boeing 737s (one Boeing 737-400 and two Boeing 737-800s) from Pegasus will arrive in Bacau for ‘C’ checks.

Ovidiu Buhai, Director Aviation MRO for Aerostar said today: “Whilst it is important that we win business from new customers, it is also vital that we do our best to retain the valued customers that we have secured in previous years. We are pleased with the co-operation that we have enjoyed with these customers and will work hard to continue to provide a competitive and quality service for them