Bahrain Airshow: Gulf Air and JorAMCo sign MRO agreement

Above: Gulf Air acting CEO Maher AlMusallam (right) with Husam Zayed, vice president Commercial, JorAMCo.

JorAMCo, a regional MRO facility based in Jordan was awarded the contract by Gulf Air following a successful bidding tender process through the Bahrain Tender Board.

Gulf Air’s acting CEO, Mr. Maher Salman Al Musallam, welcoming the agreement with JorAMCo at a signing ceremony held today at the 2014 Bahrain International Airshow in Sakhir Airbase commented: “Gulf Air is committed to achieving technical excellence in aircraft maintenance. JorAMCo’s vast experience and high quality technical expertise in the areas of Airframe Maintenance is the primary reason we selected the company as Gulf Air’s Heavy Maintenance and ‘C’ check MRO provider. Secondly, their close proximity to Bahrain has the added benefit that our aircraft will no longer have to leave the region for maintenance, thereby improving efficiency, decreasing turnaround time, reducing ferry charges and ultimately lowering Gulf Air’s operational costs while maintaining the highest quality of safety standards.”

Mr. Osama Fattaleh CEO of JorAMCo, said, "We are delighted that Gulf Air, a regional aviation pioneer, has selected JorAMCo as its Heavy Maintenance and ‘C’ check MRO provider for its wide and narrow-body Airbus fleet. With over 50-years’ experience in servicing a wide range of aircraft, including Airbus, Gulf Air is assured of high quality value solutions, superior maintenance services and on-time delivery.”

JorAMCo will provide Bahrain’s national carrier with Heavy Maintenance and ‘C’ checks including C1, C2, C3 and C4 checks for its fleet of 26 aircrafts - A330s, A320-ERs, A320s and A321s. All maintenance will be performed in its facilities at Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan. Gulf Air performs its own aircraft maintenance, up to and including A-checks, utilising all the engineering resources available locally in Bahrain. The airline also fully manages its Continued Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) functions which include engineering support services, aircraft systems and propulsion engineering, technical planning, airworthiness review and maintenance of fleet technical records.

Gulf Air’s acting chief technical officer, Mr. Jamal Hashim, said: “Gulf Air’s entire engineering requirement is now based in Bahrain and the Middle East, yielding innumerable benefits for the airline, which directly improve efficiency and passenger experience. Greater aircraft technical dispatch reliability and higher aircraft availability allow us to operate more frequencies and improve our on-time performance; for which we are already a global leader.”

JorAMCo, a Jordanian based Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility, specialises in aircraft airframe services, components repair and overhaul for Airbus, Embraer and Boeing products. The EASA and FAA-approved MRO provides several regional and international operators with high quality services and programmes that include: heavy-base maintenance, technical support, shop and engineering.