French company wins Emirates B777 landing gear overhauls

The Normandy-based company said today that the agreement is an all-inclusive “door to door” arrangement and covers the removal and installation, logistics, engineering support, and landing overhaul services for Emirates' 777-300ER aircraft fleet.

Christian Knapp, president of Revima, said: “We had the opportunity a few years ago to provide landing gear overhaul services for Emirates’ A310F fleet. We are today very much honored and proud having been selected on this new program which will represent for our company a significant activity in the years to come.”

Emirates COO, Adel Al Redha, said: “This long term programem is strategic for Emirates owing to its size and the impact on our maintenance operations. One of our key requirements was to find flexible solutions of the highest quality standards and to diversify our supply chain in order to mitigate industrial uncertainties. We also wanted to incentivise our business partners for continuous performance enhancements”.