30 May, 2018

Spairliners continues Integrated Component Care services for 15 Embraer E-Jets

Hamburg – Spairliners GmbH and Kenya Airways have extended its existing Integrated Component Care contract covering full component support for 15 E-Jet aircraft of the leading African airline. With this further long-term prolongation effective by April 2018, the contracted services have been enhanced by an on-site customer representative based in Nairobi and a Line Maintenance Training for Kenya Airways’ aircraft mechanics.

Kenya Airways’ E-Jet fleet will be supplied from Spairliners’ component pool and logistic centers located in Paris and Munich. Additionally, an optimized on-site stock will be provided at Kenya Airways premises for their proprietary use.

“With this contract extension our cooperation with Spairliners will be further strengthened. The innovative approach of Spairliners enables Kenya Airways to optimize its cost position and further increase its aircraft availability. Spairliners proved to be a reliable and high-quality provider and we are pleased with the contract prolongation”, says Ron Lussier, Head of Material Management at Kenya Airways.

“We are delighted that Kenya Airways selected Spairliners again as their preferred E-Jet Component supplier, after we have been building an excellent business partnership for years. This contract prolongation shows the competitiveness of Spairliners via its customized and cost-efficient service offering”, says Cornelius Dalm, Head of Sales, Account Management and Marketing. Benoit Crombois, Managing Director and CFO at Spairliners adds “With this continued cooperation Kenya Airways can rely not only on Spairliners expertise, but also on the support and in-depth knowledge of our parent companies network of Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Lufthansa Technik”.

From left to right: Ron Lussier (Head of Technical Material Management, Kenya Airways),

Benoit Crombois (CFO, Spairliners), Cornelius Dalm (Head of Sales, Spairliners)

About Kenya Airways

Kenya Airways is a leading African airline flying to 51 destinations worldwide, 43 of which are in Africa and carries over three million passengers annually. It continues to modernize its fleet with its 31 aircraft being some of the youngest in Africa. This includes its flagship B787-8 Dreamliner aircrafts. The on-board service is renowned and the lie-flat business class seat on the wide-body aircraft is consistently voted among the world’s top 10. Kenya Airways takes pride in being at the forefront of connecting Africa to the World and the World to Africa through its hub at the new ultra-modern Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
Kenya Airways celebrated 40 years of operations in January 2017 and was named Africa Leading Airline 2017 by the World Travel Awards.

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18 April, 2018

Jordan’s flag carrier, Royal Jordanian, has signed a component services contract with Spairliners, the leading Integrated Component Care provider for Embraer E-Jet and Airbus A380 aircraft. Effective from March 2018 the contract covers the component supply and repair management of Royal Jordanian Airlines’ E-Jet fleet consisting of three E175 and two E195 aircraft.

Spairliners will supply Royal Jordanian Airlines’ fleet from its component pool and logistic hub in Paris, France, as well as its central spare parts warehouse in Munich, Germany. The contracted services include streamlined supply chain management, pool access, repair management and tailored logistics services for Line Replaceable Units of Royal Jordanian Airlines’ E175 and E195 fleet. “We are delighted to be awarded by Royal Jordanian Airlines. It is an honour for us to support this leading network carrier in the region with our Integrated Component Care services”, says Cornelius Dalm, Head of Sales, Account Management and Marketing at Spairliners. He continues, “This contract is a great step for Spairliners to strengthen its presence in the Middle East. It enables us to further expand our footprint in this region and attract more operators with our cost-efficient services, customized product offerings and extensive in-house repair capabilities.”

Royal Jordanian Airlines’ CEO Stefan Pichler states: “As an airline carrier focusing on process optimization, cost improvement and profitable growth, we are pleased to have selected Spairliners as our partner. Spairliners is ready to offer us their customized product services, attractive cost scheme and their long-term experience in supporting E-Jet aircraft. We are delighted to continue and extend the successful and excellent relationship which we have with Spairliners’ shareholders Air France KLM Engineering and Maintenance and Lufthansa Technik AG since many years.”

About Royal Jordanian Airlines

A leading carrier in the region, Royal Jordanian, which was established in 1963, has the clear vision of being the Airline of Choice that connects Jordan and the Levant with the world.
From its hub at Queen Alia International Airport, RJ operates a fleet of 26 young aircraft to reach 47 direct destinations, providing an extensive travel network for its customers, via Amman, to Europe, the US and Canada, North Africa and the Far East.
Since the 4th quarter of last year, the airline has been executing a five-year turnaround plan that consists of four main pillars, including becoming the No. 1 airline in the Levant, achieving sustainable profitability, being a Customer Champion by delivering a consistent customer experience, and being the Employer of Choice through attracting talented workforce.
Through 12 international airline partners in the oneworld alliance, RJ can offer a network of over 1,000 cities in more than 150 countries.
Also, Royal Jordanian is a leading provider of air cargo services in the Middle East, offering fast, reliable and safe shipping services. RJ’s cargo sector plays an important role in enhancing the national economic development and supporting Jordan’s exports to the world.

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December 22, 2016

In this year’s run-up to Christmas, Spairliners organized an employee auction for obsolete IT devices like Laptops and Smart Phones among its 55 employees and donated to UNICEF. The idea came from the IT department who saw that the discarded devices are still in a good shape for private usage. A large majority of the employees participated in this auction and in response to the popularity of this project, a considerably sum was exceeded.

For over a decade, the project “schools for Africa” has aimed at providing basic school education to children in 13 African countries, including Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Rwanda and South Africa. The UNICEF project has reached over 28 million children that now learn in newly built or renovated classrooms and benefit from adequate teaching material or enhanced teaching quality.

“UNICEF would like to express their gratitude to Spairliners for their great involvement. The donation enables us to successfully continue our work in the “schools for Africa” educational project”, said Michaela Eugen-Albrecht, head of the UNICEF group in Hamburg. “The generous amount will equip more children with required learning material, such as notebooks and pens – essential building blocks to safeguard the children’s primary education.”

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26 September, 2016

Spairliners opened a new warehouse and logistics center for component supply in the Singapore Free Trade Zone, North of Changi Airport, in August 2016. With this new site, as well as those already operating in Paris, Frankfurt and Munich, a key warehouse and logistics facility has been established to serve the needs of customers in the region.

Through an extensive stock of serviceable parts in Asia-Pacific, supported by a local repair network, Spairliners is able to increase the efficiency of its component supply and significantly shorten delivery times for its A380 customers, such as Qantas Airways and Malaysia Airlines. Today, more than 40 percent of customer’s flight hours are accrued in Asia-Pacific.

State-of-the-art facilities, that operate 24/7, allow Spairliners to offer seamlessly integrated solutions for A380 and E-Jet customers. “In order to better fulfil the high quality expectations of our customers, we opened a new warehouse and logistics center in a strategic geographic location. This enables us to deliver to any airports in the region within just a few hours”, says Spairliners CEO Sven-Uve Hüschler. The new location covers a growing spectrum of critical Line Replaceable Units (LRU) for Airbus A380 aircraft and in order to support more customers, is now ready to expand to Embraer E-Jet aircraft.

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19 May, 2019

Qantas Airways Ltd., the Australian flag carrier based in Sydney, has renewed its Integrated Component Care contract with Spairliners who have been providing services since the A380 entry into service in 2008. The contract is effective from 01st of January 2016 and covers component pooling and repair solutions of all Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) for Qantas’ Airbus A380 aircraft fleet. As a result of the new agreement the contract provides an additional transportation service to and from Qantas’ Homebase in Sydney and all line stations.

The contracted services include the scope of about 1,000 part numbers (P/N) in total. Qantas offers A380 passenger transport services with 14 daily flights connecting Sydney and Melbourne to Dubai, London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Dallas. Since operation of Qantas’ first A380 in 2008, the component provider has served the airline for over 350,000 flight hours. “Spairliners is our preferred component provider thanks to the successful partnership and improving high service levels through the time of the existing contract” says Mike Legrand, Procurement Engineering CAM Manager at Qantas Airways.

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22 February, 2016

Austrian Airlines will begin using Spairliners for Integrated Component Care Support effective January 2016. The long-term contract was signed in December 2015 and covers component pooling and repair solutions of seventeen (17) Embraer E195 aircraft. With its latest customer the renowned component care specialist reinforces its leading position in Europe.

Sven-Uve Hueschler, CEO at Spairliners, says: “We will deliver the best services and knowledge to Austrian Airlines based on our comprehensive experiences on the E-Jet. As part of the long-term agreement we established a dedicated IT interface between Austrian Airlines AMOS maintenance IT system and Spairliners’ SAP system in order to handle component requests efficiently and reliably.” With this tailored IT interface all relevant request information can be accessed directly though the AMOS system which is exchanging data with Spairliners’ SAP system automatically.

Today, Spairliners has been supported more than 850,000 flight hours on the E-Jet fleet. The company’s strategy for 2016 is to further expand into the international market and services presence worldwide. In 2013, Spairliners enhanced its services portfolio by introducing and integrating additional Component Services for the E-Jet aircraft type. This was the result of its exceptional success with Integrated Component Care services on the Airbus A380, since the company’s foundation in 2005.

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