Lufthansa Technik to Provide Component Services for Aeromexico

Aeromexico and Lufthansa Technik have signed a contract regarding component services for a total of 34 aircraft. In the coming ten years the Mexican airline will be provided with Lufthansa Technik´s comprehensive Total Component Support TCS® for its entire fleet of Next Generation Boeing 737-700s and -800s. The first services for Aeromexico have already begun.

Under the Total Component Support TCS® agreement Lufthansa Technik's experts will take care of all aspects of supplying Aeromexico with components for the airline's daily operations, from access to the pool of components, repair and overhaul of the units removed from the aircraft on to engineering and troubleshooting support.

"We are happy to work with Lufthansa Technik in order to improve our component support supply chain, reduce our cost of material ownership and receive a reliable service from a sound partner," said Miguel Uribe, Senior Vice President Supply Chain of Aeromexico.

Aeromexico. Grupo Aeromexico is comprised of four different affiliates: Aeromexico, Mexico's largest transcontinental airline, Aeromexico Connect, charter airline Aeromexico Travel, and EMA, the Group's airline maintenance company. Its fleet includes Boeing 777, 767, 737, and MD80 aircraft, and next generation Embraer 145 and 190 airplanes. The Group operates over 500 daily flights to different destinations in Mexico, the United States, Central and South America, Europe and Asia.

Lufthansa Technik: The Lufthansa Technik Group, with more than 30 subsidiaries and about 26,000 employees worldwide, is one of the leading manufacturer-independent providers of services for the aviation industry. In 2009, the Group's overall revenues stood at 4 billion euros. Lufthansa Technik is licensed internationally as a repair, production and development enterprise. The Group's portfolio encompasses the entire spectrum of services in the areas of maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification and conversion, engines and components.