Ten-year Growing Partnership with Ural Airlines
Ural Airlines and Lufthansa Technik look back on a decade of successful partnership. The anniversary of the long-term collaboration was celebrated with an official event at the Russian
carrier's home base in Ekaterinburg.
Lufthansa Technik has been supporting Ural Airlines with a reliable component supply and other customized technical services since the carrier added the first A320 to its fleet back in 2006. In addition,
Lufthansa Technik partners Ural Airlines as the carrier moves toward its goal of building up and expanding maintenance capabilities both for its own and for customer fleets.
Lufthansa Technik's services in the framework of Total Technical Support TTS® for Ural Airlines currently include component MRO and pool access, services for Airframe Related Components ARC®, as well
as engine, landing gear and APU overhauls as individual events. Lufthansa Technik ensures reliable spare parts logistics, including material supply, for expanding Ural Airlines' operations from its central warehouses in Hamburg and Frankfurt.
The scope of services is regularly adjusted to Ural Airlines' current needs. At the beginning of the cooperation, the airline had nearly all of its technical services provided by partners such as Lufthansa Technik. Gaining more experience with the A320 aircraft family, Ural Airlines began to carry out some of the technical work itself, starting with line maintenance and engineering, and adding aircraft base maintenance in early 2015.
"At the start of our partnership it was crucial for us to gain access to Lufthansa Technik's vast experience in engineering and maintenance of Western aircraft, and to benefit from its well-organized
production, variety of services, and strong quality system," says Igor Poddubniy, Technical Director of Ural Airlines. "With the successful groundwork that we have laid together, we expect our partner to support the growth of Ural Airlines with high-quality and cost-effective maintenance solutions."
"Ten years ago, we became a natural choice for Ural Airlines for ensuring safe and reliable flight operations of their new Airbus fleet," comments Dmitri Zaitsev, Vice President Corporate Sales Eastern Europe & CIS of Lufthansa Technik. "Years later our cooperation remains very close. We have always supported Ural Airlines in its development, because ultimately we see ourselves as a partner of our customers."
Lufthansa Technik currently shares its experience with Ural Airlines on optimizing base maintenance in the airline's new hanger, and provides support for developing back shop capabilities. Customer
support for Ural Airlines is mostly provided by Lufthansa Technik's Russian-speaking staff in Hamburg and Moscow.
About Ural Airlines:
Ural Airlines is one of the largest, rapidly developing Russian airlines. The airline's base airports are first-rate Russian aviation hubs: Moscow Domodedovo and Ekaterinburg. Ural Airlines operates scheduled and charter flights to Russian, CIS, and international destinations with a modern and comfortable fleet of A320 family aircraft. The key priorities of the airline are international qualityand safety standards. In 2012, Ural Airlines obtained its EASA Part 145 approval for line maintenance, which was expanded to base maintenance in 2015.
About Lufthansa Technik:
The Lufthansa Technik Group, with more than 30 subsidiaries and associates and over 25,000 employees worldwide, is one of the leading providers of technical services for the aviation industry. Its
portfolio encompasses the entire spectrum of services for commercial aircraft: maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification and conversion, engines and components.
