Lufthansa Technik has contracted additional engine shop visits from Russian
carrier Rossiya Airlines. Until mid-2022, the company will overhaul four
CFM56-5B engines at its engine shop in Hamburg, Germany.
“Lufthansa Technik’s offer for the supply of life-limited parts as well as
its recommendations for work scope planning and extensive warranty
conditions convinced us to entrust our German partner with the overhaul of
our CFM56-5B-engines,” said Sergey Starikov, the official representative of
Rossiya Airlines.
“We’re happy to continue our partnership with Rossiya Airlines with this new
maintenance contract for its CFM56-5B engines. The tender process by Rossiya
Airlines was highly competitive and challenging, and we’re delighted to have
met the high standards of our customer in this process,” said Stanislav
Mitin, Key Account Manager for Russia and CIS at Lufthansa Technik.
Lufthansa Technik has been providing engine services to Rossiya Airlines
since 2019, originally for the CF6-80 engine. Meanwhile, four engines of
this type have been overhauled.
Rossiya Airlines is part of Aeroflot Group. It is the largest operator of
the domestic-made aircraft Superjet 100 and the wide-body passenger jet
Boeing 747-400. In addition, Rossiya Airlines operates foreign-made
airliners of the Airbus A320, Boeing 737, and Boeing 777 series. Rossiya
Airlines participate in the Safe Travel international tourism security
program and was awarded the mark “Safe Travels SPB”. The airline is the
leader among Russian air carriers in terms of flight safety according to the
German research centre JACDEC, received the highest safety rating among the
world’s airlines according to the international rating agency Airline
Ratings, and took a leading position among domestic carriers in the
international Safe Travel Score.
