Lufthansa Technik extends engine services collaboration with Rossiya Airlines


Four CFM56-5B engines to be serviced at Lufthansa Technik’s engine
shop in Hamburg
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, 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 participates 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 center
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.

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