EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering has signed a contract to set up a new station at Dubai International Airport to provide daily maintenance services to airlines operating to and from the airport, in partnership with the Emirati company SKAN Aviation.
The signing was witnessed by Captain Ahmed Adel, Chairman of EgyptAir Holding Company, and was carried out by Eng. Mostafa Aly El-Din Imam, Chairman of EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering, and Ashraf Nasser, CEO of SKAN Aviation, on behalf of Ibrahim Abdel Malek, the company's chairman, in the presence of Eng. Mohamed Samy, Managing Director and official in charge of local and international approvals.
In this context, Captain Ahmed Adel said the new station represents an important step towards expansion outside the African continent, especially at Dubai Airport, one of the largest airports in the Middle East, which sees high operating density, meaning greater competition, expressing his confidence in EgyptAir Maintenance's ability to compete at various international levels and expand globally in line with future plans.
For his part, Eng. Mostafa Aly El-Din Imam stated that under the contract, EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering will provide trained and certified technical crews and the tools and equipment needed to provide the technical service, while the Emirati company SKAN Aviation will provide the station's premises and the necessary financing, adding that this step aims to attract a number of new customers and expand the scope of the service provided to some existing customers.
He explained that the contract with the Emirati company includes two phases: the first is providing daily maintenance services, and the second is providing heavy and periodic maintenance services through a contract to build an aircraft "hangar" at Dubai or Sharjah airport in the coming period, which would mean a qualitative leap in providing technical service and in the targeted regional expansion.
In the same context, the station's premises were inspected and the necessary designs completed, after which it was equipped with the tools and equipment used for aircraft maintenance, and the station was then approved by the company's General Department of Quality to ensure the suitability of the premises, tools and equipment used. The final step before providing technical service to customers is the approval of the station by the various local and international civil aviation authorities.
He revealed that the station is expected to start providing technical services to EgyptAir aircraft and customers within 3 months for Airbus A330 and A320 and Boeing B737-800, B777 and B787 aircraft.
On the other hand, Ashraf Nasser, CEO of SKAN Aviation, praised the new contract with EgyptAir Maintenance, one of the largest providers of aircraft maintenance and overhaul services in the Middle East and Africa, which attracts customers thanks to its various international approvals, strong reputation, technical performance and the distinguished capabilities of its technical crews, expressing his desire to expand the scope of cooperation in the future as planned and to provide periodic maintenance services.
He stressed that the new project will quickly bear fruit due to the high level of operations at Dubai Airport, which encourages increased investment in the near future, pointing to the possibility of expanding soon by opening another branch of the company at Abu Dhabi International Airport, and noting that this project will enable EgyptAir Maintenance to provide job opportunities for its technical crews abroad and increase its sources of foreign currency income.
