Brussels Airlines selects Lufthansa Technik Malta for Airbus A330 base maintenance

Brussels Airlines, the leading Belgian airline, and Lufthansa Technik
Malta have signed a base maintenance contract for the Airbus A330
fleet of the carrier. Lufthansa Technik Malta will provide C-Checks
for the five A330s of Brussels Airlines starting from now on.
Additionally Lufthansa Technik Malta has been selected to do a full
cabin retrofit of the aircraft starting in February 2012.

“This is the first time we will work together with Lufthansa Technik
for the base maintenance of our long haul fleet. We are happy to
contract this work to Lufthansa Technik Malta. They have a huge
expertise and a high quality standard in both areas, C-checks and
cabin refurbishment. This gives us the guarantee to achieve the
result which we expect in this very important project for our
airline”, said Koen Vanaenroyde, VP Maintenance & Engineering of
Brussels Airlines.

Stephan Drewes, CEO of Lufthansa Technik Malta, added: “To win a
leading carrier like Brussels Airlines for our wide-body maintenance
services is a great success for us. It is a proof for the large
expertise we have been able to build up in the past three years since
we opened the first wide-body line. We have been very successful with
the refurbishment program ‘New Europe Cabin’ of Lufthansa in the past
months and I am absolutely sure that we will deliver the same quality
to Brussels Airlines.”

The cabin refurbishment program for Brussels Airlines includes the
installation of a completely new cabin with a state-of-the-art
in-flight entertainment system in all classes.

The two companies are currently in negotiations about further
maintenance services for Airbus A319/A320.

Brussels Airlines operates its fleet of Airbus A330-300 aircraft on
its Africa network. The airline serves 19 African destinations with
its A330-300 fleet.