LHT hits 75
LHT continues to grow
around the world with it’s
new base called LTMIL in
northern Italy’s Milan
By Mark Wagner MraeS
L
ufthansa Technik Milan (LTMIL), a same site. “Due to our help, Lufthansa by Fed Ex as a package-sorting depot
fully owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Italia has achieved a 99.5% dispatch and a third runway is also planned, so
Technik (LHT) was officially opened reliability score with seven Milan based possibilities for future hangar expansion
for business on 15 October 2009 as Airbus A319s,” he told AVM. will be very constrained or impossible,
the 75th worldwide LHT Group line- Services currently offered are all giving LTMIL a maintenance monopoly
maintenance center – and Aviation up to A-check level for the A320 fam- on the airport Another limitation on
Maintenance (AVM) was there. Headed ily, A330/A340 family and Boeing 737 maintenance capacity is the EASA rule
by CEO Joachim Drenckham, LTMIL Classics from single maintenance events that the weather should be appropriate
moved into 6,400 square meters of to full support programs. “During 2010 for outdoor maintenance – that means
existing hangar complex space vacated we will add Boeing 777 A-check capa- that no A-checks are allowed on the
by Alitalia last summer; they are the bility too” Dr Alexander Feuer-Saenger, ramp at Malpensa between October
only maintenance hangars at Malpensa LTMIL Director of Aircraft Maintenance, and March.
Airport. Lufthansa Technik will invest told AVM adding that “ we are already One initial challenge for LTMIL is
about eight million Euros over the next doing daily and weekly checks on to expand the workforce. By the end
five years in the facility. Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 freighters here. of 2009 there will be 45 employees,
“We have positioned LTMIL to be The tooling commonality between the up from 30 earlier in the year, but the
a strategic partner for operators at Airbus types led us to concentrate on plan is to have 160 by 2014. The need
Malpensa and provide a full range them first.” for qualified EASA B1 airframe and B2
of line-maintenance services; it is not The hangar was formally taken over electrical engineers make hiring the
just because Lufthansa Italia has set on 15 July 2009 but needed some right staff quite a challenge, especially
up here but offered to all operators,” repairs to the doors and air condition- as line-maintenance requires more
Drenckham tells AVM in an exclusive ing systems. It takes either four narrow- highly-qualified engineers than for a
interview. He has been boss of the body, or one wide-body and two company offering heavy base-checks
Lufthansa Technik Component Services narrow-body airliners simultaneously. where EASA B1/2 engineers can sign
Milan logistics center since 2007 on the The east wing of the complex is used off work of lower qualified employees.
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avmain-mag.com | December 2009/January 2010
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