sion strengthens the partnership
LHT hits 75
with Lufthansa Group” said
Giuseppe Bonomi.
“After Lufthansa Italia and
Lufthansa Cargo, now, thanks to
Lufthansa Technik, Milan Malpensa
Airporty can rely on a great com-
pany, worldwide appreciated for
its experience. All airlines oper-
ating in Malpensa will have the
opportunity to choose Lufthansa
Technik Milan for the maintenance
of their aircraft.”
“Our experience in the area of
August Wilhelm Henningsen, CEO
Lufthansa Technik with A319 tail
aircraft maintenance and the very behind
good infrastructure at Malpensa
Airport offer an excellent business environment for the new
center to serve Lufthansa Italia and other customers in the daily
business,” said August Wilhelm Henningsen, Chairman of the
Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik, at the ceremony. “We
strongly believe in the economic success of Lufthansa Technik
Milan Malpensa. Our planned investments are a clear sign of
From left: Holger Dietsch, Head of Line Maintenance Lufthansa Technik; Heike Birlenbach,
CEO Lufthansa Italia; Raffaele Cattaneo, Assessor for Transport and Infrastructure Region
our serious and long-term commitment at the Milan Malpensa
Lombardia; August Wilhelm Henningsen, CEO Lufthansa Technik; Giuseppe Bonomi, Presi-
Airport.”
AM
dent CEO SEA Aeroporti di Milano; Joachim Drenckhan, CEO Lufthansa Technik Milan.
Also generous Alitalia redundancy packages may be com- About the author
pounding the problem as some qualified local engineers, Mark Wagner is a highly experienced aviation journalist/
who had worked for Alitalia, may now have several years of photographer and a member of the UK’s Royal Aeronautical
earnings related pay without further work. But the plan is Society (MRAeS). He’s a winner of Aviation Week & Space
not to offer heavy maintenance services as the LHT Group Technology’s Photo Contest - General Aviation category.
already offers this elsewhere at 32 bases worldwide. All photos by the author.
First customer
The first 3rd party customer for LTMIL is Livingston Energy
Flight, with a Malpensa-based fleet of three Airbus A321s
and three A330-200s and which had been a logistics cus-
tomer previously, but was flying the aircraft to Frankfurt for
A-checks. By now it is expected that Lufthansa Italia will have
announced long-haul destinations from Milan, using Airbus
A330/A340 widebodies. Overall LTMIL is hoping to gain cus-
tomer contracts for between 40 and 50 jetliners, at a narrow-
body to wide-body ratio of 2:1, from maybe half a dozen
Malpensa-based operators.
With the on-site spares inventory, LRUs, consumables and
expendables in the temperature and humidity-controlled
warehouse are immediately available. Malpensa operators
can have LTMIL and Lufthansa Technik Group handle their
entire maintenance regime through what the company calls
Technical Operations Management (TOM) and even a Total
Material Operations (TMO) service.
At the opening ceremony in the hangar, speeches were
made by August Wilhelm Henningsen, Chairman of Lufthansa
Technik and Giuseppe Bonomi, SEA Milan Airports Chairman
on stage and a Lufthansa Italia Airbus A319 was towed into
the hangar quickly before heading off for another flight
sector.“We are very grateful to Lufthansa Technik Milan for
opening a new maintenance centre in Malpensa. This deci-
Lufthansa Italia Airbus A319
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