Malaysia's MAE wins 3-year maintenance contract from SpiceJet

Malaysian Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Sdn Bhd, a unit of Malaysia Airlines, has secured a three-year maintenance support contract from SpiceJet for the latter's new generation Boeing 737 series aircraft.

Malaysia's Bernama news agency quoting MAE managing director Mohd Roslan Ismail said the first of SpiceJets' B737 jet has arrived at MAE's Subang hangar and would go through a series of checks.

With the addition of SpiceJet to its MRO kitty, MAE said it has also secured the first airline customer for the MAS-GMR Hyderabad Engineering Company Ltd.

MAE set up the airframe MRO in joint venture with GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd on a 50:50 basis last year.

The Hyderabad facility will provide base maintenance services, starting with 'C' checks for narrow bodied aircraft like Airbus A 320 and Boeing 737, the B-737 Classic and B-737 next generation aircraft. It will have a capacity to service between 60 and 80 aircraft annually, the report said.

In the 'C' checks the entire aircraft goes through a series of checks, inspections and overhaul.