Lufthansa Technik being kept busy with Asian completions

Lufthansa Technik is currently very busy with completions on Asian VIP jets.

The company has since early 2012 to February 2013 has delivered eight Airbus Corporate Jets and Boeing Business Jets to Chineses and other Asian customers.

The aircraft were completed in Lufthansa Technik’s completion center in Hamburg/Germany and in Tulsa/Oklahoma, at BizJet International, Lufthansa Technik’s US subsidiary.

Another BBJ will be delivered to the Chinese Nanshan Group in the second quarter of 2013. Further three narrow-body aircraft completions from Asian customers are still in Lufthansa Technik’s orderbook.

“The Asian and especially the Chinese VIP aircraft market are significantly increasing every year. We are very proud that several customers from this region set their trust in our abilities. Thanks to our careful strategy and the precisely controlled build-up of capacities and capabilities we have been able to handle the high workload of the last year without any compromise in quality or adherence to schedules. Our current completion projects give us a very good capacity utilization until end of 2014 and we have some promising talks with potential customers also beyond this date,” said Walter Heerdt, senior vice president Marketing & Sales at Lufthansa Technik.

Heerdt continued “We are also pleased about the business perspective for our VIP-maintenance services which are an essential part of our strategy. Our tailor-made products offer highly individualized technical solutions for our VIP customers over the complete life-cycle of their aircraft.”

In addition to business with VIP customers from Asia, Lufthansa Technik is currently completing one  Boeing 767 and two Boeing 747-8 wide-body aircraft plus one BBJ from Middle East customers in Hamburg.

BizJet International is currently working on two BBJ and an ACJ318 aircraft from Asian customers.