Etihad Airways has opened a line maintenance
base at Singapore’s Changi International Airport, the carrier’s
eighth outside Abu Dhabi.
The new facility will perform all scheduled and
non-scheduled line maintenance for Etihad Airways’ daily flights
operating to Singapore from both Abu Dhabi and Brisbane.
This includes transit, daily and weekly checks,
scheduled engineering services, and fault repairs for aircraft
systems and cabin issues.
From its UAE hub, Etihad Airways operates daily
return flights to Singapore and onwards to state capital of
Queensland, Australia.
“Singapore is a key
part of Etihad Airways’ expanding global network and our decision
to establish an engineering facility at Changi reflects our
continuing investment in operations there and in the wider
region,” said Captain Richard Hill, Chief Operations Officer at
Etihad Airways. “The opening also enhances Etihad Airways’
position as a world-class Technical Handling Company. With
existing state-of-the-art maintenance facilities at Melbourne and
Sydney in Australia where we also service other carriers, our
Changi maintenance base will further strengthen the scale of our
global operations.”
Etihad Airways is deploying a
team of Abu Dhabi-trained line maintenance aircraft engineers to
be based at the new Singapore facility.
The
airline’s existing line maintenance facilities are in Dublin,
Chicago, Lahore, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Melbourne and
Sydney.
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