Aeroflot becomes customer for Finnair Technical Services

Finnair Technical Services and Russian airline Aeroflot have signed a maintenance agreement for the technical support of DC10-40F cargo aircraft. The agreement covers maintenance planning and equipment support, overhauls and line maintenance support for four cargo aircraft at their home base of Frankfurt-Hahn airport in Germany, where Finnair Technical Services has staff.

The maintenance services begin June 15, 2004 with Finnair Technical Services' taking over line maintenance responsibilities. In mid-July, the first DC10 aircraft arrives in Helsinki for its month-long overhaul. The maintenance agreement is signed for three years and its value is at least 15 million euro. The agreement makes Aeroflot the second largest customer of Finnair Technical Services from outside Finnair Group. The largest outside customer is Lufthansa Cargo.

Finnair Technical Services has trained 60 Aeroflot's Airbus A320 aircraft technical staff since last summer.