KLM Engineering & Maintenance (KLM E&M) and Air France Industries (AFI) have been jointly selected to receive the Overhaul & Maintenance European MRO Airline of the Year Award.
AMSTELVEEN – The award has been presented for successfully combining both engineering & maintenance departments to provide enhanced services for parent airlines and external airline customers.
Peter Somers, Executive Vice President KLM Engineering & Maintenance says “Receiving this award proves that the integration of our maintenance activities is the right choice for both companies as well as its combined customer base. It’s the next step in providing superior services and positioning ourselves as a MRO global leader. Our next move, which we introduced earlier this month, is the full integration of our sales and customer support departments. KLM E&M and AFI now are one for our customers.”
[GADS_NEWS]“Our customers will benefit from our joint sales team, the customers will have direct access to the combined portfolio of Air France Industries and KLM Engineering & Maintenance through a single point of contact, regardless of AFI or KLM E&M carries out the maintenance” says Alain Bassil, Executive Vice President Air France Industries.
The combination of KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Air France Industries translates into a world-leading multi-product aircraft maintenance provider with a workforce of 15000 that maintains the full fleet for their parent airlines (over 550 aircraft) and supports in addition approximately 150 major international airlines. With their combined repair capability, integrator expertise, operational support through engine and component pooling and worldwide logistics network, KLM E&M and AFI together offer fully integrated services for all-round maintenance.