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China Airlines signed AMA agreement with Airbus

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President S.C. Hsieh of China Airlines, announced the signing of the Airbus MRO Alliance (AMA) agreement with Airbus today. China Airlines became the first initial member to sign the AMA contract with Airbus.

On 21st Dec 2016, China Airlines and Airbus signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for engineering and maintenance field cooperation. The goal is to comprehensively upgrade China Airlines engineering, maintenance and technology capabilities through Airbus support, and to join Airbus' maintenance and training network to increase sales of related services.

To enhance and strengthen its after-sales service, Airbus formed an Airbus MRO Alliance (AMA) in June 2017 and invited China Airlines to join as one of six initial members. Airbus continued holding an initial AMA members meeting at the end of March 2018. Four themes of KPI, Skywise for big data application, Airbus engineering technical support, and Material support are discussed with Airbus. In order to demonstrate the importance and determination of this maintenance alliance, Airbus intends to complete the signing of the basic contract with each member by the end of June 2018, and China Airlines has also become the first of the six initial AMA members to sign the contract. (Note: 6 initial members of AMA include: AAR, Aeroman, Sabena Technics, Etihad Airways Engineering, China Airlines, GAMECO).

華航宣布與空中巴士簽署維修聯盟合約

中華航空總經理謝世謙於法國時間11日宣布與空中巴士(Airbus) 簽署維修聯盟 (Airbus MRO Alliance簡稱AMA) 合約,華航成為全球航空公司中,第一位與空中巴士簽署AMA合約之創始會員。

2016年12月21日華航與空中巴士簽署合作意向書(MOU),目標為透過空中巴士支援,全面提升華航的維修、工程、以及技術等能力,並加入空中巴士維修及訓練網絡以提升相關服務之銷售能力。

空中巴士為提升及加強其售後服務,於 2017 年 6 月成立維修聯盟 (AMA), 邀請華航加入成為創始會員,續於 2018 年 3 月底舉辦 AMA 初始會員大會,並就聯盟的運作模式與 KPI、SkyWise 大數據系統應用、空中巴士工程技術支援及航材支援等四個面向。為展示對此維修聯盟之重視與決心,Airbus 規劃於 2018 年 6 月底前與各會員完成基礎合約之簽署,華航也成為該維修聯盟6個創始會員中第一個完成合約簽署之會員。(註: AMA 6 個創始會員包括: AARAeromanSabena TechnicsEtihad Airways EngineeringChina AirlinesGAMECO)。

This press release was sourced from China Airlines on 13-Jun-2018.