OceanAir signs multiyear Landing Gear Overhaul deal with Fokker Services
Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, February 6th, 2012
Fokker Services has signed a multi-year agreement with OceanAir Linhas Aereas S.A., doing business as Avianca in Brazil to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services on the airline’s Goodrich Fokker 100 LDG landing gear. With this agreement OceanAir follows other operators in reserving capacity for their F100 LDG overhauls for the upcoming overhaul peak.
Fokker Services in Woensdrecht, The Netherlands offers a full range of maintenance, repair and overhaul services on the Goodrich landing gears, as well as the largest amount of exchange gear sets available in the world.
“We are very pleased that one year after signing our FLY Fokker Abacus agreement, we signed this agreement with OceanAir, a long-time and highly regarded customer in Brazil”, says Leon Kouters, VP Marketing & Sales Fokker Services, Inc.
“We signed this agreement with Fokker Services since they provided the right mix of quality, cost and availability for the overhaul of all of our Fokker 100 gears for the upcoming three years ”, says Santiago Diago of OceanAir/Avianca Brazil.
About Ocean Air
Ocean Air (doing business in Brazil as Avianca since April 2010) is a leading Brazilian trunk airline serving more than 20 domestic and international destinations. It operates a growing fleet of Fokker 100 and Airbus A320 family aircraft offering unrivaled levels of comfort, on time performance and quality standards that include, among other amenities, individual AVOD in-flight entertainment system and hot meals on legs as short as 35 minutes.
About Fokker Services
At present there are more than 600 Fokker aircraft operational across the world. The Fokker aircraft has earned a reputation for advanced technologies, comfort, operational reliability, low noise level and durability. Many consider the Fokker among the best mid-size aircraft ever built. Besides the Fokker aircraft, Fokker Services is serving operators with the Bombardier Dash 8 and other out of production aircraft, with its logistic flight hour program ABACUS.
Fokker Services is part of Fokker Technologies, which develops and produces advanced components and systems for the aerospace industry, and supplies integrated maintenance services and products to aircraft owners and operators. In 2010 the group achieved a turnover of € 616 million with 3,700 employees.
For more information, please contact:
Fokker Services B.V., P.O. Box 1357, 2130 EL Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
Jorgen Tesselaar: jorgen.tesselaar@fokker.com
Phone +31 88 628 0555 www.fokkerservices.com