AEROSTAR OF ROMANIA TO CARRY OUT FURTHER MRO WORK FOR ROYAL AIR MAROC AND PEGASUS AIRLINES OF TURKEY DURING 2013

In addition to winning new MRO customers, Aerostar S.A. the leading Romanian aerospace company is also ensuring that it retains existing customers and winning repeat business from them.

In what is shaping up to be a busy first quarter of 2013 for the company, further Boeing 737s from Royal Air Maroc and Pegasus Airlines of Turkey are scheduled to arrive at Aerostar’s Bacau facility in north-eastern Romania for heavy maintenance visits.

Today, 22 January, a Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-800 passenger airliner is arriving at Bacau for a ‘D01’ check. Since Royal Air Maroc selected Aerostar as an option for MRO work on its Boeing 737 fleet in 2010, the Romanian company has carried out work on 15 aircraft in total.

Co-operation with leading low-cost privately-owned Turkish airline Pegasus which began in 2007 will grow in 2013. In the first quarter of this year three Boeing 737s (one Boeing 737-400 and two Boeing 737-800s) from Pegasus will arrive in Bacau for ‘C’ checks.

Ovidiu Buhai, Director Aviation MRO for Aerostar said today: “Whilst it is important that we win business from new customers, it is also vital that we do our best to retain the valued customers that we have secured in previous years. We are pleased with the co-operation that we have enjoyed with these customers and will work hard to continue to provide a competitive and quality service for them.”