Lufthansa Technik: Complete support and training for Nigeria's Arik Air

Lufthansa Technik AG and Nigeria’s Arik Air, the largest airline in
western Africa, are expanding their partnership in the technical care
of the airline’s fleet. The cooperation between the two companies,
which has existed since the airline began operations in 2006, has now
been expanded as part of a Total Operational Management (TOM)
contract and extended by six years.

In addition to component support and maintenance for the airline’s
current medium-haul fleet of 13 Boeing 737 NGs and four Bombardier
CRJ900s, Lufthansa Technik will now take on technical management and
carry out all planned C-checks during the next six years at one of
its sites. This scope of service applies not just to Arik Air’s
existing Boeing fleet, but also to eight Boeing 737 NGs that have
been ordered. As part of the TOM contract, a fleet manager from
Lufthansa Technik will coordinate the two companies’ technical
cooperation from Arik Air’s headquarters in Lagos.

Moreover, Lufthansa Technik will support the airline – one of its
most important African customers – by providing training and
qualification measures for the airline’s own mechanics, starting with
courses for line maintenance qualification on site in Nigeria. This
educational partnership will be extended to other fields over the
next few years at the discretion of the partners. Lufthansa Technik
will also provide consulting to Arik Air in support of the
establishment of a wheel workshop in Lagos.

“By this extended and expanded six year contract, we signal to both
our travelling customers and the aviation community at large our
resolute determination to continue underpinning our operations with
world-leading serviceability protocols available only through a
select cadre of maintenance providers. Lufthansa Technik AG enjoys a
place of prominence within this distinguished group and, as such,
Arik Air is proud to continue building upon our successful
partnership”, said Dr. Michael Arumemi-Ikhide, Group CEO and
President at Arik Air.

“We are proud to have been a partner of Arik Air for as long as the
airline has existed, and we’re already looking forward to the next
chapter in this proven cooperation,” said Walter Heerdt, Senior Vice
President Marketing & Sales at Lufthansa Technik.

Arik Air was founded in 2004 and is headquartered at Murtala Mohammed
International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. The airline serves 28
destinations in western Africa and operates three long-haul flights
to London, Johannesburg and New York.