SriLankan Engineering extends services for Pakistan’s Airblue

ENGINEERING: SriLankan Engineering recently carried out a significant project to reconfigure the passenger cabins on two Airbus A321 aircraft of Pakistan’s airline Airblue.

Chief Technical Officer of SriLankan, Captain Dick Hutton said: “The programme undertaken for Airblue is yet another feather in the cap of SriLankan Engineering.

We are expanding our aircraft engineering services for other airlines, which serve as an important source of revenue for the company, and foreign exchange for the country.”

SriLankan Engineering is the aircraft maintenance arm of SriLankan Airlines, and has in recent years invested

 heavily towards upgrading its engineering facilities at Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).

Senior Manager Aircraft Engineering, D.A.G. Jayasuriya said: “SriLankan Engineering has been busy in the past few months. We just completed major maintenance checks on two Airbus A330-200 aircraft of our strategic partner Emirates and we are in discussions with several airlines for future projects.”

Ian Dunning, Senior Manager Aircraft Maintenance, said: “The Aircraft Engineers and Technicians of SriLankan Engineering have earned a reputation for excellence over the years, and these projects tend to strengthen their already considerable experience, especially with regard to Airbus aircraft.”

SriLankan itself has a fleet comprising Airbus A340, A330 and A320 aircraft and also carried out routine maintenance work on aircraft of Airbus, Boeing and other manufacturers for airlines that operate to BIA.

The impressive standards of SriLankan Engineering in aircraft maintenance were recognized by Airbus Industrie itself with the global award of “World’s Most Efficient Operator of Airbus A330s” in the small fleet category.

SriLankan Engineering is currently carrying out further improvements to its facilities in order to obtain certification in the European Aviation Engineering standard EASA 145.

This would enable the airline to provide maintenance services for aircraft operated under this regulatory standard, and greatly increase its marketability.

SriLankan also provides training for aircraft engineers of other airlines, at its Technical Training School at BIA.