Seven-Year Contract Valued At $27 Million

Malaysia Airlines and ATR announced this week the signing of a Global Maintenance Agreement (GMA), valued at US $27 million, for spare parts and maintenance services for the new ATR 72-500 fleet of the two Malaysia Airlines' subsidiaries, MASwings and Firefly. 

Under this seven-year GMA, ATR will handle the repair of equipment and line replaceable units, as well as the inventory of spare parts.

"The partnership with ATR will allow us quick and fast access, at an optimal cost, to every part of the maintenance process of the ATR aircraft in our fleet," said Mr. Mohd Roslan Ismail, Senior General Manager (Engineering & Maintenance) of Malaysia Airlines. "This makes a lot of economic sense to us as the long-term support of ATR allows us to optimize the introduction of ATRs into Firefly and MASwings."

"We are extremely pleased and proud of the decision of Malaysia Airlines to select ATR for the maintenance of their aircraft components", said Jean-Pierre Cousserans, ATR Senior Vice-President Customer Services. "This is another significant step in the growing partnership that is now established between Malaysia Airlines, Firefly and MASwings, and ATR." He added: "We are very excited by this project and we will soon extend this partnership to other activities, dedicated to the support of the ATR aircraft in Asia."

The Global Maintenance Agreement (GMA) offers an extensive and flexible maintenance services package, including guaranteed spare parts availability, maintenance guaranteed prices and simplification through the ATR single channel.

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