PARIS AIR SHOW, TAP Maintenance & Engineering and Air France Industries and KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) have extended their business relationship to cover the repair support for the Airbus A330 and Airbus A340 components and support.
APU maintenance of TAP Portugal's fleet of Airbus A330 and Airbus A340 aircraft, will be carried out by AFI KLM E&M's subsidiary EPCOR. While TAP M&E will provide heavy maintenance services for Airbus A33 aircraft and Airbus A340 aircraft of the Air France KLM Group fleet.
AFI KLM E&M and TAP M&E have been cooperating together for over 15 years, on numerous programs.
Carlos Ruivo, vice-president marketing and sales of TAP Maintenance & Engineering, said: "Our two MRO's have been working together for many years now and we have complete confidence in AFI KLM E&M's ability to take our needs into account and deliver top quality maintenance services in terms of cost and quality that complement our MRO business activities. On the other hand we are delighted for the trust that AFI KLM E&M deposits in TAP M&E airframe work quality and efficiency which allowed putting our win-win relationship on a long-term."
Fabrice Defrance, AFI KLM E&M senior vice president commercial, said: "TAP M&E has been enjoying our responsiveness and adaptiveness® for now some long time and today confirms its decision to get some significant AFI KLM E&M services; as an airline MRO, we have also enjoyed in the past the quality of the airframe services that TAP M&E offered and we are quite satisfied to extend such services with this strong mutual agreement"
Romain Helmer, EPCOR managing director, added: "We are very delighted to welcome TAP M&E as our new customer. We will strive to be worthy of the trust they have placed in us by being an adaptive and reliable partner for A330/A340 APU Maintenance."
