Gulf Air

Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air has entered into a three-year maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) agreement with JorAMCo to address the airline’s heavy maintenance and ‘C’ check fleet requirements.

JorAMCo will perform C1, C2, C3 and C4 checks for Gulf Air’s fleet of 26 aircrafts, including A330s, A320-ERs, A320s and A321s. All maintenance will be conducted in JorAMCo’s facilities at Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan.

Gulf Air acting chief executive officer Maher Salman Al Musallam said that JorAMCo’s vast experience and high-quality technical expertise in airframe maintenance is the primary reason the airline selected the company for the contract.

"Secondly, their close proximity to Bahrain has the added benefit that our aircraft will no longer have to leave the region for maintenance, thereby improving efficiency, decreasing turnaround time, reducing ferry charges and ultimately lowering Gulf Air’s operational costs while maintaining the highest quality of safety standards," Musallam added.

Gulf Air can conduct aircraft maintenance including A-checks using engineering resources that are locally available in Bahrain.

Gulf Air acting chief technical officer Jamal Hashim said that the airline’s entire engineering requirement is now based in Bahrain and the Middle East.

"Greater aircraft technical dispatch reliability and higher aircraft availability allow us to operate more frequencies and improve our on-time performance; for which we are already a global leader," Hashim added.

Image: A Gulf Air Airbus A340-312 at London Heathrow Airport. Photo: courtesy of Arpingstone.

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