Finnair Technical Services and Dutch airline Martinair sign Maintenance Contract

Finnair Technical Services and Dutch airline Martinair have signed an important maintenance contract, which covers the upcoming heavy maintenance checks for five Martinair's MD-11 cargo aircraft. The agreement contains an option for a sixth aircraft.

The first maintenance event, lasting almost a month, has been scheduled to start 14 May. The three next maintenance checks have been planned for January, February and March 2006. The fifth aircraft is expected to come in for servicing in January 2007 and the sixth aircraft possibly at the end of that year.

"According to Martinair's assessment, Finnair's offer was the most competitive when, in addition to the fixed price, quality, aircraft turnaround time and our reliability were taken into account," says Assistant Vice President Sari Kanerva from Finnair Technical Services.

Martinair, founded in 1958, is a private airline company operating scheduled, charter and cargo traffic from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The airline carries almost two million passengers annually to various Mediterranean destinations and it also has flights to Florida, Canada, the Caribbean and Far East holiday destinations. More than half of the company's revenues come from cargo traffic. In total the airline operates to approximately 100 destinations with its fleet of 19 aircraft.

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