Saudi Arabian low-cost carrier flyadeal is boosting maintenance services for its fleet through new software and MRO agreements.
As part of a five-year engineering services contract extension with Lufthansa Technik (LHT), flyadeal is opting for Swiss-AS’s AMOS Airline Edition and AMOScloud software to digitalize its maintenance and engineering operations. In addition to maintenance services, LHT will be offering flyadeal lifetime status tracking and in-depth reliability analysis for its fleet using AMOS software.
“This is a major step towards optimizing flyadeal’s maintenance activities through digital platforms, ensuring greater operational efficiency and lower operational costs,” says Ahmed Bakadam, flyadeal’s director of maintenance and engineering.
According to Frank Martens, senior director of sales for LHT’s Aviatar platform, aircraft engineering services and digital products, the digital services will enable technical optimization of flyadeal’s fleet through “digital, intelligent workflows” and “data-driven recommendations for corrective actions, as well as follow-up and feedback for continuous monitoring.”
LHT took ownership of Swiss-AS in late 2022 and integrated its AMOS software products with Aviatar and flydocs digital maintenance archives in early 2023 as part of efforts to enable easier data exchange and synergies. Since then, a wide variety of airlines and MRO providers have signed up for or completed deployment of AMOS. For instance, so far this this year AMOS has been deployed by airlines such as Avianca, SCAT Airlines and SriLankan Airlines, and MRO providers such as Asia Digital Engineering, Magnetic Group and Turkish Technic have selected the software. Saudi Arabian carriers flynas and Riyadh Air both selected AMOS last year.
Beyond its strengthened partnership with LHT, flyadeal has also signed other maintenance agreements this year in preparation for its growing fleet, which includes 22 Airbus A320neos and 39 A321neos on order. At MRO Middle East in March, it awarded Saudia Technic, the MRO arm of flyadeal’s parent company Saudia Group, a contract for 10 A320neo C checks throughout 2024.
It also signed a long-term maintenance agreement with Safran Nacelles at MRO Middle East, which covers nacelles for the CFM International Leap 1As powering its A320neos. Under the deal, it will utilize services at Dubai-based AMES, a 50/50 joint venture between Safran Nacelles and AFI KLM E&M.
