First row left to right: Zheng Yan, executive director, sales & supply, Ameco Beijing; Cyril Pacary, vice-president, maintenance & engineering, ABC; and Jan Butzmann, senior director, marketing and sales, Ameco Beijing. Second row left to right: Chai Weixi, CEO and general manager, Ameco Beijing; and Andreas Meisel, general manager, Ameco Beijing

Ameco Beijing to maintain ABC

Ameco Beijing (Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Corporation) has entered into a line maintenance agreement with Air Bridge Cargo Airlines (ABC) to provide full line maintenance technical services for ABC’s Boeing 747-200 aircraft at both Beijing (five weekly) and Shanghai (daily) airports effective May 1. Both parties also conducted a 1A check agreement on one Boeing 747-200 this month.

ABC is a subsidiary of Volga Dnepr Airlines of Moscow. This agreement expands Ameco Beijing’s share in the aviation market in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a federation of eleven former Soviet republics. In addition to ABC, Ameco’s CIS-based customers are Transaero (Boeing fleet heavy maintenance), Aeroflot (Boeing 777 heavy maintenance and line maintenance), TESIS (a five-year GTA for Boeing 747 heavy maintenance), AIR-ASTANA (line maintenance) and Aerosvit Airlines (line maintenance). The total number of Ameco’s international line maintenance customers is over 45.

Ameco Beijing also recently concluded an agreement with U.S.-based Ryan International Airlines for engine repair and overhaul on the RB211-535 engines that power Ryan’s fleet of Boeing 757 airliners. At press time it was also performing its first 8C-check on an A340 of Air China Ltd., the company’s first-ever heavy maintenance on an Airbus wide-body aircraft.