Technics, a world leading maintenance, repair and overhaul
(MRO) service provider, on November 26 inked a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth 150 million USD involving the provision of MRO services on Vietjet’s CFM56-5B engine fleet,
installed on their Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft.
The signing ceremonies in Bern, Switzerland, were witnessed by Vietnamese
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, President of the Swiss Confederation Guy Parmelin,
high-ranking officials and business representatives of both countries
during the Vietnamese leader’s official visit to Switzerland.
Under the MoU, the work on the
engines will be carried out at SR Technics’ world-renowned facilities at Zurich
Airport in Switzerland and in Vietnam. The MoU also includes providing engine
maintenance, technical and training services, component requirements and
repair, and setting up a new Aviation training center, as a joint venture
between Vietjet and SR Technics.
Vietjet and Swiss Aviation Software (Swiss-AS), the world’s leading provider of
aviation maintenance solutions based in Switzerland, also signed a strategic
cooperation agreement to further extend Vietjet’s adoption of Swiss-AS’s
maintenance and engineering solution AMOS to support Vietjet’s fleet.
The two parties will extend
their cooperation to cover various scopes, strengthening the existing long-term
strategic partnership over the next ten years. Swiss-AS and its relevant
subsidiaries will provide Vietjet the added platform of AMOS mobile/EXEC for aircraft
technical management on mobile devices, thus allowing full automation and
digitalisation for Vietjet’s engineers.
In addition, Vietjet will use
the system with more capacity and update other AMOS modules to better serve
in-house management including automation of planning, aircraft scheduling…