AirAsia X Adds Airframe MRO at LHT Philippines

By Elyse Moody elyse_moody@aviationweek.com

Long-haul, low-cost carrier AirAsia X has decided to renew a supplemental airframe maintenance agreement with Lufthansa Technik Philippines in Manila, covering light C checks on its Airbus fleet. The extension suggests Lufthansa Technik Philippines’ tactics for retaining the region’s low-cost carriers as customers are working.

The new contract expands a three-year base maintenance agreement signed last year, which already provided C checks, a heavy ...

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