AAR , a global provider of aviation services to airlines, OEMs and MROs, has opened a parts warehouse at Dubai World Central Airport. The supply chain hub closes the gap between vital aircraft components and the growing list of commercial and regional carriers operating in the Middle East.
AAR leverages its partnerships with industry-leading OEMs such as Eaton, Unison, UTAS, Meggitt and Lord to stock the warehouse with a broad array of factory-new aircraft components that are powering aircraft in the Middle East. So when an operator has an aircraft on the ground, they can now get the needed part quickly.
“We recognized a need in the region to improve support and reduce lead times for customers and to help our OEM partners better serve local operators while reducing their overhead burden,” said Paul Richardson, AAR vice president of Sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
The warehouse is an expansion of AAR’s growth in the Middle East. AAR has a sales team based in the World Trade Center in Abu Dhabi and has extended its supply chain and Airlift offerings in the region where both military and commercial aviation activity is growing. AAR recently signed a multimillion-dollar treaty to provide power-by-the-hour (PBH) component inventory management and repair services to the expanding airline flydubai. On the government side, AAR provides tip-to-tail Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) for the Afghan C-130 fleet.
