Another milestone has been reached in advance of the first passenger flight of an Lufthansa A350-900: After more than 1,700 working hours in Lufthansa Technik’s maintenance hangar in Munich, the cabin installations are complete and the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) has been issued by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The aircraft is therefore technically cleared to enter the planned service.
The maintenance concept was developed in collaboration between the aircraft maintenance unit in Munich and Lufthansa Technik Engineering in Frankfurt. Engineers will move their offices from Frankfurt to Munich when work on A350 begin, and employees from Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Panasonic will be on hand to provide help during the first few weeks as well, so that a high level of technical reliability can be ensured from the start.
“A total of 20 employees from our team worked with colleagues from Munich, Hamburg and Frankfurt on the aircraft over the past three weeks,” explains Sven Pawliska, who heads up the long-haul aircraft maintenance at Lufthansa Technik in Munich. “The installation of the Premium Economy Class and new self-service racks in the Business Class were among the upgrades that are most visible to passengers.”
