Lufthansa Technik

(Chairman of the Supervisory Board)

  • August Wilhelm Henningsen (CEO)
  • Peter Jansen ( Chief Financial Officer)
  • Thomas Stüger (Products, Services & IT)

Lufthansa Technik AG ( " LHT " ) is a provider of MRO services (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul - Maintenance, repair and overhaul) of aircraft with 50 offices worldwide. The Lufthansa Technik Group is 100 percent owned by its parent company, German Lufthansa AG and includes 32 technical maintenance operations and investments in Europe, Asia and America with more than 26,500 employees (as of 2009 ).

Your base has Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg Airport, another important German sites are the two Lufthansa hubs Frankfurt Rhine -Main and Munich and the Berlin airports Tegel ( Line Maintenance) and Schönefeld ( C-checks ).

  • 3.1 VIP aircraft
  • 6.1 External links
  • 6.2 Notes and references

Turnover

Worldwide, the MRO market had in 2008 for all airlines together an estimated volume of 42 billion U.S. dollars. Of the for LHT in question figure is 34 billion U.S. dollars. With a share of about 15 per cent of this amount, the company is the world market leader.

History

1950

1953 laid the first foundation stone for the technical basis for the re-establishment of Lufthansa in the western part of the Hamburg airport. In March 1955, is already the first double hall, which can accommodate three four-engine propeller aircraft. 1957 come an office building and the engine overhaul this with electroplating.

1960

1960, with the beginning of the jet age, the Lufthansa building a maintenance base at Frankfurt Airport to deploy its long-haul aircraft there. 1962 built a test bed for jet engines in Hamburg, as well as the world's first noise protection hangar. The business is also expanding to external customers. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration granted Lufthansa permission to overhaul the engines and aircraft of American Airlines.

1970

Despite the oil crisis, order intake reached double-digit growth rates. Reason for this is that Lufthansa has grown into a highly regarded technology companies. The largest increase comes from an alliance between Lufthansa, Air France, Sabena and Alitalia, the Atlas Group. In 1976, the first Boeing 747 is maintained in Hamburg.

1980

End of the 1980s, a new hall for up to three wide-body aircraft produced in Hamburg. Also, a paint shop is being built according to the latest labor and environmental protection policies.

1990

1994 arises from the technical area of Lufthansa, Lufthansa Technik AG, an independent 100 - percent subsidiary of Lufthansa.

2000

In December 2007, the new maintenance hangar for the Airbus A 380 was opened in Frankfurt. The first Airbus A380 was delivered on 19 May 2010 at Lufthansa.

In early 2009 the new 50 million euro expensive engine overhaul hangar was opened for the CFM family. The new hall extended the production area to 9,000 m² of logistics space by 1,500 square meters and the office and service area by 9,000 square meters. The new hall, the capacity of the overtaken engines of around 320 rises to over 400 a year. Approx. 700 people will be employed in the new complex.

In 2009 the company Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International ( LTMI ) founded with its headquarters in Frankfurt, in the Condor / Cargo Technik ( CCT) rises. When LTMI about 1000 people will be employed. She takes care of the maintenance of the aircraft customers outside the Lufthansa Passenger Airlines.

Divisions

The main products of Lufthansa Technik are the maintenance and overhaul of aircraft, engine and landing gear overhaul, components and logistics and the area VIP aircraft. Next Lufthansa Technik offers the Total Component Support TCS for equipment and engine parts and the Total Technical Support TTS. This product integrates all services of the company.

Lufthansa Technik is divided into six business areas:

  • Maintenance
  • Aircraft Overhaul
  • Engines
  • Devices
  • Suspensions
  • Completion and maintenance of VIP aircraft

VIP aircraft

Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg, is a world leader in the conversion of passenger aircraft in private jets. Based on the A319 Airbus developed the Corporate Jetliner (ACJ ), which is provided at the shipyard of Lufthansa Technik VIP interiors. The Airbus A318 Elite, the VIP version of the Airbus A318, was also equipped by Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg - in the meantime, the A318 Elite features at the company BizJet International, a 100% subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG, in the location Tulsa Oklahoma moved. Furthermore, Boeing be converted 747-8 in Hamburg.

Investments

Lufthansa Technik has 30 worldwide subsidiaries and affiliates.

Types of business entity CFM International
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