Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Airlines and Air France Industries-KLM Engineering and Maintenance (AFI-KLM E andM) signed an agreement for component support for Ethiopian Boeing 777 fleet today.
The agreement was signed by Ethiopian Airlines CEO Mesfin Tasew and AFI-KLM E andM Senior Commercial Vice President Pierre Teboul.
CEO Mesfin said on the occasion it is a component support agreement for Ethiopian and Boeing, and it is ten-year contract covering over 500 components for which Ethiopian Airlines does not have internal repair capability.
Thanking the company for the service it has been providing, he added that the agreement was reached based on ‘our good experience of the service that we have been getting in the past.’
AFI-KLM E andM Senior Commercial Vice President Pierre Teboul said on his part that his company is committed to working and cooperating with Ethiopian Airlines.
“Ethiopian Airlines and AFI-KLM E andM are not new to work together. We already did it in the past.”
And the next step would be to t
hink about additional cooperation, he added.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency