{"id":183976,"date":"2025-05-28T07:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/?p=183976"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:43:45","slug":"lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Technik Malta wins SAS A350 maintenance contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"465\">SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has signed a multi-year agreement with Lufthansa Technik for base maintenance services on its Airbus A350 fleet.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"465\">Starting in 2026, these maintenance checks will be carried out at Lufthansa Technik Malta, the Group\u2019s European Center of Excellence for widebody aircraft overhauls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"733\">The decision follows a successful initial base maintenance event on an SAS A350-900 performed at the Maltese facility in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"733\">Building on this experience, SAS has opted to send additional A350 aircraft to the site for scheduled two-, four-, and six-year checks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"976\">The A350, a key long-haul aircraft in SAS\u2019s fleet since 2019, typically operates on routes connecting the airline\u2019s Copenhagen-Kastrup hub with destinations across North America and Asia. Currently, the SAS A350 fleet includes four aircraft.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"978\" data-end=\"1399\">This new contract deepens the long-standing partnership between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sasgroup.net\/about-sas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lufthansa-technik.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lufthansa Technik<\/a>, which already includes a variety of support services such as an Aircraft Production Inspection Program (APIP) for the A320neo fleet, Total Component Support (TCS), and Part-21 engineering services across the airline&#8217;s operations. The TCS programme will also support component availability during the upcoming A350 layovers in Malta.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1546\">Additionally, the agreement allows flexibility for supplemental services, including potential aircraft modifications during maintenance downtime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-wins-hebei-airlines-cfm56-7b-engines-mro-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lufthansa Technik wins Hebei Airlines\u2019 CFM56-7B engines MRO deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"465\">SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has signed a multi-year agreement with Lufthansa Technik for base maintenance services on its Airbus A350 fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":183977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,33,1131,28,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft-mro-management","category-facilities","category-industry-news","category-mro","category-latest-news-mro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lufthansa Technik Malta wins SAS A350 maintenance contract<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Starting in 2026, the SAS A350 maintenance checks will be carried out at the Lufthansa Technik Malta facility.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lufthansa Technik Malta wins SAS A350 maintenance contract\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Starting in 2026, the SAS A350 maintenance checks will be carried out at the Lufthansa Technik Malta facility.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aviation Business News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-28T06:45:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-27T15:43:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/05\/resized-for-web-credit-SAS.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"924\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Craig Waters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Craig Waters\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"NewsArticle\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Craig Waters\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/cc8864934f2f28b34825934679c0a383\"},\"headline\":\"Lufthansa Technik Malta wins SAS A350 maintenance contract\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-28T06:45:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-27T15:43:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract\/\"},\"wordCount\":223,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/mro\/latest-news-mro\/lufthansa-technik-malta-wins-sas-a350-maintenance-contract\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aviationbusinessnews.com\/resources\/uploads\/2025\/05\/resized-for-web-credit-SAS.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Aircraft &amp; 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