Lufthansa Technik servicing Brussels Airlines fleet
Video: Mark Zammit Cordina
Lufthansa Technik has started servicing Brussels Airlines aircraft.
Five A330s are receiving heavy maintenance and will be refitted with a new cabin and other not so intensive maintenance will be carried out on two A319s.
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech visited Lufthansa Technik this afternoon where the company was working on the first of the aircraft
The job required dedicated technical people and had to involve Airbus, the original suppliers of the aircraft.
Brussels Airlines vice-president of communications Geert Sciot said the airline could have gone to several other companies on the market which all offered same service, including one in Asia, but opted for Malta because of the price quality ratio and its excellent reputation.
Mr Fenech thanked Lufthansa Technik and Brussels Airlines as well as all players involved, including the employees.
He said that Lufthansa's investment and its employees' committment, had helped the country weather the financial storm.
Lufthansa Technik employed 600 workers, most of them Maltese, making the facility the second largest in Europe in terms of maintenance.
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Chris Cappello
Nov 2nd 2011, 21:12
lil kull min kiteb hawn taht.... INTHOM BIS-SERJETA?!?!?!?!?!?!?! xandhom x' jaqsmu PL u PN kif f' kull haga f dan il-pajjiez trid tithol il-politika? il-lufthansa tihu il-kuntratti ghas-semplici raguni li ihalsu bis-6 euros xi haga is-sija meta ga lufthansa tachnik barra jigu imhalsin bi 25 euro is-sija u aktar meta jihdu l-istess sugru u jifirmaw ghal affarjiet bhal ta barra u kwalifikati daqshom jekk mhux iktar min ta barra ghal hekk jirnexila tihu kuntratti ghax tista toffri prezz inqas min haddiehor....
ex-Lufthansa composite technician...
Mark Demicoli
Nov 3rd 2011, 15:33
You don't know how much you are not well informed my friend. Lufthnsa Technik Malta has much higher prices than Lufthansa Technik Sofia and Budapest, and Phillipines. In fact hourly rate is well over 40euros (this is what is charged no what is obviously paid to the employees which is much much much less).
It's the quality/price ratio which is really a winner for this company + its strategic position in the centre of the mediterranean!
Joe Vella
Nov 2nd 2011, 17:20
The Greatest gift the PL gave to Maltese workers was the creation of the Department of ImmIgration and the Korpi tax-Xoghol. ON the other hand the Greatest gifts that the PN gave to Maltese workers was the dismantling of the Immigration Department and the dismantling of the Korpi tax-Xoghol, Which the PN replace with ongoing creation of gainful employment and better work for all Maltese workers.
m farrugia
Nov 2nd 2011, 19:11
ghidilhom joe u wara li ghamilhom sinjuri lil tad drydocks dahlu luftansa teck (u dawn mhux mill mcast) u hadu post it tfal taghna li hergin mill mcast.
Charles Micallef
Nov 2nd 2011, 17:08
What ever happened to SR Technics?
What does the Minister not pay them a visit accompanied by the press?
Michelle Pirotta
Nov 2nd 2011, 18:04
Charles, out of curiosity I just googled "SR Technics Tonio Fenech" -and this propped up
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110405/local/tourism-growing-in-spite-of-accommodation-tax-minister.358407
Minister was at SRT just a few months ago...so..I dont get your point.
J Farrugia
Nov 2nd 2011, 15:39
Tonio, why didn't you have the guts to go and say hello to the KM workers who are in Limbo because of you and your governments incompitance, oh i forgot how yellow you really are.
George Calleja
Nov 2nd 2011, 15:32
And yesterday we had a blogger moaning that Lufthansa were to reduce Maltese workers
Mark Demicoli
Nov 2nd 2011, 15:51
just for your info, this summer Lufthansa technik malta was sending people on forced leave for a span of the 2 summer months, where the hangars where almost empty. God bless the new contracts but in the world of aircraft mainetnance you never know your future, it can change from 1 day to another
Tony Mangion
Nov 2nd 2011, 14:41
If it wasn't for Airmalta we do not have the Lufthansa technik
Mario Micallef
Nov 2nd 2011, 15:24
Ijja? ghaliex? ghax qeghda share holder fil-Lufthansa? u halluna! dawn jigu hawn biex jinvestu meta jaraw kemm jigihom il-prezz biex taghmel dan ix-xoghol per capita! tihdux glorja fuq affarijiet li mhux veri!
Joseph Scicluna
Nov 2nd 2011, 15:47
Daqs kemm Grecja falliet minhabba l-Air Malta. Ibqa sejjer gbin iddahhaqniex!!!!!
Joe Vella
Nov 2nd 2011, 16:08
Dear Mangion, Lufthansa is in Malta because Maltese students and workers have an MCST to go to. Yes the very same MCST that the PL closed down Only for the PN to open again as soon it came to govern again 1998 and the same MCST that under this government is embarking in 50 million euros expansion. Thanks to a Government that believes in the potential of its people that strives always to give Maltese workers gainful employment contributing towards the GDP of the Country. ; Unlike the PL who gave Maltese workers the famous " :Korpi tax- Xoghol" that contribute nothing to the National good. To add insult to the Maltese workers the PL even took away the right to strike from these workers.
B Borg
Nov 2nd 2011, 14:19
Now we got used to it, if it is a good news, we have the Hon Minister smiling at flashes. If then it is a bad news maybe we get a short note from the ministry saying that is a private matter, and the gov have nothing to do with it
J Busuttil
Nov 2nd 2011, 14:48
@ B.Borg
Let me re phrase it for you: " Now we got used to it, if it is a good news" the doom and gloom PL bloggers are on vacation.