Air Pacific, Fiji’s national airline has contracted Air France Industries KLM Engineering and Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) to provide support for its incoming A330-200 fleet. The agreement includes technical fleet management services, component repair, and availability via dedicated logistics support, access to AFI KLM E&M’s dedicated regional A330 spares pool, and the supply of an A330 Main Base Kit on Air Pacific premises.
Dave Pflieger, Air Pacific’s Managing Director & CEO said: “Our team here in Fiji is delighted to be working with AFI KLM E&M to induct and maintain our new A330 fleet. AFI KLM E&M has an incredible reputation for maintenance and engineering, safety, reliability, adaptive maintenance solutions, and expertise throughout the region. In addition, they have also agreed to use their expertise in A330 aircraft to train our local engineers to perform A330 maintenance and eventually in-source some of this work over the longer term. Air Pacific will continue to do our own line maintenance and “A” checks at our Nadi, Fiji facility, while AFI KLM E&M’s will provide us with engineering and fleet technical assistance as well as a local inventory of spare parts that will significantly enhance the operational availability of our components and aircraft. That, in turn, will mean greater fleet reliability for our customers.”
“AFI KLM E&M is a great complement to our other world-class partners, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Panasonic and others, and they will have an essential role to play as we induct our new fleet of A330s and complete our transformation from Air Pacific to Fiji Airways this year.”
Franck Terner, Air France Industries President, said: “We are truly looking forward to having Air Pacific join our maintenance family and helping the airline complete its exciting and successful turnaround. AFI KLM E&M continues its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region by attracting new clients, and will strive to prove itself worthy of Air Pacific’s trust.”
