Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Stations
Aeroflot Group operates an efficient aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) system which services the fleet of Aeroflot airline, subsidiary airlines, and third-party aircraft and ensures high reliability, flight safety, and on-time performance.
The MRO policy of Aeroflot Group airlines provides for strict compliance with the requirements of countries of registration, maintenance programmes, and aircraft lease agreements. It is focused on enhancing capacity and technical competencies, rolling out cutting-edge technological solutions, and providing employee training and development opportunities while constantly improving economic efficiency.
Each of the Group companies has departments responsible for airworthiness and maintenance of operated aircraft. The airlines also cooperate with one another under signed agreements.
Aeroflot Group has in place a strategic programme to centralise maintenance of aircraft and components for Aeroflot and subsidiary airlines. The centralisation provides for separating base and line maintenance.
Aeroflot Group has its own maintenance facilities in Moscow Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports, as well as in Saint Petersburg, Orenburg, Vladivostok, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airports.
The Group includes A-Technics, a specialist aircraft and component maintenance and repair subsidiary operating maintenance centres in Moscow Vnukovo airport and Orenburg airport.
| AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT | AIRWORTHINESS DEPARTMENT | QUALITY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT |
| Maintenance of Aeroflot and other Group airlines’ aircraft | Maintains airworthiness of aircraft operated by Aeroflot airline, manages technical condition of the fleet throughout the entire aircraft life cycle, develops and implements PJSC Aeroflot’s strategy and policy covering aircraft operation | Develops a quality management system for aircraft maintenance and airworthiness |
| Airport and location | Company | Line maintenance | Base maintenance |
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| Sheremetyevo airport (Moscow) | Aeroflot |
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| Vnukovo airport (Moscow) | A-Technics |
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| Pulkovo airport (Saint Petersburg) | Rossiya |
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| Orenburg airport (Orenburg) | A-Technics |
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| Vladivostok airport (Vladivostok) | Aurora |
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| Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) | Aurora |
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PJSC Aeroflot holds and maintains certificates issued by European, Bermudian, and Russian aviation authorities for maintaining airworthiness of the following types of aircraft and components:
- A320 family (line maintenance, A-check, C-check, 6YE-check)
- Boeing 737 (line maintenance, base maintenance)
- Airbus A330 (line maintenance, A-check, C-check)
- Boeing 777 (line maintenance)
- RRJ-95B (line maintenance, base maintenance)
Scheduled maintenance of all types of operated aircraft is performed under programmes developed in line with guidelines provided by aircraft and key components manufacturers. Maintenance of key aircraft components, such as engines, landing gear, and auxiliary power unit (APU) is performed by third-party contractors.
In 2018, PJSC Aeroflot serviced 136 thousand takeoffs at Sheremetyevo (base airport), up 12.1% yearon- year. Labour intensity per flight hour of Aeroflot fleet aircraft was 2.27 hours in 2018 (2.23 in 2017).
Along with its own fleet, PJSC Aeroflot also services third-party customers: around 27 carriers and approximately 42 aircraft maintenance organisations in 2018. Individual maintenance operations, such as maintenance of key aircraft components, are performed by third-party contractors. During 2018, around 57% of Aeroflot airline fleet heavy maintenance operations were performed by in-house maintenance facilities and 43% were subcontracted.
In 2018, Aeroflot continued the construction of Hangar 4 at Sheremetyevo airport, launched in 2017, to perform maintenance and repairs for wide-body Boeing 777s and Airbus A350s, a maintenance annex building, and the foundation for a special-purpose vehicle MRO facility.
A-Technics operations
A-Technics is a specialised aircraft maintenance and repair subsidiary established by Aeroflot Group in 2015. The company is based at Moscow Vnukovo airport, has a branch in Orenburg, and is certified to EASA standards.
In 2018, A-Technics serviced 37 Rossiya’s aircraft, 30 Aeroflot’s aircraft, and 5 Pobeda’s aircraft, as well as other airlines’ aircraft.
MAINTENANCE CAPABILITIES AT VNUKOVO AIRPORT
ORENBURG BRANCH
