Delta TechOps seeks to double its turnover within five years |
| Emilie Drab |
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16 JAN 2020 | 244 words
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The future looks bright for Delta TechOps. The MRO subsidiary of Delta Air Lines has laid out its growth forecasts for the coming years and is targeting no less than a doubling of its turnover by 2024 in relation to 2019. While it should exceed initial expectations and achieve 880 million dollars for last year, it could reach one billion dollars by 2021.
This growth will be driven by engine maintenance. Delta TechOps estimates that it should be carrying out over 7000 workshop inspections over the next thirty years, activity which comes in particular from the partnerships it has recently signed with Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney to service new generation engines (GTF, Trent 1000, 7000 and XWB).
For these four types of engine, the company is basing itself on 20% annual growth in the worldwide fleet per year until 2029. Growth will be especially fast for Pratt & Whitney's PurePower family - which will be expanding very quickly at Delta Air Lines in parallel since it will be powering its A220 and A321neo fleet.
The decision to adopt these maintenance capabilities, for the parent airline fleet as priority but without excluding contracts for third parties, required major investments, of which one of the most significant was the construction of a new state-of-the-art test cell for large engines (up to 150,000 pound thrust capacity) which was inaugurated in February last year.
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Emilie Drab
Assistant editor
Civil aerospace, Air transport
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