Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is positioning itself as a developer and manufacturer of products for aircraft cabins, bundling all these activities in a new original equipment innovation product division.
Maintenance execs frequently worry about the supply of well-trained technicians, yet somehow skilled technicians always seem to be forthcoming as long as wages are sufficient. But will there always be enough well-trained maintenance managers? Here, the challenge is quality, not quantity. How can managers up their game as the demands of aircraft maintenance change? New models, new systems and new materials are always coming into fleets, and OEMs generally supply the training to handle the new technologies. But maintenance is changing in more fundamental ways, too.
