AMSTERDAM—Air Europa combined its internal line maintenance and heavy maintenance division, Globalia Maintenance, into a single unit called Air Europa Technics on Oct. 28 to leverage scale, strengthen its offerings and better position it for growth.
“We are combining the DNA of Air Europa with the technical expertise of Globalia Maintenance as the maintenance provider, widening the proposal of different services that we offer to customers,” says Oscar Pérez, the MRO's managing director, during a conversation at Aviation Week’s MRO Europe. The plan also includes creating “Air Europa Technics Academy to feed the market with additional technicians that we know is a challenge nowadays,” he says.
The move builds off the Air Europa brand and combines its supply chains and buying power to “have better leverage with suppliers and better relationships with OEMs,” says Angel Garcia Merino, Air Europa Technics’ Palma de Mallorca Airport hangar director.
Combining line and heavy maintenance services also positions it to better grow its third-party maintenance services. While offering line maintenance to third parties will be a new service for the company, half of Globalia Maintenance’s heavy maintenance workload came from external customers, the other half from Air Europa.
The new company signed a two-year nose-to-tail heavy maintenance contract with Eurowings Technik on Oct. 28 at MRO Europe, Garcia says, which adds to customers Vueling, SAS and Wizz Air.
As part of its strategic plan, Air Europa Technics intends to make “significant investment” in heavy maintenance capacity. Globalia opened a widebody hangar in Madrid in 2024 and would like to add a widebody and narrowbody slot to its Palma de Mallorca facility, which focuses on narrowbodies, he says.
It also plans to add component repair capabilities at its facility in Madrid-Barajas Airport, starting with components such as “radomes, slats, flaps and thrust reversers” and eventually add avionics through partnerships, Garcia says.
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