MRO Memo: StandardAero And Lufthansa Technik Expanding Engine MRO In Canada

StandardAero and Lufthansa Technik are both expanding their engine MRO services in Canada, as evidence by news over the past week.

Lufthansa Technik Canada secured its second major customer for its engine MRO in Calgary. Flair Airlines signed a 15-year exclusive contract on Sept. 10 covering the Leap-1B engines powering its Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft and inducted two engines for quick-turn services. The contract also provisions for fleet expansion and provides a digital suite of Lufthansa Technik’s Digital Tech Ops Ecosystem, including Aviatar Condition Monitoring, Predictive Health Analytics and Engineering, as well as AMOS and flydocs digital records.

Lufthansa Technik Canada opened its interim eight-bay Leap-1B facility in Calgary in April and plans to open its purpose-built 150,000- ft.² facility in the first quarter of 2028. It first announced plans for that facility in February 2025, when it simultaneously signed a $3 billion, 15-year contract with WestJet for Leap-1B MRO.

Flair Airlines, based in Edmonton, also operates two 737-800s, according to Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery data.

StandardAero opened a 70,000- ft.² expansion of its engine aftermarket facility in Winnipeg, where the company was founded 115 years ago. The new space adds 40% additional capacity and opened Sept. 3, less than a year since the company broke ground on it in November 2025.

The expansion provides additional MRO support for the GE Aerospace CF34-3/8 and CFM International CFM56 engines. The CF34 powers a variety of business aviation and regional jets, including the Bombardier Challenger 600 and 850 family, as well as Embraer ERJ170/E175 and MHIRJ CRJ700 and CRJ900 regional jets. The CFM56 powers Boeing 737 NG and Airbus A320ceos, along with military variants.

StandardAero secured a 30-year license to support CFM Leap-1A and -1B engines in 2023 and completed its IPO in 2024 to make it a public company.