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According to the report, the company will be able to use around 63 thousand. 16 square meters, which can simultaneously accommodate 16 Airbus A319, A320 or Boeing 737 aircraft, otherwise aircraft with up to 180 passenger seats.
“To meet the demand for maintenance of aircraft that do not fly during the pandemic, we continue the cooperation with AviaticMRO, which we started last year. The company’s customers will be able to continue to use the entire area of our aircraft parking lots and we will also provide professional services of maintenance of parked aircraft ”, says Aurelija Kuezada, manager of the Šiauliai airport.
AviaticMRO chose Šiauliai Airport for aircraft parking in March last year, when COVID-19, which began to spread around the world from China, triggered a global pandemic and paralyzed aviation.
The director of the company Povilas Padaiga affirms that the Šiauliai airport will continue to operate both because of the long-term investment plans available here and because of the expected conditions.
“Everything has been included, from our plan and project to develop an aircraft hangar here, to price, quality and other parameters. We will see what next year will be like, but since we have rented all the seats, we will try to fill them all,” he plans the person in charge of AviaticMRO.
He hopes that, in an optimistic scenario, more movement could emerge in the flight sector already in the spring.
In the spring of 2020, the international travel industry analysis agency Cirium estimated that of around 26 thousand. a worldwide airliner pandemic forced nearly two-thirds, or 64 percent, of the total fleet to land. For their part, the supervisory authorities warn of the long-term impact of grounding on aircraft equipment and call for more attention to be paid to its maintenance.
According to the director of the Šiauliai airport, after managing the pandemic, the aviation sector will have a number of challenges both in ensuring the impeccable technical condition of the aircraft and in updating the skills of the pilots.
“The best we can do in this situation is to prepare to start with all our strength as soon as possible. Therefore, we are happy to live up to the expectations of a partner who has entrusted us with part of the fleet owned by the airlines, ”says A. Kuezada.
The owner of the airport, Šiauliai municipality, is almost 10 million. € 20 million was allocated for the improvement of the Šiauliai airport infrastructure and the strategic investment company AviaticMRO at the airport for € 20 million. intends to build 23 thousand. kv. Meters from the aircraft maintenance and repair center. It is expected to go online in 2022 and employ about 1,000 people. Professionals.
Currently, the Šiauliai airport has announced another nearly 15,000 free and investment-oriented. kv. Meters of land at auction for rent. The latter is scheduled for January 18. The initial annual rental price for this plot is 9.4 thousand. excluding value added tax (VAT).
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