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    Martinair's heavy maintenance checks to Finnair Technical Services

    FinnAir
    http://www.finnair.com/
    May 2 2005

    Finnair Technical Services and Dutch airline Martinair have signed
    an important maintenance contract, which covers the upcoming heavy
    maintenance checks for five Martinair's MD-11 cargo aircraft. The
    agreement contains an option for a sixth aircraft.

    The first maintenance event, lasting almost a month, has been scheduled
    to start 14 May. The three next maintenance checks have been planned
    for January, February and March 2006. The fifth aircraft is expected to
    come in for servicing in January 2007 and the sixth aircraft possibly
    at the end of that year.

    "According to Martinair's assessment, Finnair's offer was the most
    competitive when, in addition to the fixed price, quality, aircraft
    turnaround time and our reliability were taken into account," says
    Assistant Vice President Sari Kanerva from Finnair Technical Services.

    Martinair, founded in 1958, is a private airline company operating
    scheduled, charter and cargo traffic from Amsterdam's Schiphol
    Airport. The airline carries almost two million passengers annually
    to various Mediterranean destinations and it also has flights to
    Florida, Canada, the Caribbean and Far East holiday destinations.
    More than half of the company's revenues come from cargo traffic. In
    total the airline operates to approximately 100 destinations with
    its fleet of 19 aircraft.

    Of Finnair Technical Services's approximately 200 million euro
    turnover, one third comes from maintenance contracts with third-party
    customers the largest of which are Aeroflot and Lufthansa Cargo. Last
    summer a contract was signed for the maintenance support of four
    Aeroflot DC-10s. Finnair Technical Services has been providing
    maintenance support to Lufthansa Cargo's MD-11s for seven years
    already. This spring the company has received clients from even
    further east: Armenian Armavia Aircompany serviced one of its A320 at
    Finnair Technical Services in March and Chinense Xianjing Airlines'
    ATR 72 aircraft was undergoing heavy maintenance until mid-April.
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