ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES inks agreement with Boeing for B787 landing gear exchange programme

At the Dubai Air Show, Boeing signed a MoU with Ethiopian Airlines that will help it get Boeing’s 787 landing gear exchange programme. “As the fastest growing airline in Africa, our success depends on our ability to seek out new ways to drive operational efficiency,” says Tewolde GebreMariam, Group Chief Executive Officer, Ethiopian Airlines. With the exchange programme, Boeing will guarantee availability of 29 landing gear shipsets wherever and whenever they are needed to support the Ethiopian 787 fleet, thus enabling cost-effective maintenance operations. The Boeing 787 programme simplifies the contracting, scheduling and management of the process. Now air carriers can exchange landing gears that need to be repaired or overhauled with a replacement from a resource pool maintained by Boeing.