Ethiopian Airlines Engine Maintenance

Overview of Ethiopian MRO

Ethiopian MRO is one of the seven business entities in Ethiopian airlines group owned by Ethiopian government. It is a world class MRO and one of the leading maintenance providers in Africa and in the middle east. It’s head quarter is located in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa bole international airport.

Ethiopian MRO Services is a division of Ethiopian and is established in 1957 to provide MRO services for aircraft, engines and components of Ethiopian and third party customers. The primary base of Ethiopian is at Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Ethiopian MRO has Six main hangars used for airframe maintenance. A closed-door hangar to accommodate one B767/787/777, a closed door hangar to accommodate two B767/787s or four B737 size airplanes at the same time. The third hangar is open-door and can accommodate three B737 size airplanes and the fourth is an open door hangar that accommodates two Q400s.

There are two warehouses for over 100,000 line items. The first is dedicated for aircraft parts whereas the second is used for commercial and bulk items.

Ethiopian MRO is utilizing “Maintenix”, a state of the art MRO management IT system also Selected by Boeing for Gold-care program.

The values of Ethiopian MRO focus on the following four exceptional customer satisfaction.

       1. Top quality

       2. Short turnaround time

       3. Highly competitive Price

       4. Excellent customer service

Ethiopian MRO setup its own Comprehensive aircraft, engines and components maintenance services in 1957. At present it has work force of over 3,000 fully technical staff and a facility certified by competent regulatory bodies like ETCAA, FAA ,EASA and other Middle east and African Civil Aviation Authorities. ET MRO has gained a distinguished reputation for its high standard and excellent safety record over the years. Ethiopian MRO extends its services to international airlines and has the resources required to perform the major jobs like:

  • Airframe Maintenance (A/C base and Line maintenance)
  • Engine Maintenance
  • Component Maintenance
  • Engineering Modification and upgrades

Ethiopian MRO gives total care and other supports for third party customers like ASKY Airlines, Malawian, Tchadia airlines, Rwandair, Jambojet, Zambia Airways.

Ethiopian MRO gives line maintenance support to Ethiopian airlines and other third party operators at its home base and other out stations. Third party customers include Emirates, Fly Dubai, Egypt air, Qatar air ways, Astral Aviation.

ET-MRO has competitive advantage which we can capitalize as below:

  • Large MRO backed up by one of the best Airlines in Africa and the world
  • Knowledge base and rich experience
  • Highly skilled, safety-focused and committed staff
  • Low labour cost base
  • Quality and dependable service
  • Access to a significant number of the spares pool
  • Convenient geographical location
  • Convenient Environment
  • Good hospitality and working culture
  • One-stop shopping – range of airframe, engine & APU and Landing Gear in-house maintenance capability with an approved training facility