Saudi Arabian low-cost airline, flyadeal, is set to significantly advance its technical operations through an expanded partnership with Lufthansa Technik.

The Jeddah-based airline has signed a five-year contract extension for Aircraft Engineering Services and chosen the AMOS Airline Edition and AMOScloud, operated by Swiss-AS, as its new maintenance and engineering (M&E) software solutions.

Flyadeal says the collaboration positions it to achieve greater operational excellence and productivity. By adopting the AMOS software package, the airline aims to centralise and streamline its maintenance operations, utilising data-driven insights to enhance efficiency, ensure compliance, and foster innovation in aircraft maintenance practices.

Lufthansa Technik will continue to support flyadeal with comprehensive engineering solutions. This includes maintenance programmes, lifetime status tracking, and in-depth reliability analysis of the entire fleet, all facilitated through the AMOS platform and cloud services. The extended cooperation marks a significant milestone for both companies, setting new standards for efficiency and innovation in the aviation industry.

Ahmed Bakadam, flyadeal’s director of engineering and maintenance, said: “flyadeal is delighted to strengthen our partnership with Lufthansa Technic on the engineering and maintenance side, and begin working with Swiss-AS to enhance the digitalisation of our technical operations.

“This is a major step towards optimising flyadeal’s maintenance activities through digital platforms ensuring greater operational efficiency and lower operational costs.”

Philip Mende, vice president of digital fleet solutions at Lufthansa Technik, said: “We are grateful for flyadeal’s continued trust in the expertise of Lufthansa Technik.

“Our Digital Tech Ops Ecosystem is playing a key role in shaping digital transformation in the technical operation of aircraft.

“While AMOS delivers great and increasing value individually, the combination of all digital solutions within our ecosystem further provides additional benefits for our partners.”

Frank Martens, senior director of sales AVIATAR, Aircraft Engineering Services and Digital Products, said: “We are pleased to continue to support flyadeal with our Aircraft Engineering Services. We focus on the technical optimization of the fleet based on a continuous, safety-oriented and closed-loop monitoring system. Our partner benefits from our specialization in providing technical services in AMOS by using a cost-efficient global production system enhanced with digital, intelligent workflows and provide data-driven recommendations for corrective actions as well as follow-up and feedback for continuous monitoring.”

Above picture: Back row (from left to right) – Marco Niederkleine (head of key account and customer fleet management, Aircraft Engineering Services Lufthansa Technik), Kai Roepke (vice president corporate sales EMEA Lufthansa Technik), Steven Greenway (chief executive flyadeal), Tim Butzmann (senior director corporate sales Middle East & Africa Lufthansa Technik), Frank Martens (senior director Sales AVIATAR, Aircraft Engineering Services and digital products Lufthansa Technik) / Front row (from left to right) – Chris Clements (senior sales representative Swiss Aviation Software), Ali Alzahrani (senior manager engineering and planning flyadeal), Ahmed Bakadam (director of maintenance and engineering flyadeal), Harald Gloy (chief operations and HR officer Lufthansa Technik)