Bombardier Services Corporation and PSA Airlines recently signed a three-year extension to their heavy maintenance agreement covering the regional airline’s fleet of CRJ aircraft.
Under the contract, maintenance tasks for the carrier’s CRJ200, CRJ700 and CRJ900 aircraft will be performed at Bombardier’s West Virginia Air Centre. Bombardier has conducted heavy maintenance for PSA Airlines for 13 years.
PSA Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group, operates a fleet comprised exclusively of 126 CRJ regional jets under the American Eagle regional brand.
“PSA has seen tremendous growth over the past four years. We have tripled the size of our fleet and are well underway to our planned fleet of 150 CRJ aircraft. Our confidence in the West Virginia Air Centre simplified our decision to extend our partnership,” said Gary Pratt, vice-president, maintenance and engineering at PSA. Bombardier’s expertise and dedicated support in maintaining our fleet of CRJ aircraft provides us with significant value as we work to exceed safety and reliability expectations of our partners, employees, and customers.”
“We are very proud of this new agreement with PSA Airlines and thank the airline for once again selecting Bombardier to provide heavy maintenance for its fleet,” said Todd Young, vice-president and general manager, customer services at Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. “This vote of confidence in the service that we are providing underscores the value that our customers are receiving via the Bombardier FlightAdvantage – the portfolio under which we are delivering maintenance, material, support and training services to support the global fleet of Bombardier commercial aircraft.”
[Photo: A CRJ00 in American Eagle livery.]
