Kuwait Airways has selected a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) solution from Swiss AviationSoftware (Swiss-AS) as it prepares for the arrival of new aircraft next year.
The carrier, one of the oldest airlines in the Middle East, selected Swiss’s AMOS as its single software solution to manage the operator’s technical requirements regarding aircraft and components. Kuwait Airways has Airbus A320neos and A350s arriving as of 2019 and wanted to prepare for the next phase of its fleet renewal, according to Swiss-AS. The airline “concluded that AMOS would provide an optimum support in this process,” it stated.
Kuwait Airways’ chairman Yousef A. Al-Jassem Al-Saqer stated: “Purchasing AMOS is the start point of next-generation Kuwait Airways, new aircraft are being phased in and now it’s time to implement a state-of-the-art MRO software. We have a strong team in place to support integrating AMOS into our business and look forward to working with Swiss-AS.”
Swiss-AS added that the airline had been pursuing two main objectives: Firstly, it was looking for a system capable of further improving its engineering and inventory service levels by implementing a state-of-the-art MRO system to enable a better utilisation of in-house resources; It also wanted to prepare for the next phase of its fleet renewal with the scheduled arrival of the A320neos and A350.
The “functional richness and advanced technology of AMOS,” paired with the experience of Swiss-AS and its proven track record of successful implementations, convinced the airline to select the M&E software. The national flag carrier is ready to replace its legacy systems in the M&E sector and adopt AMOS best practice processes, it continued.
“It is a great pleasure to have Kuwait Airways joining the AMOS Community. The high degree of integration of the modules, coupled with best-of-class processes, will surely further strengthen Kuwait Airlines position in the competitive Middle East market,” said Ronald Schaeuffele, CEO of Swiss-AS, a 100%-subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines.
AMOS will replace three legacy systems at the airline with historical data of many different aircraft types going back 20 years. This will make the data transfer sub-project “a challenging one with due regard to the complexity and criticality of the data migration process,” added the company.
Kuwait Airways currently operates a fleet of 28 aircraft, including A320, A330, B747 and B777s, and has a significant number of A350 and A320neo on order.
