Beja: MESA company will build hangar for aircraft maintenance at the airport.
The company MESA will build a hangar at Beja airport to aircraft maintenance, especially airline Hi Fly. Following private airline Hi Fly parking planes in Beja airport.
According to the website Mad Money, the Portuguese company MESA will build a hangar at Beja airport to aircraft maintenance, especially airline Hi Fly, that already use the infrastructure to park aircraft, it was announced today.In a statement sent to Lusa, ANA - Airports of Portugal states that signed with MESA a new hangar occupation license in the Beja airport where the company "will develop and expand its maintenance activity aircraft".
The construction of the hangar of MESA, which bills itself as "the leading private company maintenance, and engineering services to aircraft in Portugal ", expected to start in April 2018 and it is anticipated that the first phase of the project finished by the end of that year, le was not communicated.
Segundo a ANA, hangar will serve to maintain the base Airbus aircraft fleet air Hi Fly Company, belonging to the same MESA group and uses the Beja airport for about two years for parking and line maintenance of its aircraft, and aircraft of other airlines with maintenance contract with MESA. The investment of MESA provides "the construction of a new hangar, workshops and landscaping, with a total area of 9.500 square meters, a technical center with capacity for large aircraft, including models airbus A330, A340 e A350â€.
The development and expansion of MESA activity will also include "a new logistics center to support the activities plus maintenance", about 6.000 square meters, "Whose location will be decided in the coming months and may be in Lisbon, Palmela or Beja ", ANA advances.
ANA stresses that the construction of the hangar will allow MESA "enhance the sustained growth of the activity" of the Beja airport and "is of great relevance" to stimulate the aircraft maintenance industry, but also "for the region itself Beja, Alentejo", because it will contribute to "the creation of new skilled jobs in the region".
According to the administrator of the ANA Thierry Ligonnière, no statement quoted, "MESA project" is the goal, "the management company" to develop the Beja airport and its potential as a unit for activities upstream or downstream of aviation and airport activities ". The "materializes bet" ANA "in the implementation of industrial nature activities, including maintenance and dismantling of aircraft, in addition to the development of the medium-long term parking segment ", Thierry refers Ligonnière.
The chairman of the MESA board of directors and the Hi Fly, Paulo Mirpuri, no statement quoted, Beja considers "a prime location for the maintenance of aircraft". "With the addition of capacity" maintenance, through the new hangar in Beja airport, MESA expects "not only keep up with the strong growth of the Hi Fly fleet and capture new customers coming mainly from Europe and Africa", refers Paulo Mirpuri.
Source: Cash Money
