UAE-based aviation parts, service company sets up branch in Thailand

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UAE-based aviation parts, service company sets up branch in Thailand
SUCHAT SRITAMA
THE NATION
DUBAI


Abdullah K Al Suleimani

TWA to service military aircraft, plan for maintenance hub

BANGKOK: -- Transworld Aviation (TWA), a supplier of aircraft parts and service solutions based in Dubai, has set up business in Thailand to service military aircraft and aims to build a regional aircraft-maintenance centre in the Kingdom within five years.

It is the first aircraft-parts supplier from the Middle East to expand into Southeast Asia, after establishing branches in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Tanzania and the United States.

TWA chairman Abdullah Al Sulaimani said the joint venture TWA Thailand was established in Bangkok last year to prepare some fundamentals including staff recruitment and establishing a business network. The company plans to begin talks with additional target customers next year.

Chaimongkol Sukonthamat, a local investor and Thai-American national, holds 51 per cent of the JV while TWA has the remaining 49 per cent.

Sulaimani said Thailand had become an emerging market for aircraft maintenance not only for the military, small aircraft and private jets but also for commercial planes.

The group aims to develop Thailand as a new maintenance and after sales-service base. Next year, it will approach more military and other government bodies for aircraft maintenance, engine service, and mechanical upgrades, as well as to offering new technology for small aircraft to improve their efficiency.

"Within five years, we should have a big maintenance centre in Southeast Asia. Our strength is providing OEM [original equipment manufacturing] parts and expertise. We [have stocks] that can be delivered to customers within 48 hours," he said.

An aviation expert said the TWA group aimed at income of Bt1 billion in 2015 from the Thai centre, the first year of operation. That figure is expected to jump in 2016.Southeast Asia has aircraft-maintenance centres in Singapore and Malaysia. In Thailand, Thai Aviation Industries maintains the government's aircraft, while Thai Airways International does its own work. Airbus recently announced that it would set up Flight Operations Services in Thailand to produce standard travel manuals and documentation for aviation.

TWA was established in Britain and moved to Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai in 1994. It has become the leading distributor of aircraft parts, consumables and chemicals, along with repair, modification and overhaul management.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/UAE-based-aviation-parts-service-company-sets-up-b-30249893.html


-- The Nation 2014-12-16

[tomyummer]

Maybe they can service helicopters too?

[IsaanUSA]

Maybe they can service helicopters too?

I dont know anything about aviation, but their website says helicopters. "We support an array of products manufactured by the OEMs listed below, for everything from General Aviation to Helicopters and Rotorcrafts." http://www.twa-dubai.com/index.php/products/parts-a-components.html

[chainarong]

Not to put to fine a line on it I think I will keep to the true and tried path of maintenance by Either Boeing or Airbus for my push bike.

[Commerce]

The words Thailand and aircraft maintenence don't seem to hold solid foundations when linked together. Thailand doesn't even have car MOTs or coach/bus/lorry maintenence - and any kind of engineer has been taught to botch it or pretend the problem doesn't exist.

Buddha help us!!

[jaywalker]

This should be rich.

I was working with the UAE Army in 1998 & they had aspirations to join NATO.

We were giving their "bright" young officers a class on how to classify everything military to a standard parts system, and how it all must be cataloged, which should be pretty simple, given that pretty much everything their military has comes from a NATO country.

At the end of a 2 hour lecture, a young UAE Army captain, says, "Now, I do not understand. Why must we use catalogs?"

Add that to Thainess & well...

Oh yeah, I once went to Abu Dhabi to do a 1 month training course, which some Colonel got stretched to 2 months. No problem. I stayed another month.

At the end of I needed a signature & the colonel wouldn't touch it. I had to go chase a Brigadier General all over town, one who had no I dea what I was talking about, have tea with him, and he eventually signed it.

WHEW!

Edited December 16, 2014 by jaywalker