Asia Digital Engineering (ADE), the engineering arm of Capital A recently opened a new Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) hangar facility in Senai, Johor Bahru. The 5,000 square metre hangar is built on 107.4 acres at Senai Airport’s Free Industrial Zone (SAFIZ). Interestingly this is the first MRO facility at the Senai International Airport Aviation Park and ADE’s third MRO facility in Malaysia.
Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, CEO of Capital A said: “We are proud that ADE marks a milestone today in disrupting and changing MRO services in a significant way, just like how AirAsia has disrupted and created a whole new market for travel more than 20 years ago. We owe a large part of AirAsia to the maintenance and high efficiency of ADE, and in turn, guarantee its fleet of work to ADE, which allows it to reduce costs for airlines, thus lowering fares for customers.”
Mahesh Kumar, CEO of ADE said: “The launch of this aircraft maintenance hangar in Senai is a great milestone for ADE to start the year with. We are proud of our contribution to the growth of the Malaysian maintenance aerospace sector, especially at strategic development zones like Johor.”
The new facility will provide component support, line maintenance and base maintenance for various aircraft models, like A320 and A330 aircraft with plans to grow their capacity in future.