- 12th April 2012 -
Pressrelease: Air Maintenance Estonia Strengthens the Management and is expanding
On April 2, 2012, Air Maintenance Estonia AS (AME) appointed David Williams as Managing Director / CEO succeeding Lars-Olof Bolinder who will continue in AME as a Supervisory Board member. David Williams has more than 38 years of experience in the Aviation Maintenance industry, holding managerial positions in SAS Technical Services, Emirates (airline) and Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies. I am looking forward to being part of Air Maintenance Estonia, with all the exciting developments that are happening in the company and Tallinn Airport. With the building of the new hangar we have a great chance to develop AME into being a leading aircraft maintenance services provider in Northern Europe.
Based at Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, Air Maintenance Estonia – AME - is now in the process of a major expansion of its capabilities.
- From August 2012, AME will have a new three-bay hangar for Base Maintenance works of narrow-body aircraft, says AME’s newly appointed CEO David Williams. In total we will have three main Base Maintenance lines, and two additional lines for lighter checks and modification works.
- We have added the Airbus 320 family to our Base Maintenance capability list in addition to Boeing 737 Classic and 737 NG. As for Line Maintenance, AME is certified for the A320 family as well as B737 Classic & NG, Embraer ERJ-170/190, CRJ-900NG, Fokker 50 and SAAB 340.
- At AME we define our potential geographical market as being within some two hours ferry flight time from our location at Tallinn Airport. This means that in addition to the Baltic and Nordic markets, we also cover Northern Europe, U.K, as well as a great part of Central Europe and Western Russia.
AME’s market-driven expansion goes hand-in-hand with Estonia’s equally solid development on the international markets. Being an EU member since 2004 and part of the Eurozone since 2011, Estonia’s GDP growth is among the highest and its foreign debt among the lowest in the EU. Simultaneously with the downgrading of the US credit rating last summer, the rating agency Standard & Poor’s upgraded Estonia to an AA- level, placing the country in the second best so called high grade global rating. In May this year, AME will celebrate its 10-year anniversary.
Ongoing building process of our new hangar (picture taken by Marat Manejev)
- 27th February 2012 -
Air Maintenance Estonia has been granted with Embraer-170 and Embraer-190 series aircraft Line Maintenance capability approval by Estonian CAA. Air Maintenance Estonia will support E-170/E-190 operation of the national flag carrier - Estonian Air.
- 29th August 2011 -
Air Maintenance Estonia expands its capabilities based at Tallinn Airport, the Estonian MRO Air Maintenance Estonia – AME, is now in the process of a major expansion of its capabilities. You can see the formal press release (in PDF format) by clicking HERE.
- 14th June 2011 -
Today was an important day in Air Maintenance Estonia's history as the construction agreement for our new hangar was finally signed between Estonia's largest construction company MERKO and Tallinn Airport. Simultaneously AME and Tallinn Airport signed a 30-year rental agreement for the new hangar.
According to the agreement, hangar has to be ready on the 15th of June 2012, i.e. in 12 months.
- 1st June 2011 -
Braathens Technical and Air Maintenance Estonia have signed Component Maintenance Service Agreement. Two parties will now cooperate to maintain Avro RJ fleet components such as: Main and Nose Wheels service including overhaul and Carbon Brakes service including overhaul.
- 24th May 2011 -
Today, on 24th May 2011, Air Maintenance Estonia AS is happy to announce the conclusion of Maintenance Support Agreement for Tallinn Airport with leading european airline – EasyJet. Air Maintenance Estonia AS has performed B-737NG aircraft base maintenance for EasyJet for the past several years.Now, having A320-series aircraft maintenance capability, AME will support EasyJet with this type of aircraft.
- 15th April 2011 -
Air Maintenance Estonia is proud to announce that SmartLynx, the largest operator of A320 type of aircraft in Baltic states, and Air Maintenance Estonia have concluded Line Maintenance agreement. Under this agreement AME will provide its Line Maintenance services for SmartLynx in Tallinn airport.
- 8th April 2011 -
Smartlynx Airlines and Air Maintenance Estonia signed Component Maintenance Service Agreement. Two parties will now cooperate to maintain SmartLynx Airbus 320 fleet components such as: Main and Nose Wheels service including overhaul; Steel and Carbon Brakes service including overhaul; Battery service including overhaul; Non-Destructive testing on various components; Oxygen refilling (Oxygen as per MIL-PRF-27210).
- 30th March 2011 -
Air Maintenance Estonia has been granted with Airbus-320 series aircraft Line Maintenance capability approval by Estonian CAA. AME has started A320 project in August-2010 and in less than a year time has achieved its goal. AME will continue its work on preparation to the base maintenance capability on A320-series with aim to be ready when new, state of the art, aircraft maintenance hangar will be ready by mid-2012.
- 18th March 2011 -
SAS and Air Maintenance Estonia are continuing their many years fruitful and tight cooperation by prolongation for another 5 years of the Aircraft Maintenance Contract under which AME will perform heavy base maintenance on SAS fleet of B737 aircraft.
- 1st March 2011 -
Austrian Airlines, the national carrier of Austria and the member of a Star Alliance, and Air Maintenance Estonia have concluded General Terms Agreement between two companies. By this agreement AME will perform base maintenance on Austrian Airlines fleet of B737-NG series aircraft. AME is very pleased that its high expertise and quality in B737-NG maintenance has been appreciated by such a valuable customer as Austrian Airlines.
- 24th January 2011 -
Air Maintenance Estonia has started to provide Line Maintenance services to the national carrier of Estonia, Estonian Air, for Estonian Air brand new aircraft CRJ-900NextGen.
AME projects supported by Enterprise Estonia
Enterprise Estonia has supported Air Maintenance Estonia with the following projects:
- Mapping AME’s core business/activities for implementing new business software – 29.03.2010 – 16.04.2010
- Implementing new business software Microsoft Dynamics AX – 08.06.2010 – 30.01.2011
- Two Airbus320 theoretical trainings – 02.08.2010–05.11.2010 and 01.11.2010 – 15.12.2010
- Two Airbus320 practical trainings – 08.11.2010 – 19.11.2010 and 23.11.2010 – 12.12.2010
These projects were supported by Euroopa Sotsiaalfond for skills and knowledge development.
In addition, during the period of 01.04.2011 – 31.03.2012, Enterprise Estonia will also support a project for AME’s expansion process. Project was co-financed by Euroopa Regionaalarengu Fond for Industrial enterprise technology investment support.
First 12-Years Check Completed on Boeing-737-NG aircraft
Air Maintenance Estonia (AME) has successfully completed its first 12-Years check on Boeing-737-700 operated by Cimber-Sterling Airlines, Denmark, - the long time customer of AME and one of the very first B737NG operators in Europe. The check has been completed within quoted down-time and within the budget. Air Maintenance Estonia AS, a leading Base Maintenance provider of B737NG series aircraft in Northern Europe including Scandinavia, has once more proved its highest expertise and quality in supporting of its customers.
Ownership change in Air Maintenance Estonia
2010 has been a year of changes for Air Maintenance Estonia. After successful negotiations with the company owners SAS Tech AB the ownership of Air Maintenance Estonia AS was transferred to the leading Baltic private equity company BaltCap OÜ. This process will not evoke any changes in overall organization.
Job Analyses of Technical Personal supported by Enterprise Estonia.
Project was held from August 3rd 2009 till November 23rd 2009.
Project was supported with 125,000. Estonian Crowns.
New line station in Vilnius airport
AME opened a line station in Vilnius airport, Lithuania at the end of June to support start-up Lithuanian airline Star1 that will fly both scheduled and charter flights on B737-700 aircraft.
- 3rd April 2009 -
AME was honored by the Board of Estonian Transport and Road Workers Trade Union with the title of Best Employer in the Aviation Sector of 2008. The ceremony was held in Estonian National Library where Lars-Olof Bolinder, Managing Director of AME, accepted the award from the Chairman of the Board of Estonian Transport and Road Workers Trade Union, Peep Peterson. Majority of AME mechanics are members of the named Union. AME management and the Union have a good cooperation, which can be proved by the fact that AME Union was behind the nomination.
AME Football team
AME Football team came together on year 2004. The team trains on a stadium near the airport once a week, despite the weather, usually with 12-15 AME employees from all departments and Logistics Manager, Jevgeni, as the team captain. The team has had much success, winning SAS football tournaments in Mallorca, Uppsala and in Tallinn in 2005 - 2006 years and coming 2nd in October 2007 again in Mallorca. World Aviation Tournament Madeira Cup in May 2007 brought 3rd place. Next World Aviation Tournament was held in Ofir Portugal in April 2008 where 11 football teams from all over the world came together to compete with each other. In a final game Croatian team took a very close 3:4 win over AME, leaving AME with the respectable II place.