African carrier also plans to upscale and retool its technical department.

Etihad Airways Engineering, the maintenance division of the Abu-Dhabi based airline group, has signed a contract with Kenya Airways to carry out mandatory checks on its Boeing 787-8 fleet.

The first of six scheduled Boeing 787 C-checks will begin this month at its facility in the UAE, with the final check scheduled for October 2017.

During the heavy maintenance checks, Kenya is also planning a number of product and reliability improvement modifications to systems and components.

Martyn Haines, technical director at Kenya Airways, said: "We will use this opportunity to upscale and retool some of our technical department, who will be onsite to provide oversight of all work being done.

Haines also said that the agreement also opens up some other collaborative opportunities including training programs.

“We have an ongoing maintenance programme of small and large checks across our other fleets, with all of these scheduled for completion within our maintenance facility,” he added.

|  An MRO Network release  |  February 22, 2017  ||