Maintenance and Modifications
A380 Operators Ease Spares Headaches Through Outsourcing
Spairliners is helping A380 operators to spread the cost of component support
A380 operators can draw on parts from Spairliners’s stocks around the world.
A380 operators can draw on parts from Spairliners’s stocks around the world.

Whatever other problems Qantas may have had as an early operator of the Airbus A380, it appears to be benefitting from a new approach to the potentially vexed task of managing spare parts supply. The Australian flag carrier has entrusted administration of its parts cache to Spairliners, the joint venture between Lufthansa Technik and Air France, in a move that has reduced its capital outlay on A380 components while giving it access to spares locally at costs directly proportional to actual fleet utilization.