Airbus in late September inaugurated its first cabin electronics service center for the Middle East and Africa. The move comes as part of its drive to further expand its presence in the region and bring technical support closer to its customers. The new facility, which is located at the the Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority, is the European OEM’s fourth center providing repair and spare part services for cabin components and systems after Buxtehude near Hamburg, Germany, Beijing and Dallas. It is also offering customer onsite technical services such as cabin system training.
“As we have an extensive range of airline and freight customers operating Airbus aircraft in the Middle East and Africa region, Dubai will be an important strategic addition to these key locations for our customer base,” Mikail Houari, president of Airbus Africa and Middle East, told AIN. Airbus is performing “extremely well” in the Middle East with airlines of different sizes and stages in their development using the airframer’s equipment, he said, pointing out that more than 740 Airbus aircraft operate in the region and “over the next decade, we have already signed orders for more than 1,400 aircraft that will land in the fleets of Middle Eastern carriers.”
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