Cabin Interior and Electronics
LHT weathers recession in good form
While most of the completion and refurbishment industry was taking it on the chin during the recession of the past 18 months, Lufthansa Technik was taking

While most of the completion and refurbishment industry was taking it on the chin during the recession of the past 18 months, Lufthansa Technik was taking it with barely a shrug, according to the German company’s senior vice president of marketing and sales Walter Heerdt. “We felt it, but not too much,” he told AIN. “We had a pretty good backlog, and we have been very successful in selling in 2009.”

But that success was based on taking in at the front end only what the Hamburg MRO and completion and refurbishment center could turn out at the other end on spec and on time.