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LHT adds VIP and Government Customers in the Americas Market
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A Lufthansa Technik completion concept called the Explorer turns an Airbus A330 into a globetrotting platform for a variety of unique experiences.  (Photo: Lufthansa Technik)
A Lufthansa Technik completion concept called the Explorer turns an Airbus A330 into a globetrotting platform for a variety of unique experiences. (Photo: Lufthansa Technik)

It might be thought that the U.S. market, which consists of two-thirds of the world’s business jets, would be important to Lufthansa Technik’s (LHT, booth 2881) VIP and special missions unit, but this is not the case. While it does offer VIP customers C-check capabilities at its factory in U.S. territory Puerto Rico, it does not have any VIP or maintenance shops in the continental U.S.

“It ought to be an important market for us, but the aircraft we normally outfit for service are more often serviced [by] U.S. [firms],” Wieland Timm v-p of sales told AIN. “Most of them have their own facilities; uniquely in the U.S., smaller outfits—’mom and pop shops’—offer services and repair capabilities.”