GE Aviation has announced a 12-year TrueChoiceTM services agreement with China Southern Airlines for systems support across its Boeing 787 fleet. The agreement includes GE Aviation’s Avionics Systems content and capabilities, with the signing taking place at the China International Import Expo with Matt Dillhoff, general manager of Systems Global Services Sales for GE Aviation and Mr. Li Zhigang, Senior Vice President, Maintenance & Engineering Division, China Southern Airlines Company.
The agreement covers GE Aviation content including the Common Core System and will support all of China Southern Airlines’ fleet of 30 B787 aircraft, the last five of which will be delivered in 2020.
The program for the China Southern Airlines B787 fleet will provide an optimized solution for through-life support and includes repairs, stock holding, inventory management, program management, configuration control, engineering change control, technical documentation, obsolescence management and reliability trend analysis.
Building on the airline’s minimal B787 parts inventory, GE Aviation will guarantee just-in-time availability from its pool of B787 components to China Southern Airlines at its main base in Guangzhou and its outstations.