Rolls-Royce (RR.) has appointed Sanad Aerotech, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi state investment company Mubadala, to maintain hundreds of its Trent 700 engines in a $6.5bn (£5.16bn) deal.
The Trent 700 currently powers more than 800 Airbus A330 jets, flying with 83 operators worldwide. Sanad Aerotech will maintain 75 Trent 700 engines per year over nine years under the arrangement, according to a Bloomberg report.
The deal, which was announced at the Paris Air Show, will triple the number of Trent 700s Sanad Aerotech services annually at its facility based at Abu Dhabi International Airport, a Rolls-Royce statement said. “As several Trent 700 engines reach the end of their first lifecycle,” the deal will help Rolls-Royce in “ensuring aircraft availability and completing essential maintenance work for our customers in the Middle East region and beyond,” according to Dominic Horwood, chief customer officer in the Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace division.
