Asia's Largest Aviation Maintenance Event Focuses On Reducing Costs, Outsourcing, and Global Best Practices

Asia's Largest Aviation Maintenance Event Focuses On Reducing Costs, Outsourcing, and Global Best Practices

July 27, 2006

MRO Asia 2006, September 19 - 21 in Xiamen, China

    NEW YORK, July 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Aircraft
safety and management strategies for maintaining aircraft
in a growing Asian aviation market -- issues that affect
airlines, OEMs, suppliers, service providers and the
military -- will be the focus of discussions and displays
during AVIATION WEEK'S MRO Asia Conference &
Exhibition, September 19-21 in Xiamen, China.

    MRO Asia is the largest conference and exhibition in
the region dedicated to the aircraft maintenance, repair
and overhaul (MRO) market, and brings together more than
1,000 global leaders in aviation maintenance from airlines
and the government/military sectors who serve the industry.

 
    In addition to a sold out exhibition hall with more
than 60 companies displaying the latest services and
technologies, the conference will offer educational and
informative sessions with over 25 speakers addressing: 

    --  Outsourcing or In House - Chinese Airlines
Maintenance 

    --  Outsourcing - Influencing the Airlines Decision 

    --  Cargo Conversion 
 
    --  Lower Wages 

    --  Joint Ventures 

    "Within the next ten years the MRO industry in
Asia is expected to reach $12.2 billion, accounting for 24%
of the global market, but the challenge today for MRO
executives is create strategies to manage growth and reduce
cost while maintaining profitability and quality," said
Tom Henricks, President of AVIATION WEEK.  "Industry
executives, their suppliers and customers attending this
year's MRO Asia Conference & Exhibition will find a
comprehensive one-stop business environment that will help
them manage the extraordinary challenges of today's rapidly
changing MRO marketplace, and help them plan for
tomorrow."

    Additional information and online registration for MRO
Asia is available at http://www.aviationnow.com/conferences
or by calling [phone] (U.S. & Canada only) or +1
212 904 6344.

    Airlines attending MRO Asia include: Air China, Air
China Cargo, Changan Airlines, China Cargo, China Eastern
Airlines, China Eastern Airlines Jiangsu Co., China Eastern
Airlines Northwest Co., China Eastern Airlines Wuhan Co.,
China Postal Airlines, China Southern Airlines, China
Southern Airlines Group Hainan Co., China Southern Airlines
Northern Co., China Southern Airlines Shantou Co., China
United Airlines, China Xinhua Airlines, Deer Jet, East Star
Airlines, Greatwall Airlines, Guangxi Airlines, Guizhou
Airlines, Hainan Airlines, JADE Cargo International, OK
Airlines, Rainbow Jet, Shandong Airlines, Shanghai
Airlines, Shanxi Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Sichuan
Airlines, Spring Airlines, United Eagle Airlines, Xiamen
Airlines, Yangtze River Express Airlines, Zhuhai Airlines.

    MRO Asia is produced by Aviation Week Conferences &
Exhibitions in association with Civil Aviation
Administration of China - CAAC, China Aviation Supplies
Imp. & Exp. Group Corp. (CASGC), International,
Aviation Group (IAG), and Overhaul & Maintenance
magazine.  Gold sponsors are Boeing Commercial Airplanes,
Pratt & Whitney, and United Services.  Silver sponsors
are Goodrich, Honeywell, and Sargent/Avborne.  Bronze
sponsors are Airbus and HEICO Corp.  MRO Asia is supported
by Xiamen Aviation Industry Co. Ltd. (XAICO), Beijing
Kailan Aviation Technology Co. Ltd/IAG's MRO China. 
Airline support is from Air China, JetBlue Airways and
Quantas Airways and Xiamen Airlines.

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