Etihad Airways opens line maintenance base at Singapore’s Changi International Airport

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has opened a line maintenance base at Singapore’s Changi International Airport, the carrier’s eighth outside Abu Dhabi. Equipped with the latest technology, the new facility will perform all scheduled and non-scheduled line maintenance for Etihad Airways’ daily flights operating to Singapore from both Abu Dhabi and Brisbane. This includes transit, daily and weekly checks, scheduled engineering services, and fault repairs for aircraft systems and cabin issues. From its UAE hub, Etihad Airways operates daily return flights to Singapore and onwards to state capital of Queensland, Australia. Etihad Airways is deploying a team of Abu Dhabi-trained line maintenance aircraft engineers to be based at the new Singapore facility. The airline’s existing line maintenance facilities are in Dublin, Chicago, Lahore, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Melbourne and Sydney.