Monarch Aircraft Engineering secures line maintenance contract for Hainan Airlines

Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) announced a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Hainan Airlines. The agreement, which commenced on 3rd July 2015 is to provide call out support to the Chinese operator’s flying program into Birmingham Airport this summer. Hainan Airlines, headquartered in Haikou, People’s Republic of China will operate twice weekly flights on a Boeing 767-300 aircraft, with 223 seats – 34 in the business cabin and 199 in economy. The flights will operate from Beijing to Birmingham each Friday and Monday to the end of August 2015.