Luxembourg is the maintenance base for the Cargolux fleet. We currently use a twin bay narrow body hangar on the north side of the airport, but will shortly be moving into a twin wide body hangar, newly constructed, on the South side of the airport. Since the outset of Cargolux Airlines we have had a full complement of Support Shops. These are located centrally around the maintenance hangars, which is convenient for the line and hangar support. Shop capability includes dedicated component work and general fleet maintenance support as specialized well-equipped emergency back up for line and hangar operations. A new hangar is due to be completed in July 2009. This is designed to accommodate two B747 or A380 aircraft, nose in. A business plan is imminent to support our fleet with B747-400 and B747-8 C Check maintenance. Our most valuable resource is our skilled and conscientious maintenance workforce. At present we have 220 direct maintenance staff working in the line, hangar and shop environments. The remaining 151 staff comprise of engineers, material management, shipping receiving, Technical records people who support the maintenance operation. The prominence of technical expertise among our staff is credited to our policy of carefully selecting employees from the industry, and maintaining an in-house apprenticeship program for the development of our future workforce. The apprentice program ensures that young dynamic students are able to achieve their ambitions within the Aeronautical Engineering field. To learn more about this program contact HR (link). TRAX. A new state of the art fully integrated computer system within M&E provides invaluable management of our product. Every action and transaction is carefully performed with full transparency to ensure quality and accuracy. All information from man-hours to stock levels is instantly available to our managers and technical experts, to enable precise execution, analysis and follow-up.
ACARS system allows the maintenance department to be in constant contact with each aircraft.
AIMS provides the flight schedules and information required to optimize our maintenance event planning. ensures up-to-date information and reference. Boeing PMA, MyBoeingFleet.com,