AMES (Joint-venture between Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Safran Nacelles) An essential player in aerostructure components repair and overhaul

Combined know-how in Dubai

AMES is a 50/50 joint venture of Safran Nacelles and Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance. It benefits from the two parent companies’ expertise and resources: AFI KLM E&M as a leading airline provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services; and Safran Nacelles’ know-how as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), delivering highly-effective, rapid-response aircraft maintenance solutions. 

AMES operates a state-of-the-art repair facility in Dubai’s Jebel Ali Free Zone. It leverages the extensive human, technical and logistics resources of its two parent companies, enabling AMES to offer a comprehensive portfolio of customizable, mix- and-match services. In addition to inspections, repairs and on-wing inspections, the company’s service portfolio covers the management of a pool of nacelle spare parts and assistance in optimizing maintenance schedules. 

With approvals from the GCAA, EASA and FAA airworthiness authorities, AMES organizes working parties that include inspection surveys for the development of tailored predictive maintenance programs to boost efficiency and shorten turn-around times (TATs). Local engineering repairs – plus spares pool access that features the leasing of parts and routine replacements – also increase the overhaul efficiency. As a result, AMES’ clients benefit from lower operating costs that contribute to their bottom line.

Center of Excellence for the A320neo Leap-1A nacelle

On the A320neo LEAP-1A nacelle, after already three years of experience in repairing all components of that nacelle, from inlet cowl to exhaust, AMES is now going a major step further by becoming a licensed A320neo LEAP-1A nacelle repair station of both its parent companies. AMES has now developed complex repair capabilities, including the replacement of major nacelle structural components (IFS, OFS, Beams,…) through the support of its parent companies.