Madrid Mayoress Ana Botella visits Iberia maintenance installations
They visited the 53,000 sq.m. engine workshop, the maintenance hangar, and other workshops where they could learn about the technical work done there.
The Iberia engine workshop keeps not only Iberia aircraft engines in good repair but also those of many other airlines. Engines are dismantled by module, cleaned, inspected, repaired, and tested –the facility can conduct bench tests on engines of up to 100,000 lb. of thrust.
With 20,000 sq.m. of open, unobstructed space, Iberia’s maintenance hangar is one of Europe’s largest.
The maintenance facilities constitute one of Madrid largest workplaces, employing a total of nearly 4,000 engineers and specialist technicians.
At the spacious, modern and fully-equipped Iberia Maintenance installations they inspect and repair airframes, engines and components for Iberia Group airlines and about 100 outside clients, including British Airways, Continental, Atlasjet, Meridiana, and Cathay Pacific. It is the world’s 9th-largest aircraft maintenance company, and in 2011 it inspected some 200 engines and more than 66,000 components.
