Eastern European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has renewed two eight-year MRO contracts with Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International (LTMI) and Lufthansa Technik Budapest (LTB) for line maintenance services on its fleets based in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.

Under the agreements, LTMI and LTB will provide a single point of contact for all line maintenance issues, preventive maintenance and performance monitoring of the fleet.

Wizz Air recently opened maintenance hangar in Budapest. The contract will support up to 100 jobs in the region.

Wizz Air is the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe. It operates a fleet of 64 Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft, offers more than 390 routes from 22 bases, and transports 16.5 million passengers, according to figures released for its financial year ended March 31, 2015.

Source: ATW