Event Background

The engine, the single most valuable part of an aircraft, has its unique operational and asset life cycle, maintenance and overhaul of which not only makes up a key component of overall aircraft direct operational costs, but also a deciding factor for residual values of mid/end-of-life aircraft and engine assets to a large extent.

China has been acknowledged as the most promising civil aviation market with unprecedented potential of fleet growth as well as engine MRO demands. How to wisely dissect engine MRO and leasing trends and renovate engine fleet introduction and maintenance management strategy during current fleet transition phrase in a wake of growing dominance of OEMs in aftermarket, has become a fundermentally important subject facing airline operators and engine MROs around the globe.

This forum is designed to gather airlines, engine repair shops, engine lessors and engine assets managers together in China, to network and share industry knowledges of engine maintenance, leasing and asset management from strategical as well as practical perspectives.

Key Topics

1. Asia Pacific Commercial Aero Engine Fleet & MRO Market Overview

2. Engine Type Selection and Procurement Contract Management

3. Engine OEM Panel: Aftermarket Networks and the New Engine Landscape

4.Lessor’s Panel: Investing in Engine Assets

l  Factors influencing engine valuations 

l  Impacts of new engines production delays on current engines market 

l  How is engine leasing market evolving and diversifing?

l  Examine the liquidity and tradeability of wide-body engine types 

5. How will health monitoring technologies reshape engine aftermarket supply chains

Engine health monitoring technologies do not only monitor the engine’s operation status but also predict when the part will fail. This speech will examine how this new step-changing technologies will reshape the future engine MRO and parts support business.

6. OEM's influence in engine aftermarket

 
7. Engine MRO’s Panel - Costs, revenues and margins

This panel discussion session will invite engine MRO executives to illustrate cost structures, revenue distributions and margins, with a particular focus on key cost drivers, and its impacts on profitabilities in future.

8. Panel discussion: Managing spare engines requirements

What would be a reasonable spare engine ratio for new engines?

Pros and cons of including spare engines support in PBH programmes

Spare engine pooling: sounds cool but?

How to improve the utilizations of spare engines from a maintenance planning perspective?

9. Engine PBH contract managment

l  Why to select PBH program?

l  Different engine PBH models

l  Key reminders in PBH contract evaluation and negotiations

l  Practical issues in PBH-coverd engine fleet managment

10.Engine Tear-down & Parts Supply- Capitalizing on end-of-life engine assets

Target Audience

Airlines: Maintenance&Engineering/Planning and Development/Fleet and Engine Management/Financial/Aircraft Lease and Trading/

Engine MRO\Engine OEM\Engine Lessors\Engine Parts Suppliers\Engine Disassembly\Engine Asset Managers