New revenue stream for GMAA1 Jun 2018 10:05
This looks like a large slug of work coming GMAA's way due to the need for regulatory compliance in installing Automatic Dependant Surveillance Broadcast technology:
Http://aviationweek.com/ebace-2018/mros-dealers-and-brokers-warn-ads-b-logjam
"MROs, Dealers And Brokers Warn Of ADS-B Logjam
May 30, 2018
Gama Aviation is the latest company to add its voice to the growing chorus of concern that the business-aviation community is flirting with disaster if it continues to ignore the implications of the U.S.�s 2020 deadline for ADS-B conversion/installation.
Duncan Daines, the chief marketing officer for Gama�s Oxford Airport-based London ground MRO unit, warns that operators face increased costs or having their jets grounded if they do not get the work scheduled soon. Experts note there are more aircraft remaining to be outfitted than there are MRO slots available before the deadline.
Failure to comply will result in jets being unable to fly in most classes of North American airspace, limiting their utility so extensively it will effectively mean they are grounded.
�We don�t think operators are taking the 2020 ADS-B mandate as seriously they should,� Daines says. �Exactly the same is happening in the U.S: it�s delay, delay, delay.
�This is a mandate that we do not believe is going to change. Operators need to take action now.�
Clearly, for a company such as Gama, which will fit Honeywell-supplied equipment, there is an obvious business interest in heightening a perceived sense of urgency.
�It does, as an MRO, provide us with a potentially useful market,� Daines says. Yet Daines�s warning cannot be dismissed as an attempt to drum up business through instilling fear or panic. It is, he argues, the product of how many jets the company knows need to have the work done, how few have so far been booked in for the necessary upgrade, and how long conversion takes to carry out.
�There are too many aircraft, not enough maintenance slots, not enough engineers, and not enough parts. It just puts pressure on the system, and when you put pressure on the system, prices go up.
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