PARIS – TARMAC Aerosave, a French aircraft transition center specializing in storage, maintenance, and recycling, has recently achieved a significant milestone by returning its 1,000th aircraft to service. This news was shared at the Paris Air Show, where the group announced expansion plans for its three European sites. To support this growth, the company aims to hire a hundred mechanics and technicians in 2023.
Since its establishment in 2007, TARMAC Aerosave has handled 1,500 aircraft, successfully managing the entire aircraft lifecycle. Initially focused on recycling, the company quickly expanded its services to include storage for varying lengths of time and transition and maintenance services.
Out of the total aircraft stored at its Tarbes, Teruel, and Toulouse sites, approximately 85% have been reactivated through operations known as «Return to Service» (RTS).
With the resurgence of air transport demand in 2021/2022, requests for re-deliveries initially revolved around regional and medium-haul aircraft. However, since the end of 2022, the rate of returns to service has significantly increased, now encompassing all types of aircraft, including wide-body ones. To illustrate, TARMAC Aerosave has released eight Airbus A380s since 2022 and is gearing up to reactivate five more by the end of the year.
As the maintenance work and the pace of storage, transition, and redelivery accelerate, the company needs to expand its workforce across all three sites in France and Spain. After welcoming over 90 new employees in 2022, TARMAC Aerosave is set to continue its recruitment campaign, with 100 positions for mechanics, technicians, and logisticians to be filled in 2023.
Alexandre Brun, Chairman of TARMAC Aerosave, highlighted the company’s ambition to meet the growth challenge and the recovery of the aviation sector. He emphasized the company’s need to increase its workforce from 500 to 600 in 2023, due to an upswing in requests for transition, re-commissioning, and site expansion.
