GMF AeroAsia

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GMF AeroAsia

Type	Subsidiary^[1]
Genre	Airplane Maintenance
Founded	1984
Founder	PT Garuda Indonesia
Headquarters	Jakarta, Indonesia Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
No. of locations	1
Key people	Richard B. Sukadarisman, Commissioner Hadinoto Soedigno, Chief Executive Officer 11 Vice Presidents^[2]
Industry	Aviation
Services	Base and Heavy Maintenance, Cargo Conversion, Engine Maintenance, Component Maintenance, Line Maintenance, Engineering Services, and Trade and Asset Management^[3]
Employees	About 2,500
Parent	PT Garuda Indonesia
Website	http://www.gmf-aeroasia.co.id/ (English)

GMF AeroAsia is an international company that employs 2,500 employees based in Jakarta, Indonesia^[1]. It services airplanes of many types.

1 History
- 1.1 Before 2000
- 1.2 After 2000
2 Facilities
3 Customers
- 3.1 Worldwide
- 3.2 Domestic
4 Certification
5 References

[edit] History

[edit] Before 2000

The company was established in 1984 as Garuda Maintenance Facilities Support Center. In seven years, funded entirely by the Indonesian government, it had spent US$200 million, of which 63% was used to import hi-tech machinery and equipment. In 1996, it became a SBU changing its name to Garuda Maintenance Facilities AeroAsia, or GMF AeroAsia in short.

[edit] After 2000

In August 2002, it split off from PT Garuda Indonesia.^[4]

In 2003, Singapore Airlines acquired a 49% stake in GMF AeroAsia.^[5]^{[verification needed]}

In January 2007, PT Garuda Indonesia announced it would sell a minority stake of GMF AeroAsia in April 2007. Other subsidiaries, PT Aerowisata, PT Abacus Distribution System and PT Gapura Angkasa would be sold completely as Garuda Indonesia does not consider them as "core business".^[6]. GMF AeroAsia has recently concluded a restructuring as part of the company's strategic development visions embodied in ‘The Global Challenge’, a fifteen-year ‘voyage’ plan.^[7]

Currently, it is certified in many countries^[8] and serves many airlines^[9]. It has three partners; KLM Engineering & Maintenance, Swiss Air and Global Aviation USA^[10]

[edit] Facilities

All of its facilities are at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. They comprise 480,000 m² of built-up structures, including three hangars, a spares warehouse, workshops, utility buildings, ground support equipment building, chemical stores, engine test cell and management offices. In addition, GMF AeroAsia has an apron capable of handling up to 50 aircraft, taxiways, a run-up bay and a waste treatment area^[11] taking up a 1,150,000 m² area.

Hangar 1 was built in 1991 designed for Boeing 747s, has two full docks and is 22,000 m². Hangar 2 is 23,000 m² and has 3 aircraft bays. It can perform minor A and B checks. It can hold up to one narrow body and one wide body jet. Hangar 3 is 23,000 m². It normally holds up to 3 narrow body aircraft, but can be reconfigured to hold up to one wide body and one narrowbody. It has 7 bays with 4 full docks. It has 6 roof-mounted cranes and has one bay designed for MD11's, DC10's, and wide Airbus aircraft.^[11]

AeroAsia also provides certain assets of OEMs, located in a customs bonded area at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. Customers can get anything from this storage warehouse with a computerized system. It uses this warehouse to provide asset management, inventory assistance, management services and trading aircraft parts.^[12]^[13]