The European turboprop aircraft maker ATR and Royal Air Maroc announced the signing of an initial 4 year customized maintenance agreement (global maintenance agreement - GMA) for the airline's fleet of ATR '-600' aircraft delivered in August 2011.

As set out in the agreement, ATR will manage the maintenance and repair of aircraft equipment for the airline's ATR '-600' fleet including  LRUs and propeller blades, provide spare parts from its logistics center in Paris, and to have ATR exclusively for all of maintenance procedures.
 
Zouhair Mohamed El Aoufir deputy general manager of Royal Air Maroc said: “We are proud to be the first operator of these new ATR '-600' aircraft and we are very happy with the technical reliability of these aircraft, which we have already been operating for nearly two years.

It is now time to develop our partnership further with ATR through the signing of this agreement. This will allow us to be able to continue to optimize the operation of our new fleet and to offer a high quality service to our passengers.”

Lilian Braylé, ATR product support and services director, added: “One of the contributing factors to ATR's success is the support we offer our customers. We make sure we meet their requirements as far as is possible to ensure the rollout of their fleet and optimum daily operations.

GMA contracts are an essential part of our customer service strategy as they enable us to make our aircraft knowledge and expertise available to customers and to relieve them of important maintenance coordination and management tasks.” 

Close to 300 ATR aircraft are covered by the aircraft makers global maintenance agreement with ATR, representing almost a third of the total of ATR's current aircraft in operational fleet.