The MRO Division of Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (MBD), like so many European players, is finding growth opportunities outside the region. The unit does a particularly brisk business in landing gear MRO worldwide, especially on the Airbus side. Its share of its European Airbus landing gear MRO activity is approximately 40 percent, but it has achieved 60 percent of the busess in both Asia and North America, averaging out to about 45-50 percent worldwide, according to Alan Doherty, senior vice president, sales and business development, of MBD's MRO Division. Although the unit's share of Boeing landing gear business is less than 10 percent, both its Mexican and Singapore facilities are active in this market, with long-term contracts, and the Singapore operation is an approved Boeing Service Center. The company's biggest competitor in landing gear MRO worldwide is Lufthansa Technik (LHT), but regional rivals include the likes of AAR in North America. Worldwide the MBD MRO Division has some 500 airline customers in the Airbus sector, including JetBlue and Frontier in America, British Airways and airberlin in Europe, Qatar Airways and Emirates Airline in the Middle East, and Cathay Pacific and Thai Airways in Asia Pacific.
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