British Airways (BA/BAW) has announced it has acquired the Boeing Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) site at London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK).
The site will be formally known as British Airways Engineering Gatwick (BAEG) and operated as a new, wholly owned subsidiary of British Airways.
The acquisition also secures the jobs of the Boeing employees at the facility that work there as they will be transferred to BAEG subject to what BA calls employee an “employee information and consultation process”.
British Airways will use the MRO facility to in-source scheduled heavy maintenance for its Airbus A320/321 fleet as well as light maintenance on its Boeing 777 fleet based at Gatwick.