European Audit Committee on Aircraft Maintenance Standards of “Air Algerie”

n the next few days, a committee of the European Agency for Aviation Safety and Security (EASA) will be selected by by “Air Algerie” to conduct technical aircraft maintenance standards audits and to consider whether the applicable European standards are duly in effect within the national airline Company.

According to the information available to ”Echorouk”, this committee will be entrusted with such an official mission within a few days. The last mission was conducted in Algeria in November 2018, after it had occurred every two years in a previous period.

According to the same sources, the solutions are to be provided by this committee through the auditing of the standards of aircraft maintenance as the latter stems from the fact that the European Agency for Safety and Security of Aviation “EASA” is the owner of the accreditation of the Algerian air maintenance branch “Part 145”, which allows the Algerian airliners to fly over the European and global airspace.

Such a supervisory audit must ensure that the maintenance of Air Algerie aircraft conforms to normal standards, and also allows for the possibility of repair and maintenance of aircraft of other companies.

The Committee will consider, according to available information, the extent to which technicians and engineers in the aircraft maintenance branch have been able to perform their duties in an efficient way notably by seeing to the conformity of the maintenance procedures in line with the criteria specified in the Algerian air support.

Moreover, the English language level of the flying staff and staff of the aircraft maintenance department will also be considered and reviewed, given that the language used in this section is English, especially after the contract was terminated with the Algerian Language Center, which offered English lessons to maintenance workers at Bab Ezzouar University for a rotating period of 15 days for each group of technicians.

It was a recommendation during the previous mission of the same European agency to improve the English language level of the Algerian air maintenance department’s staff and flying staff with regard to pronunciation, writing and understanding.

This supervisory audit mission due to be carried out by the European Agency for Aviation Safety and Security follows a spell of turbulence witnessed by the Algerian air maintenance department in 2018, with the workers launching several protest movements to demand better wages and the implementation of the collective labor agreement.