IAG to Start Servicing CFM LEAP Engines in Madrid
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Market Consensus Alphavalue/ Divacons The Spanish-British airline established IAG Engine Tech, a new subsidiary aimed at centralizing the management of the group's engine maintenance business. The company will operate from Iberia's facilities in La Muñoza (Madrid), where it has recently obtained the LEAP premier MRO license. According to Iberia sources, the creation of this structure responds to the need to operate with a “global scale” in the …
The IAG holding company has created a new company, IAG Engine Tech, which will manage the group’s engine maintenance business as a whole and will operate from Iberia’s facilities in La Muñoza (Madrid). The company, which has obtained the LEAP Premier MRO license for the maintenance of LEAP engines, needs to develop structures capable of operating “on a global scale”, according to sources from Iberia. This means making investments in infrastructu…
Iberia will become one of CFM International's future critical maintenance centres for LEAP engines through a "CFM LEAP Premier MRO" licence covering LEAP‐1A and LEAP‐1B, reference engines on Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX. Starting in 2027, its workshop in La Muñoza, near Madrid‐Barajas, will increase power to accommodate the first engines and position itself as a strategic hub in Europe for this fast growing segment. Iberia obtains the LEAP …
The Iberia parent company, the holding company IAG, has created a subsidiary for the maintenance of engines and will focus its activity in Madrid. La Muñoza’s workshop will thus welcome 70% of the engines that will be on the market in 2035. It is LEAP engines, used in short- and long-range aircraft with a single corridor, such as the Airbus A320neo and the Boeing 737 MAX.
IAG to start servicing CFM LEAP engines in Madrid
CFM International announced, on April 20, 2026, that it has signed an agreement with International Airlines Group (IAG) through which the European airline group will join the service network for the LEAP-1A and LEAP-1B engines. In particular, IAG will concentrate on its LEAP engine servicing activity at the engine shop of its Iberia arm in La Muñoza, a large, sprawling MRO center adjacent to Madrid-Barajas International Airport (MAD). The Mad…
Iberia strengthens its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) division. Along with the air group to which it belongs, IAG has reached an agreement with the manufacturer of these CFM International engines to obtain the license that covers LEAP-1A and LEAP-1B engines, which use single corridor aircraft. Thus, the capabilities of this division will be progressively expanded to support operators from all over the world, including IAG’s airline fleet…
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