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Oct 09, 2019 (newstodate): Poland's Rzeszow Jasionka Airport will boast of a brand-new large aircraft maintenance center to be commissioned in 2022.
   Behind the project are Polska Grupa Lotnicza, LOT Aircraft Maintenance Services, LOTAMS, and Rzeszow Jasionka Airport agreeing to build one of Europe's largest aircraft maintenance facilities to offer both narrow- and wide-body aircraft maintenance services.
   The project comprises construction of three hangars for servicing and repairing aircraft, and one for aircraft painting.
   The scope of the fully expanded facilities will allow for simultaneous technical maintenance of four wide-body and five narrow-body aircraft, or 15 narrow-body aircraft, or 20 regional aircraft.
    Slated for commissioning in 2020, the airport will also see the opening of a new engine maintenance center, EME Aero set up by a JV comprising the German companies Lufthansa Technik AG and MTU Aero Engines AG and offering the annual capacity of handling 400 engine maintenance and repair jobs with a focus on the PW1000G family engines used on the Airbus A320neo and similar types of aircraft.  
   An international airport in southeastern Poland near the Polish border to Ukraine and Slovakia and with a 3,200 m runway, Rzeszow Jasionka Airport is the seventh-busiest airport in Poland, measured in passenger volumes.