Base maintenance cabin work
Tedlar replacement, non-textile flooring, carpet, panel repair and smart repairs — planned into the check so the cabin comes out of it in the condition the check was worth.
C-check and heavy maintenanceCabin maintenance and retrofit
Passengers paying premium prices expect a cabin that is perfect. Our teams work inside your operation — line and base — to keep it that way: maintenance, defect rectification, refurbishment and reconfiguration.
Inside your check
Base and line, from A-check cosmetics to full C-check scope
In your systems
Integrated into production planning, defects raised in your system, e.g. AMOS
Your Part 145 releases
We work to your processes, your organisation signs off
In short
Two kinds of work sit behind a cabin that looks right. Cabin care is everything that keeps it in good condition: regular maintenance, fixing defects, meeting safety standards. Cabin cosmetics is keeping it looking nice — the scratch on the seat shell, the small dent, the panel that has aged faster than the rest.
We do both, in line maintenance between flights and in base maintenance when the aircraft is out of service for several days. The teams work in your planning and your defect system, and release to service runs through your Part 145.
What is included
Four kinds of cabin work, one team
Which of these applies is decided by the check the aircraft is in — not by which supplier happens to be available.
Line maintenance cabin care
Day-to-day work on aircraft still in service: scratch and dent removal, refitting of seat components, surface touch-ups and detail cleaning, done between flights. On an A330neo fleet this runs as continuous line cabin care with a focus on Business Class appearance. The units are mobile: they come to the aircraft, inside your operation, rather than the aircraft going to a shop.
A-check and lineModifications and reconfiguration
From a single upgrade to a full reconfiguration: seat covers, carpets and NTF when a new aircraft has to match the rest of the fleet, wireless IFE installations, and cabin placards — including the change from single- to dual-language sets.
EASA Part 21J Minor ModFlooring and surface materials
Carpet, non-textile flooring and Tedlar are their own discipline. Cuts confined to non-visible zones, secured edges and flush transitions, bonding systems matched to substrate and load, and controlled handling for a material that is unforgiving of one wrong step.
Carpet · NTF · TedlarSeat programmes
Seats our technicians already know
Cabin work is seat-specific, and experience on the programme is what decides whether a repair takes an hour or a shift.
| Class | Seat programmes | Typical work |
|---|---|---|
| Business Class | Safran Cirrus · Collins Aerospace Super Diamond · Thompson Aero Vantage · Stelia Solstys | Shell and trim repair, refitting of components, cosmetic restoration, appearance care between checks |
| Premium Economy | Collins Aerospace Icon · Recaro PL3530 · ZIM PC01/02 | Cover changes, component refits, cosmetic repair, reconfiguration during transitions |
| Cabin, all classes | Panels, monuments, galleys, stowages | Panel and surface repair, trim and monument work, smart repairs |
Whole cabins, not single tasks
On a B777-200ER and B777-300ER series we carried the full cabin responsibility through base maintenance and the C-checks — teams of up to fifteen people, nose to tail, aircraft after aircraft.
Same team, structural scope
Composite repair, without removing the part
Structural repair of composite components, carried out on-wing — for airlines and for MROs.
Repairs are executed directly at the aircraft, within the maintenance window that is already planned, using controlled processes that keep the work compliant with airworthiness requirements. Because nothing has to be removed and shipped, the downtime stays inside the slot instead of extending past it.
The scope covers acoustic liners, nacelle inner composite structures, cabin panels and monuments, galleys, and honeycomb sandwich structures.
Inside the work
Three things a cabin check really involves
Questions we get asked
Cabin work, answered before the first call
Do you work in our systems, or bring your own?
Yours. Our teams are integrated into your production planning, and defects are identified and rectified in your maintenance system — AMOS, for example — the same way your own staff would do it. Release to service is carried out through your Part 145 organisation.
Can cabin work happen during an A-check?
Yes, within what a light check allows: scratch and dent removal, refitting of seat components, surface touch-ups and detail cleaning. Structural cabin work — Tedlar, flooring, panel repair — belongs in a base maintenance event, because that is when the interior can actually be opened up.
Which seat types do you have experience on?
In Business Class: Safran Cirrus, Collins Aerospace Super Diamond, Thompson Aero Vantage and Stelia Solstys. In Premium Economy: Collins Aerospace Icon, Recaro PL3530 and ZIM PC01/02. If your seat is not on that list, that is not an obstacle — we are glad to add new types to it.
Why does Tedlar need specialists?
Because the failure usually happens before installation. Tedlar is a sensitive fluoropolymer that can be damaged in storage, transport or handling, and the damage often shows only once the panel is fitted. We work to a strict right-first-time methodology: controlled handling across the whole chain, and precise surface preparation.
Do you repair composite components?
Yes, as on-wing structural repair — acoustic liners, nacelle inner composite structures, cabin panels and monuments, galleys and honeycomb sandwich structures. The work is done at the aircraft within a defined maintenance window, so the component does not have to come off and travel.
How large a team can you put on an aircraft?
On a B777 series in base maintenance we have run teams of up to fifteen people with full cabin responsibility, nose to tail, across consecutive aircraft. For line cabin care on a narrowbody fleet it is a small mobile unit instead — the team is sized to the check, not to a standard package.
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Tell us the check and the fleet.
Aircraft type, which check the work has to fit into, and what the cabin has to look like at the end.