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Pegasus opens $40m digitalised MRO at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen with five narrowbody bays

Pegasus Airlines has opened a $40m state-of-the-art MRO centre at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen, completing the first phase of its narrowbody maintenance build-out. The digitalised, sustainability-focused complex includes a paint hangar and five simultaneous narrowbody bays, expanding the carrier's in-house capability to support planned fleet growth.

Discovered 2026-02-18T03:33:18.835131-08:00 | 2026-02-18T03:33:18.835131-08:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • The facility adds five simultaneous narrowbody bays plus a paint hangar and represents a $40m capital commitment, materially increasing Pegasus’ in‑house maintenance throughput and reducing reliance on third‑party providers; see the airline's earlier plan to build in‑house MRO capacity (source:afa536af-50b4-4bce-a1cf-beb0d74c6b60).

  • The centre’s digitalisation and sustainability emphasis aligns infrastructure investment with operational efficiency and ESG objectives, supporting Pegasus’ fleet growth and wider financing moves by its owner (source:afe97fed-720a-4e30-a2bf-caafe54b0b9c).

  • The investment is part of a broader industry trend of carriers and groups expanding MRO capacity regionally to secure maintenance resilience and capture third‑party revenue, similar in scale and intent to recent airline MRO projects in the region (source:e76bf935-85a6-40d5-92b6-3c849b4cfdfc).

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Breitflyte Asian Aviation aviation.direct mrobusinesstoday.com ch-aviation Le Journal de l’Aviation
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2026-02-18T03:33:18.835131-08:00
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