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Aeronautical maintenance, Atitech recruitment and international contracts

Ceo Lettieri: in 2025, agreements with Airbus and an Arab Emirates company, one hundred new jobs at Fiumicino, and 330 for the Olbia hub dedicated to private jets

by Davide Madeddu

20 February 2026

3' min read

Translated by AI

Versione italiana

3' min read

Translated by AI

Versione italiana

New international agreements, one hundred new hires at Fiumicino, and a horizon that looks towards further growth. The aviation maintenance sector is working, and carving out a leading role for itself in Italia and abroad is Atitech, a company led by President and CEO Gianni Lettieri.

"The year 2025 closed with a turnover of 180 million euro," says the manager, "in addition, we closed a number of important agreements with both Airbus and a company in the Arab Emirates for the construction of a hub in Riyadh. Not only, underlining this growth, are the new hires in the company, which now has 1,600 employees and offers highly specialised services, including base maintenance (both heavy and light), technical design, aeronautical design solutions and workshop activities, and a base, that of Olbia, dedicated to business jets.

"Business is going quite well," Lettieri emphasises, "there have been a hundred new hires at Fiumicino that add up to the others made previously. Before the autumn, in fact, the company had 'enrolled'330 people in Olbia for the opening of the new hub, drawing from the staff left on the ground after the closure of AirItaly to carry on the 16 million euro project and a potential turnover of 60 million with the new Business Aviation hub, i.e. a centre of excellence for the maintenance of private jets in Olbia.

What has been called the 'Sardinian rib' of the largest independent Mro (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) in the EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) market, with headquarters at Naples-Capodichino Airport. Growth, then, also favours recruitment. "We look carefully at the young people coming out of the Capodichino and Fiumicino schools," emphasises Lettieri, "and I must say that they are responding well.

The company operates from 21 bases in Italia and ten abroad, 'from Tel Aviv to Sao Paulo' with a customer portfolio of over one hundred companies, including airlines, institutional entities, and governmental organisations. In addition, it has scheduled maintenance services at 29 peripheral airports in Italia and abroad.

The company's horizon is vast. And it also looks at more areas of aeronautics and international scenarios. This includes the agreement with Airbus Defence and Space, the division of the Airbus Group responsible for products and services in the defence and space sector, which provides for a strategic collaboration in the maintenance, repair and overhaul of Airbus military aircraft. The aim is to 'strengthen the service supply chain within the European defence ecosystem, in a context of geopolitical uncertainty'. An agreement that came after landing in Saudi Arabia by virtue of an agreement with Alnimr Alarabi holding. The aim is a joint venture that will develop a centre of excellence specialising in the maintenance and overhaul of aircraft and components in Saudi Arabia. And thus create a leading aviation maintenance company in the South Asia, Middle East and Africa region.

'Business is going well,' Lettieri adds, 'of course we have to deal with long, sometimes drawn-out times, but this is due to the procedures, which are very complex. Then there is the training front, which sees the company constantly engaged and attentive to new initiatives. As for the future, the horizon, as the manager reiterates, 'is that of constant growth both in Italia and abroad'.