ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A St. Louis-based airline is expanding its operations at Lambert International Airport.
GoJet Airlines, which has been a part of aviation community since it was founded in St. Louis almost 43 years ago, is getting a new FAA certification to be a maintenance provider for every aircraft coming to Lambert.
"We have a great depth of experience, highly skilled leadership, highly-skilled long term technician bases of people here in St. Louis," said GoJet President and CEO Rick Leach on Total Information A.M. "It was an opportunity to expand the services for us to get our 145 certificate, which is the certificate that allows us to provide maintenance and heavy repair and overhaul work to other regional airlines or either other large airlines around the country. So it's an opportunity for us to expand our reach."
Leach says the airline plans to add about 150 jobs. GoJet expects the expansion to be fully up and operational with six lines of heavy maintenance and modification lines by mid-July. The expansion will eliminate the need for other airlines to contract out heavy maintenance work.
"There's a need for high quality service. And for a 121 carrier like GoJet to be able to also to offer that service to the industry is very positive because there's only one other regional that has this certification," said Leach.
Most of the jobs that will be coming from the expansion will be what the airline calls Air Frame and Power Plant (A&P) Mechanics, which is a license designation for a highly skilled maintenance technician. Leach says the airline is still looking for pilots and they will offer an apprentice program for people that have a mechanical aptitude.
"We can bring them in and begin to train them to the level to where they can receive their A&P certification with our mentorship and guidance and training," said Leach. "But the majority of those jobs are all going to be those highly skilled A&P mechanics that are really good high paying jobs in this field."
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