By Jon Hemmerdinger2021-04-29T21:13:00+01:00 The Covid-19 pandemic has jumbled the aircraft maintenance and repair industry, driving down prices for some aircraft components and leaving MRO shops reeling from depressed demand. But amid the gloom come glimmers of optimism: some executives report a recent uptick in business and suspect demand will jump as airlines return jets to service. Source: Lufthansa Technik “We really started recovering now, in March,” says Eric Van Lewis, owner of Patriot Components, an aerospace repair shop based near Miami. He notes that, during the pandemic, airlines cannibalised parts from the hundreds of jets they had moved into storage, using those parts to keep their fewer active aircraft flying.