Natalia Płaza | Deimantė Žilinskienė
pages: 67-82;
JEL classification: A12, C00, C53;
Keywords: customs, management, aviation, savings, finance;
Abstract: Scope of the article will cover analysis of special customs procedures and other facilitations that
can be used in MRO business. The two research questions that are answered in the paper are:
what customs procedures can be used, how they work and if those can reduce costs of MRO
operations significantly. There are two research methodological approaches used in this article:
qualitative and quantitative. Results show a great difference in savings between two variants, in
which one would present a very basic level of special customs procedures usage and a variant in
which all presented possibilities would be applied. Research results showed many possibilities
for changes in the customs strategy of a company interested in evolving it and generating savings from many facilitations due to usage of special customs procedures as well as a compact
explanation of how the application of a special procedures process looks. This article may be
interesting for both: scientists and specialists working in the field of customs as well as for the
companies working internationally with a lot of imported materials needed to perform work on
an engine or aircraft.