ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways Engineering, the Middle East’s leading aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider, has become the first organisation in the Middle East to be granted an extended Part 21J Design Organisation approval by the European Aviation Safety Agency, Easa, to undertake major cabin design and modification. With the new approval, Etihad Airways Engineering will be entitled to design and certify major changes to cabin interiors, galleys or other interior equipment and related structure, and environmental and electrical systems.