New Hyderabad Airport leases land to Indian Airlines for MRO facility

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd, (GHIAL) has signed a lease agreement with Indian Airlines Limited (IA) for setting up Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facility at the upcoming Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Hyderabad.
As per terms of the agreement, the Indian Airlines will build a new MRO facility at the new international airport at Shamshabad. The existing operations at Begumpet Airport are expected to be transferred to the new MRO once the new facility is completed and commissioned at the new international airport around the time the airport goes operational in the first quarter of 2008.
GHIAL will invest and build connecting taxiway, apron and engine run-up bay as common facilities for the Indian Airlines' MRO.
The facility in Begumpet airport handles the initial maintenance checks (including C-Checks on IA's Airbus-320 aircraft. The IA will render similar service to its aircraft as well as those belonging to Air India at the new facility.
02/05/07 India eNews.com

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