Jet Air plans MRO unit, catering subsidiary

New Delhi: Jet Airways will set up a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility within the next 18 months and a flight catering subsidiary within the current year as part of its diversification plans in order to generate larger revenues and offset losses from its core aviation business. These will also be a separate subsidiary for the hotel business which will start with a hotel in Brussels near the airline’s European hub.
At present, the food on the carrier’s domestic flights is provided by Oberoi's flight catering service. Jet Airways also signed a three year contract with Aviapartner Catering starting from August 2007 to provide food for international flights.
The company has short-listed five cities - Delhi, Nagpur, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai for setting up the MRO facility which is expected to start by mid-2009 at an estimated cost of over Rs 100 crore. At the moment, the company has not decided on who to partner for the project but sources said they would prefer an India-based company.
24/01/08 Shauvik Ghosh/Financial Express

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