Civil work for Air India maintenance base begins

Thiruvananthapuram: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Saturday set in motion the civil work for Air India’s (AI) Aircraft Engineering Maintenance Base in the vicinity of the upcoming international terminal of the Thiruvananthapuram international airport.
Mr. Achuthanandan lit the lamp and switched on the excavation to commence work on the Rs.70-crore base, a joint venture of Air India and the U.S.-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
The base will come up on 6.07 hectares of land provided free by the State government to Air India. The base is the second one of the national carrier after Mumbai.
The base will have a hangar, a concrete apron and two annexe buildings and will have the latest state-of-the-art technology.
The base will take care of the day-to-day line maintenance of Boeing 737-800 aircraft used by AIE, the no-frills airline of AI.
Chairman and managing director of National Aviation Company of India Ltd. (NACIL) Vasudevan Thulasidas said instructions had been given to complete the base in 12 months.
Mr. Thulasidas said the airline will commence daily flights from the State capital via Kochi to Delhi in the morning from this month end. The flight will return from Delhi in the evening via Kochi.
02/03/08 The Hindu

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