Sri Lankan Airlines wins IndiGo maintenance deal

Sri Lankan Airlines said its engineering arm has been awarded a major contract by IndiGo to carry out a series of important maintenance checks on the fast-growing Indian carrier's aircraft fleet.
The work will be done by Sri Lankan Engineering, the aircraft maintenance arm of Sri Lanka's national airline, at it main hangar complex at the Bandaranaike International Airport north of Colombo, a company statement said.
IndiGo is India's largest domestic low-fare carrier, and is now that country's third largest airline in terms of passengers carried.
D A G Jayasuriya, Head of Engineering at Sri Lankan, said the airline has done several heavy maintenance checks for airlines such as Airblue and Emirates over the last several years.
Manoj Gunawardena, Sri Lankan's chief executive, said Sri Lankan Engineering is now ready to carry out work for all airlines in the region.
The airline's school for pilots, aircraft engineers and technicians, Sri Lankan Technical Training, also became one of a few companies in Asia to receive the EASA 147 certification to provide training in aircraft maintenance to foreign and local students.
Sri Lankan has experience with Airbus aircraft, having an all-Airbus fleet of A320, A330, and A340 aircraft. Indigo, which commenced operations in August 2006, now has 125 flights a day to 17 cities in India.
18/02/09 Lanka Business Online

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