Air India scouts for clients for its MRO arm

After successfully conducting operational and competence checks on one of the two Airbus A330s, the country’s public sector airline, Air India, is now scouting for domestic and international clients for its aircraft maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) business.
“We will be speaking to all domestic and international airlines to utilise our expertise at the best,” Air India spokesperson Jitendra Bhargava told Financial Chronicle. Air India has 22 hangars and employs over 5,000 skilled personnel in the MRO division across the country.
At present, many Boeing and Airbus aircraft owned by domestic airlines such as Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines are flown to Belgium and other international centres for ‘C’ checks every 36 months. The check involves major component removal, inspection and installation; structural inspection and detailed operational/functional checks of the system.
According to an estimate, spending on MRO of aircraft in India that constitutes to over 15 per cent of the operating costs, is expected to go up to $1.2 billion by 2017, compared with over $450 million, now.
16/04/09 Rupesh Subhash Janve/mydigitalfc.com

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