Air Works India Expands Line Maintenance

Air Works India Engineering, India’s only private maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) third-party provider, is expanding its line maintenance capabilities with the inauguration of facilities at Trichy International Airport, its second client after Bengaluru International Airport.
Air Works, which plans to start line maintenance at many airports, including its next facility at a non-metro airport in South India, will be a worthy competitor to national carrier Air India in Trichy and Bengaluru and will be in a position to “offer better rates and the ability to turn around an aircraft faster,” says Dhiraj Chhabra, associate VP-marketing.
Line maintenance is minor maintenance carried out on aircraft in service en route and stopped before its next flight to ensure it is fit for the flight.
While the trend is for airlines to do their own line maintenance, large Indian carriers, such as Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, generally do not outsource.
06/01/11 Neelam Mathews/Aviation Week

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jan 2011