Mumbai: The Turkish Airlines’ Airbus A340 plane, which had skidded three days earlier on the main runway at the airport here and then got stuck, rendering the stretch inoperative, was finally removed today.
While the loss incurred by Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) and other airlines, owing to flight cancellations and diversions, could not be known, Turkish Airlines (TA) or its insurer would have to pay the cost involved. This could include about $75,000 (Rs 33 lakh) in charges to Air India (AI), which did the job, plus charges to MIAL, which facilitated construction of a pathway to remove the plane from slush.
AI, as a member of the International Airlines Technical Pool (IATP), is sole custodian of disabled aircraft recovery kits in India and South Asia. The task of removing the plane, using inflatable air bags, was done by the government carrier. "Turkish Airlines is a member of IATP but not a participant in the recovery kit sharing pool and, hence, would have to pay AI for its services,'' an aviation source said. Members of that pool can use the recovery kit for seven days free of cost, but non-members are required to pay $65,000 as uplift fee and $3,000 r a day for usage. In addition, AI can charge for the costs of its engineers and other personnel to assist the operation.
06/09/11 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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