New company for ground handling operations at Kochi

Kochi: Air India will soon hand over the ground handling operations at the Cochin airport to AI/SATS, the joint venture it had formed with the Singapore Air Terminal Service.
A spokesman for Air India told a group of reporters here that the company will upgrade the quality and speed of ground handling operations. The new company will take over the operations after Air India management formally hands over a 'letter of introduction' to the CIAL on this. The AI/SATS has already been deployed in the airports at Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and partly in Thiruvananthapuram
One of the new advantages of the new company is that it can bring down the turnaround time for the aircraft landing at the airport. Presently, the passengers have to wait at least 15 minutes to get their luggage cleared at the airport, but with the new company is targeting it to be brought down to six minutes, the spokesman said.
17/09/11 T Ramavarman/Times of India

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Categories: airports Sep 2011