Last month as floods ravaged Uttarakhand, Vivek N Gour, 51, was feeling the heat in Delhi. "They [helicopter owners] wanted us to help in evacuation," says the MD of Air Works, a Delhi-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) outfit. Air Works repairs and maintains aircraft for corporates, individuals, commercial airlines and charter operators. Some helicopter owners wanted onground and maintenance support in deploying their aircraft for rescue operations.
Gour quickly put together a team led by two senior executives. The Rs 400-crore company has 50-odd engineers and technicians specialising in Bell helicopters, based out of Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore. Many of them were moved to Delhi. For over two weeks, Air Works engineers worked round-the-clock to keep eight helicopters in flying condition. Four technicians camped out near Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand to take care of emergency repair and maintenance work.
Uttarakhand isn't the only new territory that Air Works and Gour is moving into. Since 2007, the 62-year-old company has embarked on a major overhaul — shaking up its ownership structure, rejigging its top deck, acquiring companies, seeding new businesses, expanding its footprint within India and overseas — to become India's largest MRO outfit.
28/07/13 Malini Goyal/Economic Times
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Gour quickly put together a team led by two senior executives. The Rs 400-crore company has 50-odd engineers and technicians specialising in Bell helicopters, based out of Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore. Many of them were moved to Delhi. For over two weeks, Air Works engineers worked round-the-clock to keep eight helicopters in flying condition. Four technicians camped out near Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand to take care of emergency repair and maintenance work.
Uttarakhand isn't the only new territory that Air Works and Gour is moving into. Since 2007, the 62-year-old company has embarked on a major overhaul — shaking up its ownership structure, rejigging its top deck, acquiring companies, seeding new businesses, expanding its footprint within India and overseas — to become India's largest MRO outfit.
28/07/13 Malini Goyal/Economic Times
