As per a Business Standard report by Raghu Krishnan, Airbus SAS is planning an aircraft maintenance and repair overhaul (MRO) facility in India on the back of its biggest order of 250 passenger jets from IndiGo, run by InterGlobe Aviation. On August 15, IndiGo had said it would buy 250 Airbus A320 neo single-aisle passenger jets to drive growth. With this, IndiGo has ordered a total of 530 A320 planes, of which 100 aircraft have been delivered by Airbus.
The European aircraft maker has a dominant position in India’s airline fleet with nearly three-fourths of single aisle A 320 planes with airlines such as Vistara, GoAir and Air India. But its biggest customer in India is IndiGo, with a fleet of 96 planes.
“We are looking at it (MRO),” said Dwarakanath Srinivasan, Managing Director, Airbus India. He said the firm would take a call on either to go alone or with a partner for the facility.
In 2014, Airbus walked out of talks with GMR to buy a stake in its MRO in Hyderabad. Since then, the firm has partnered with AirWorks in Mumbai, which services planes for maintenance of Vistara.
01/09/15 TravelBizMonitor
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The European aircraft maker has a dominant position in India’s airline fleet with nearly three-fourths of single aisle A 320 planes with airlines such as Vistara, GoAir and Air India. But its biggest customer in India is IndiGo, with a fleet of 96 planes.
“We are looking at it (MRO),” said Dwarakanath Srinivasan, Managing Director, Airbus India. He said the firm would take a call on either to go alone or with a partner for the facility.
In 2014, Airbus walked out of talks with GMR to buy a stake in its MRO in Hyderabad. Since then, the firm has partnered with AirWorks in Mumbai, which services planes for maintenance of Vistara.
01/09/15 TravelBizMonitor
