Air India to start MRO operations at Hyderabad, Nagpur units.

State-run Air India will soon start operations of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) units in Hyderabad and Nagpur, a senior airline official said.

The Hyderabad facility located near Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here will provide the MRO facility for two narrow - bodied and one wide bodied aircraft.

'It (Hyderabad facility) can accommodate two narrow body aircraft (two airbus aircrafts) or one wide -body in the hangers. Along with that we are having complete administrative departments moving over there as well. Complete Hyderabad operations of Air India Begumpet will be shifted to Shamshabad (new airport).

'The inauguration (of Hyderabad MRO) should happen within a few weeks, probably next month. Even Nagpur facility is ready and will be inaugurated soon just a few days after or before Hyderabad facility is done,' the official told PTI.

Both Hyderabad and Nagpur facilities are run by Air Indian Engineering Services and will cater to Air India fleet and future course of action will depend on policy decisions, the official added.

AIES has become a strategic business unit of Air India and future decisions will depend on that company.


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