Immense scope in maintenance, refuelling areas:
Venugopal
The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation is working towards making the
Thiruvananthapuram international airport an aviation hub to take advantage of
the immense opportunities in aircraft maintenance and refuelling, Union
Minister of State for Civil Aviation K.C. Venugopal has said.
He was addressing a press conference here on Wednesday after handing
over the certificate of the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to Air
India Chief of Engineering H.R. Jagannath to commence the ‘C’ check of aircraft
at the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility of Air India Charters
Limited (AICL), a fully-owned subsidiary of the Air India, in the vicinity of
the airport here.
Describing it as a ‘milestone’ in the aviation history as the capital
had become the fourth city in the country to be on the MRO map, Mr. Venugopal
said the MRO would soon start the groundwork to get the approval of the
European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and later the Federal Aviation
Administration.
To a query, Mr. Venugopal said his Ministry was yet to receive the
report on the proposed Air Kerala mooted by the State government. The Ministry
was for further development of the Thiruvananthapuram airport and land
acquisition had to be taken up by the State government. On the proposed
Aranmula airport, he said it was coming up in the private sector and the
Ministry had no role in it. Mr. Venugopal said all formalities to provide
tourist visa on arrival at the airport had been completed. It would be launched
soon.
The airline had been asked to make reservation foolproof in the wake of
recent complaints. The government had already given Rs.2,000 crore to Air India
as part of the Rs.6,000-crore turnaround package and the remaining amount would
be given soon. The Air India Express (AIE) had invited applications for the
recruitment of 40 pilots, he said.
· Tourist
visa on arrival soon at airport
· Further
development of airport proposed
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