Union
Minister of State for Civil Aviation K C Venugopal on Wednesday said that the
Maintenance, Repair and
Overhaul
(MRO) facilities of Air India Express here will be augmented to allow other
airlines to use the facilities.
Handing
over the Director General of Civil Aviation’s approval for carrying out the
C-Check at the MRO,
Venugopal
said that in the next phase, the facility will be extended for aircraft other
than Boeing 737-800. A
certification
of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation
Administration of the US for
the
engineering base will be obtained to attract foreign aircraft, he said.
The
facility will enable to carry out C-Check on one aircraft every
month.
It is mandatory that an aircraft should undergo routine maintenance check after
every 7,500 hours. This
is
the fourth MRO in the country with approval for conducting C-Check. The
Minister also warned of stern action
against
exploitation of AME students by private institutions that function without
proper facilities. At present,
students
who completed AME are taken as trainees in the MRO and more persons will be
appointed, he said.
On
setting up Air Kerala in the state, the Union Minister said the Centre is yet
to receive any formal request in
this
regard. Any exemption for the project will be given only after getting the
proposal from Kerala, Venugopal
said.
He
said that the performance of Air India was improving with no major
cancellations in the last three months.
The
ontime performance of Air India Express was 96 per cent during this time, the
Minister said.
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