The maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Nagpur built by Boeing Co, which is set to be operated by Air India, will be operational by the next calendar year, a senior official of the US-based aircraft manufacturing company told FE.
“The Nagpur MRO is almost complete. The taxiway to the MRO from the main runway, which is currently under construction, is slated to be completed in the next few months,” said Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president, sales, Asia Pacific and India, Boeing.
“The MRO should be operational by April-June next year,” Keskar added.
The sprawling 50-acre Nagpur facility, which can accommodate up to three wide-bodied aircraft at a time, is expected to enhance revenues of Air India’s MRO unit, Air India Engineering Services (AIESL), which has been hived into a separate company in 2013. According to senior Air India officials, AIESL is expected to earn as much as R800 crore to R1,000 crore a year from the facility, within three years after the unit gets operational.