By establishing a massive warehousing facility in Delhi, Air India has improved its engineering infrastructure yet again. The facility will be utilized to store spare components for the company's aircraft that will be required for maintenance and repairs. In addition to expanding its fleet and network, the airline has concentrated on strengthening its engineering capabilities to meet its anticipated development.
Delhi's newest warehouse
Near Terminal 3 of Delhi Airport's Air Cargo Logistics division's Cargo complex, Air India has established a sizable engineering warehouse. Over a million technical spare parts can be kept in the central warehouse, which has a floor area of 54,000 square feet.
The airline anticipates quicker turnarounds for its aircraft departing from New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport thanks to this new facility. CEO Campbell Wilson of Air India said,
“The warehouse is a major milestone for Air India and a reinforcement of the quality, professionalism, and investment that we are now committed to making. This worldclass facility will not only boost Air India’s fleet and operational efficiency but will also strengthen India’s aviation ecosystem. The warehouse will offer us more proximate access to and better control over our aircraft spares enabling us to meet any engineering requirement promptly - leading to improved punctuality of flights.”
improving engineering skills
According to the airline, the massive warehouse would hold all of the fleet's resource needs, including those of Air India, Air India Express, and AirAsia India. The airline's operations would be based out of this centralized location, which will serve as a hub and feeder network for all of India. Air India anticipates that doing this will streamline airline operations and guarantee improved inventory control.
Air India has had a significant interest in expanding its engineering capabilities since becoming a private company.
According to reports, the airline is reportedly considering working with the government-owned MRO firm AI Engineering Services Limited (AIESL).
During the privatization of the airline, AIESL, which had previously been a division of Air India devoted to engineering, remained a government-owned company. In order to submit a bid, Air India may even team up with Lufthansa Technik and the Air France-KLM technical division.
All of these changes are the result of its new management team's efforts to address a number of historical problems in order to improve Air India as an airline in the next years. The carrier will need to make these major improvements in engineering as it prepares to receive hundreds of new aircraft over the next ten years.
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