Air India’s engineering services on Monday handed back a Boeing 777 aircraft to Jet Airways after repairing it in their Mumbai hangar.
The national carrier informed that they plan to earn '175 crore by undertaking similar jobs for private airlines. Air India has a contract with as many as 30 airlines, and as part of one job, they replaced landing gear and carried out maintenance checks of Jet Airways’ Boeing aircraft. With this, the airline became the first in the Indian aviation industry to have checked the Boeing 777 aircraft of another airline.
Meanwhile, Jet Airways is said to have saved many million US dollars by giving Air India the repair job else they would have had to send the aircraft abroad for checking and maintenance.
Airline officials said that the task included fuel tank modification which was a tricky job considering scavenge lines running up to 200 feet inside the fuel tanks had to be replaced with various wiring changes by the Air India engineering team.
Job completed, a ceremony was held at the old airport terminal at the Air India hangar with CEO, Air India Engineering Services (AIES), H.R. Jagannath, addressing it as the face of ‘Make in India’. “The task included C check + 8 yearly check and landing gear replacement of a B777-300 ER aircraft of Jet Airways within an agreed turnaround time (TAT) of 30 days.
Air India Engineering Services is approved by DGCA-India and federation of aviation association,” he said. Mr Jagannath disclosed that they had also signed up with Go Air to carry out landing gear change and engine replacement work.
