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Ashwini Phadnis

The Changi Airport Managers and Partners will bid jointly with the Bharti-DLF consortium to restructure the Mumbai and Delhi airports.

recently in Singapore

SINGAPORE is keen to further increase the level of interaction with India in aviation and allied sectors. Some of the activities for which the Changi Airport Managers and Partners (CHAMP) have tied up with the Bharti-DLF consortium include, a bid for restructure the Delhi and Mumbai airports, supplying equipment to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) aimed at reducing the training time for Air Traffic Controllers at the Allahabad facility, helping Indian Airlines (IA) set up an MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) facility.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its subsidiary Silk Air are looking at increasing the number of flights to India. During a recent interaction with visiting Indian media, a cross section of senior level officials from aviation-related companies in Singapore outlined the prospects.

Officials of CHAMP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, said that their focus now was on India and China. SIA is keen to "graduate the Silk Air service to Hyderabad into an SIA service." It is also looking at increasing flights to Bangalore. CPG Consultants, said that they "were actively considering" participation in other airport projects in India.

The CPG group recently won (through international tendering) the right to participate in the remodelling of the Ahmedabad airport. CPG was established in 1975 as a specialist group for the development of Singapore's Changi Airport and currently has a substantial portfolio of projects in India, China and the ASEAN region. However, officials said it was up to the AAI to allocate projects to them. Commenting on when the proposed MRO facility would start functioning, senior officials of SIA Engineering said that a delegation would soon meet the new Chairman and Managing Director of IA to talk about the progress of the project. (The project was conceived of during the tenure of the former IA CMD, Mr Sunil Arora.)

"As of now the project is not off. We are moving from the Memorandum of Understanding stage to a joint venture stage," said a senior official.

The proposed MRO facility would look after the maintenance of the IA fleet and is expected to become operational in 3-5 months if all clearances being given. The two parties had reached an in-principle understanding to form a joint venture company (with IA holding majority stake) offering MRO services in October 2003.

The JV will offer airframe maintenance services from its facility in Delhi, line maintenance services at 10 major airports in India, as well as component repair and overhaul services, a statement said.

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