GMR Airport Developers Ltd (GADL), a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure Ltd, has started providing training to the first batch from Oman Airport Management Company at the GMR Aviation Academy.

After a two-week training stint in India, the OAMC team would return to Muscat. The 22-member team from OAMC is currently undergoing a specially designed course on Airfield Rescue and Firefighting at Hyderabad. Next week, the team will continue their training at GMRAA, New Delhi.

GADL had signed a memorandum of understanding with OAMC in June this year for providing training and consultancy services. Under the MoU, the GMR subsidiary would provide services ranging from programme management, testing and commissioning of airport systems, to development of aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenue streams, according to a GMR statement.

There would be a new batch every three weeks. About 6 to 10 batches, each consisting of 16 to 22 trainees, would undergo the training. The training programme would cover firefighters from all the four airports in Oman — Muscat, Salalah, Sohar and Duqm. In line with the terms, on-site support would be provided for six months at Salalah Airport.

GMR has been working towards offering consultancy services to airport companies in West Asia and South-East Asia. This training is tailored to help adapt some of the best practices of GMR’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, and Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad.

It had earlier provided training and consultancy to an airport management team in the Philippines.

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