Brazilian aerospace major Embraer has partnered with state-owned Air India to set up a maintenance and repair MRO facility to maintain its brand of private and business jets in the entire Southeast Asian region.
The airline’s engineering subsidiary, Air India Engineering Services Limited, has been mandated this task under an initial pact signed recently, airline officials said.
The proposed facility is expected to come up at the Begumpet airport in Secunderabad in Telangana, they said. “Embraer came to us because they are planning to sell 40 aircraft in the region by 2018 and they need to have a maintenance system in place for those planes,” said an Air India official.
http://www.livemint.com/Industry/QUd5Ge ... rabad.html
This is a very interesting development for several reasons:
1. There's no airline in India, operating any Embraer aircraft.
2. The entire facility is intended for Business Jets.
3. Till a few years ago, Indian airlines used to go abroad for MRO, because of very high taxes. Now, India is able to attract foreign companies.
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