Air India is set to open a first-of-its-kind mega warehouse facility in Delhi that will house over 1,000,000 engineering spares for maintenance, checks and repairs of its aircraft and ground support equipment.

The 54,00sqft warehouse will be located close to Terminal 3 at Indira Gandhi International Airport’s Air Cargo Logistics Division and will improve quick turnaround of the airline’s flights operating out of the city, according to Campbell Wilson, CEO and MD of Air India.

“The warehouse is a major milestone for Air India and a reinforcement of the quality, professionalism, and investment that we are now committed to make,” he said. “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.”

The integrated warehouse is first for an Indian airline and will offer a one-stop solution for storing aircraft spares, tools and ground support equipment ranging from hardware to sophisticated and complex avionics, hydraulics, structural, pneumatic, and mechanical components.

The warehouse will fulfil engineering resource requirement for maintenance and service of the Air India, Air India Express and AIX Connect fleet from a centralized location by integrating 16 subscale and scattered locations spread across Delhi and Mumbai into a consolidated state-of-the-art facility that will function as a hub and feeder network for operations throughout India.

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