New floor dealing with agency to be employed at Chennai airport as alternative for Turkish agency Celebi

Chennai airport at the moment has two corporations—AI Airport Services Limited and Bird Airport Services—which airways have been deploying for his or her quite a few in floor dealing with wants like shifting passenger baggage between terminal and plane, plane servicing and cleansing, help companies in flight operations and upkeep amongst others.

The firm had bagged contracts for a number of airports like Chennai, Goa, Kochi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi and Kannur a couple of years again. In the town airport, the corporate managed a reasonably vital quantity of floor dealing with and the airways together with US Bangla, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Scoot and SpiceJet had opted for the companies of Çelebi till the license was cancelled by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). Revoking this firm’s license got here when safety considerations emerged following navy strikes and tensions between India and Pakistan.

In May, when the BCAS withdrew the license to this Turkish-based agency, AAI mentioned, airways utilizing their companies rapidly selected to go together with the 2 different corporations with out inflicting any inconvenience for passengers.

Officials of AAI mentioned, after the ban of Çelebi, they’ve now issued a Request for Proposal for floor dealing with companies at Chennai airport. “It is a compulsory requirement from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that main airports will need to have three corporations for floor dealing with help. This approach, duopoly is averted and in case of any disaster like what occurred in May, there are at all times two corporations obtainable at an airport and the operations should not disturbed. If just one agency is obtainable, then the agency might scramble for manpower and in consequence, baggage supply could also be delayed, and passengers will likely be affected. Hence, it’s very best to have three corporations,” an official mentioned.