MUMBAI: Tata group-owned Air India has signed a long-term settlement with Honeywell, an American aerospace know-how conglomerate, for Auxiliary Energy Unit (APU) aftermarket help masking each Air India’s present and new fleets.
“The settlement supplies complete upkeep help for Honeywell APUs, guaranteeing excessive plane dispatch reliability and fleet availability, and decrease unplanned upkeep prices throughout Air India’s fleet,” stated Honeywell in a press assertion issued just lately.
The APU is a important piece of plane tools that gives electrical energy and air con to a aircraft whereas it’s on the bottom. The APU is what retains the passenger cabin cooled when the plane is on floor. Airways rely both on APU or an exterior floor energy unit to run the cabin air con when the jet engines are off.
It helps guarantee passenger consolation and provides the air supply earlier than a pilot is able to begin the principle engines. “APUs are a part of a broad vary of Honeywell applied sciences shaping the way forward for aviation. That is one in every of three world megatrends that Honeywell’s portfolio is aligned to, which additionally contains Automation and Power Transition,” stated Honeywell.
“We’re delighted to strengthen our collaboration with Air India and assist in its fleet modernization efforts, as a part of a long-standing dedication to supporting the provider’s innovation and development goals,” stated Ashish Modi, president of Honeywell India. “This newest milestone in our 30-year-plus partnership with Air India is a testomony to our key function in accelerating the expansion of India’s aviation sector by way of revolutionary know-how.”
With air journey steadily rising, the necessity for simply accessible aftermarket providers continues to rise. “Underneath the settlement, Honeywell will ship to Air India complete APU aftermarket help to make sure the continued reliability and effectivity of Air India’s in depth fleet of greater than 300 plane. This contains its legacy fleet, which consists of over 100 A320 plane, 15 B777 plane and its new fleet of 190 B737-8 plane, and can cowl Honeywell’s 131-9A, 131-9B and 331-500 sequence APUs. Honeywell’s in depth world service and help community is designed to make sure that its APUs function at optimum efficiency with minimal operational disruption,” stated Honeywell.
Sisira Kanta Sprint, chief technical officer, Air India, stated: “That is an thrilling milestone that provides to our long-standing partnership with Honeywell. This settlement varieties a part of our world development and transformation plans, to assist obtain extra environment friendly, dependable operations, with maximized fleet availability, by way of Honeywell’s superior know-how providers that allow us to proceed assembly the wants of our valued clients.” Honeywell has over seven a long time of expertise having produced over 100,000 gasoline turbine APUs,
“The settlement supplies complete upkeep help for Honeywell APUs, guaranteeing excessive plane dispatch reliability and fleet availability, and decrease unplanned upkeep prices throughout Air India’s fleet,” stated Honeywell in a press assertion issued just lately.
The APU is a important piece of plane tools that gives electrical energy and air con to a aircraft whereas it’s on the bottom. The APU is what retains the passenger cabin cooled when the plane is on floor. Airways rely both on APU or an exterior floor energy unit to run the cabin air con when the jet engines are off.
It helps guarantee passenger consolation and provides the air supply earlier than a pilot is able to begin the principle engines. “APUs are a part of a broad vary of Honeywell applied sciences shaping the way forward for aviation. That is one in every of three world megatrends that Honeywell’s portfolio is aligned to, which additionally contains Automation and Power Transition,” stated Honeywell.
“We’re delighted to strengthen our collaboration with Air India and assist in its fleet modernization efforts, as a part of a long-standing dedication to supporting the provider’s innovation and development goals,” stated Ashish Modi, president of Honeywell India. “This newest milestone in our 30-year-plus partnership with Air India is a testomony to our key function in accelerating the expansion of India’s aviation sector by way of revolutionary know-how.”
With air journey steadily rising, the necessity for simply accessible aftermarket providers continues to rise. “Underneath the settlement, Honeywell will ship to Air India complete APU aftermarket help to make sure the continued reliability and effectivity of Air India’s in depth fleet of greater than 300 plane. This contains its legacy fleet, which consists of over 100 A320 plane, 15 B777 plane and its new fleet of 190 B737-8 plane, and can cowl Honeywell’s 131-9A, 131-9B and 331-500 sequence APUs. Honeywell’s in depth world service and help community is designed to make sure that its APUs function at optimum efficiency with minimal operational disruption,” stated Honeywell.
Sisira Kanta Sprint, chief technical officer, Air India, stated: “That is an thrilling milestone that provides to our long-standing partnership with Honeywell. This settlement varieties a part of our world development and transformation plans, to assist obtain extra environment friendly, dependable operations, with maximized fleet availability, by way of Honeywell’s superior know-how providers that allow us to proceed assembly the wants of our valued clients.” Honeywell has over seven a long time of expertise having produced over 100,000 gasoline turbine APUs,
