Thales has signed a strategic maintenance contract with IndiGo for the airline’s current fleet of 430 Airbus A320 aircraft and future order of over 800 A32X aircraft.
“This strategic partnership with IndiGo underscores our commitment to delivering airline world-class avionics support and services. Our new MRO facility in India increases Thales’s ability to provide a swift, reliable service, backed by the power of our global organisation, to meet the evolving demands of the Indian aviation industry,” said Thomas Got, Vice President, Aviation Global Services, Thales.
Thales says that, as part of the 11-year contract, it will be providing IndiGo with expert repair services for avionics components with Thales’s ‘Avionics-By-The-Hour’ (ABTH) programme. In addition, Thales’s ‘Repair-By-The-Hour’ (RBTH) guarantees timely maintenance for avionics.
Thales’s new state-of-the-art avionics MRO facility in Gurugram near the Delhi airport is designed to handle the increasing demand for avionics support and offers advanced technology to streamline repair processes and ensure high levels of fleet availability.
According to Thales, IndiGo has also extended a five-year contract with AvioBook, a Thales company, for AvioBook Flight Electronic Flight Bag solution authorised for paperless operations by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). AvioBook Flight has been in use across the entire IndiGo fleet for over a year, significantly reducing consumption of paper usage.
“We are pleased to partner with Thales, a leading aerospace company trusted worldwide for its expertise in avionics support, to augment IndiGo’s maintenance and repairs capabilities. With IndiGo’s growing scale and fleet, this association aligns with our commitment to offer a hassle-free and safe flying experience to our customers, while ensuring operational excellence and reliability,” said Parichay Datta, Senior Vice-president, Engineering, IndiGo.
