Thales has signed an avionics support contract with India’s IndiGo, covering its current and future fleet of Airbus narrowbodies.
The deal, announced 17 September, is the largest avionics maintenance contract to be signed in India. Thales does not disclose the financial value of the contract.
The 11-year contract will see Thales provide by-the-hour support for avionic components on the airline’s current fleet of A320-family aircraft, as well as its future fleet of over 800 aircraft.
Repairs will be carried out at Thales’s newly-opened avionics MRO facility in Gurugram city, near the capital Delhi.
The facility “is designed to handle the increasing demand for avionics support, featuring advanced technology to streamline repair processes and ensure high levels of fleet availability,” states Thales.
Separately, IndiGo has also extended a five-year contract with Thales-owned AvioBook for the latter’s electronic flight bag solution.
According to Thales, AvioBook Flight – the electronic flight bag solution – has already “helped significantly reduce consumption of paper usage annually thereby advancing environmental sustainability goals and streamlining flight operations on over 2,000 flights every day”.
