Pune hotelier to offer helicopter services

Pune: To stay ahead of competition, India’s rapidly growing hospitality industry is racing to provide value-added services, the latest entrant being the city-based St Laurn Hotels and Resorts, which is planning to offer helicopter services so that guests can fly between its properties without any hassle.
“We are currently undertaking a techno-feasibility study for the new project, which we hope to start by the first quarter of calendar year 2009,” St Laurn’s managing director Laxman Kariyaa said.
The hospitality firm is setting up a new company, St Laurn Aviation, with an initial investment of Rs20 crore for the purpose. It is also discussing wet leasing of helicopters with various companies that include US-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
Wet leasing is an industry term for leasing aircraft on an Acmi (aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance) basis.
08/04/08 Sudha Menon/Livemint

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