IRAL & HAL looking for regional airline operators for North East

Nasik: Nasik based Indo-Russian Aviation Ltd. (IRAL) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), are looking for regional airline operators to operate in the North Eastern region of India. The companies are already in talk with a couple of airline operators in India for starting operations in the region. Providing an insight about the complete plan, Raghvendra Aggarwal, CEO, IRAL said, “We are looking at working as a catalyst in promoting and enhancing the connectivity in the North Eastern region of India. We are in talks with few airline operators to start a regional airline in North East. We plan to provide aircraft and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) facilities to the selected operators.” Once the airline operators for the North East region are chosen, both IRAL and HAL will look at opening aviation institutes in the region.
Both IRAL and HAL are aircraft manufacturers and are looking at possibilities to start heli-tourism in the North East. On the regional airline operations, the Meghalaya government is also looking into the proposal.
As reported by TravelBiz Monitor on August 19, 2008, The Development of North East Region (DoNER) has proposed an airline dedicated exclusively to the North East.
30/08/08 Anita Jain/TravelBizMonitor

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