Global engine maker Pratt & Whitney (P&W) today said it has entered into an agreement with IndiGo under which it will provide maintenance services to the budget airline’s ATR 72-600 planes’ engine fleet, to be used for regional operations. <\/p>\n
The two partners signed the pact in August, P&W said in a statement today. <\/p>\n
The ‘Fleet Management Program’ (FMP) maintenance contract with IndiGo for PW127M engines, that will power the airline’s new fleet of ATR72-600 aircraft serving regional routes in India, will be in place for 10 years from the date of each engine’s entry into service, and it can be extended further, Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) said in a statement.<\/p>\n
P&WC is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp of the US.<\/p>\n
“This FMP will provide IndiGo with hands-on support as the engines progressively enter into service on the airline’s new ATR72-600 fleet. IndiGo also chose to equip each of its new aircraft with our FAST (flight, acquisition, storage and transmission) prognostics solution,” P&WC’s vice president for regional airlines, Frederic Lefebvre, said. <\/p>\n
The FAST is helping regional airlines around the world maximise aircraft availability, achieve compliance with their maintenance requirements and optimise their maintenance scheduling, he added.<\/p>\n
Tailored specifically to IndiGo, the FMP plan will provide customised support to meet the company s technical and commercial needs, the statement said.<\/p>\n
“IndiGo is a key operator for P&WC in India and the Asia Pacific market in general. This FMP agreement allows us to take a larger profile in India’s growing aviation industry. We are committed to making the debut of our PW127M engine with IndiGo s fleet, giving them the outstanding maintenance solutions,” Lefebvre said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Global engine maker Pratt & Whitney (P&W) today said it has entered into an agreement with IndiGo under which it will provide maintenance services to the budget airline’s ATR 72-600 planes’ engine fleet, to be used for regional operations. The two partners signed the pact in August, P&W said in a statement today. The ‘Fleet Management Program’ (FMP) maintenance contract with IndiGo for PW127M engines, that will power the airline’s new fleet of ATR72-600 aircraft serving regional routes in India, will be in place for 10 years from the date of each engine’s entry into service, and it can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}