Air Deccan, India’s fastest growing low cost airline, has bagged a contract to handle engineering line maintenance and flight release of Singapore Airlines at Hyderabad international Airport.

Air Deccan which has 19% market share in the country is poised to overtake Indian Airlines in terms of market share by the end of this fiscal year by flying over eight million passengers. Currently Indian Airlines holds 21% of the market share.

Air Deccan is already handling the engineering and flight release of KLM Airlines at Hyderabad. Air Deccan COO Warwick Brady said, “We were selected by KLM and Singapore Airlines to conduct their transit and overnight checks after they did a full audit on our facility at Hyderabad and found that we are European International standards complaint.”

Air Deccan M D Captain G R Gopinath said the airline is pulling out all stops to pull all its resources and energy in engineering maintenance, infrastructure and operations. The airline end has acquired 70,000 sq feet of land at Chennai International airport where a world class hangar is being constructed. The airline will also commence simulator pilot training at Bangalore which will commence during next May-June. Contracts for acquiring simulators from CAE of Canada who will be supplying both ATR and Airbus simulators have been signed.

Brady said that the airline has improved its flight operations achieving 85% on time performance (with a maximum of 15 minutes delay) and 98% of the flights had departures with a maximum delay of one hour. This remarkable progress has taken place over a period of just two months.

Source: Times of India