Aircraft Ground Handling Services at airports
in India has undergone major changes and made rapid improvements in the recent
past consequent to the promulgation of the Gazette Notification that came into
force effective 18th October,2007. These Regulations cover the
entire spectrum of Ramp & Traffic Handling that covers Marshalling,
Parking, Starting, Mooring of Aircraft as well as its cleaning, loading /
unloading apart from Cargo Handling, Passenger and baggage handling, Cargo
etc.. As these regulations make it mandatory for the authorized service
provider to use only the latest
state-of-art equipment and deployment of wholetime bonafide employees, the
standards of Ground Handling at Indian airports has already shown signs of
great improvements and is now comparable to international standards and
practices.
Amongst the latest awardees of Ground Handling Services is Bhadra International
who are providing these services at Chennai, Kolkata and all other airports in Southern
Region of the country. It’s achievements in such a short span of time reveal
that it has earned enormous praises from its client airlines. Some typical
examples of its recent activities are worth noting.
As
recently as the 12th October, Bhadra
International commenced its quality professional Ground Handling services
for Oman Air Flights at Chennai and Calicut airports. This commencement came as
Bhadra International braced
itself to also provide these world class professional Ground Handling services
to Air Austral commencing 30th October at Chennai and the
Dragon Airlines beginning November 2nd at Kolkata.
Bhadra International
has also earned kudos for the successful commencement of operations for
Lufthansa and Korean Air Freighter Flight, the leaders in carrying freight and
freighter aircraft movements.
The
company is already serving all the recent entrants at Chennai Airport, rendering
total support in establishing new businesses of Air China and Hong Kong
Airlines. In fact, it is also admirably meeting the requirements of Gulf Air
who have doubled their number of weekly flights in the last six months.
On completion of recent Phase 1 of Haj Flights, the
Management of Saudi Arabian Airlines had the following to place on record.
Quote
“Alhamdullilah!
Hajj Phase I successfully and peacefully completed today 20 Oct. 12 at 1509
hours. We operated 30 Hajj charter
flights and carried a total of 8835 Hajj Pilgrims from Calicut embarkation
point during the period 06 Oct to 20 Oct 12.
Saudi Arabian Airlines would like to express its sincere
gratitude to Bhadra and its staff for the support and cooperation extended to
us during this period to ensure smooth Hajj handling. The service and
assistance rendered to Hajj pilgrims by your staff were well appreciated by
different agencies who were involved in this operations.
We request you to kindly convey our thanks to all your
staff concerned”.
Unquote
Bhadra and its contributions in enhancing Ground Handling
Services at Airports in India are making the Civil Aviation in India real
proud.
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