Mumbai: Air India Engineering Co, the hived off engineering unit of state-owned national flag carrier Air India, will be operational and start taking up maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) work from November this year, The Economic Times reported. The engineering unit will take up maintenance and repair work for its parent carrier as also other airlines. But unlike earlier Air India will now have to pay for the services. "A fully-owned subsidiary of Air India for engineering alone will allow quick decision-making required for engineering jobs, which an airline's board might not be quick to take," Sanjeev Rotkar, executive director, MRO, special business division at Air India, was quoted by ET as saying. It should be noted that in April this year the Government approved the airline's proposal to spin off its MRO unit and engineering services into two wholly-owned subsidiaries. Because of the hiving off, around 19,000 of the 33,000 employees of Air India moved to these two new units.
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