Aircraft maintenance and overhaul is expected to get a big boost in 2007, with Boeing setting up maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities at Nagpur with an estimated investment of $100 million.
But it is the flip side of this growth which the government could do well to address in 2007. So, while it may allow more carriers to fly in Indian skies, severe congestion at major airports, prompting airlines to levy a ‘congestion surcharge’ and rising aviation turbine fuel costs would be the ghosts from the past which the government may need to get rid of this year.