Mangaluru International Airport Fuel Farm Business Head Pankaj Agrqawal palms over a memento to IndiGo 6e 554 flight captain Yateen Anant Pandit that grew to become the primary aircraft to refuel for its onward journey to Mumbai from the airport’s ‘Open Access’ Fuel Farm bowsers, in Mangaluru on December 16, 2023. Photo: Special Arrangement
Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on December 16 commissioned the ‘Open Access’ Fuel Farm and aircraft fuelling facility on the airport.
The facility contains new greenfield gasoline storage created by the airport, in addition to the present brownfield asset of an oil advertising firm (OMC) on the airport that MIA took over. The Fuel Farm facility is unfold throughout 5262.57 sq.m adjoining to the previous terminal constructing at Bajpe with a storage capability of 970 KL in six gasoline storage tanks, stated a launch in Mangaluru on December 17.
Bowsers of the airport Fuel Farm refuelled the primary flight underneath Open Access system — an IndiGo flight 6e554 that arrived from Mumbai within the early hours of December 17. Pankaj Agrawal, Business Head (Fuel Farm), Adani Airport Holdings Ltd. and Srikanth Tata, Head (Operations), MIA handed over a memento to flight captain Yateen Anant Pandit and to the bottom dealing with and engineering employees of the airline to mark the event.
The airport spokesperson stated, “Open access is a unique fuelling system at airports that provides a level-playing field to oil marketing companies. It leads to overall optimisation in jet fuel handling supply chain, removes entry barrier for a new oil marketer and thus widens the choice for the airline to select the OMC of their choice for refuelling. Overall open access system creates value for each stakeholder. Open access system is prevalent at all major airports in the country.”
He additional stated the airport is dedicated to offering high quality gasoline to the airways working from this facility and has put in place all preparations. Earlier, P. Sasikumaran Nair, Airport Terminal Manager of the OMC, handed over the symbolic key of the facility to Mr. Agrawal and Mr. Tata.
