Bhadra’s outstanding performance and capabilities in Handling Extraordinary Large size and Heavy shipments on flights at Chennai, Kolkata and Southern Indian Airports

Bhadra International in a short span of time has established their leadership in handling extraordinary large size and Heavy shipments of consignments on a regular basis at Chennai and Kolkata Airports. This has given a very big relief to prestigious Airlines like Lufthansa, Korean Air and Air China operating at Chennai Airports.

The recent example is the consignment  that came with extraordinary large size over hang (Big) shipment of  20,800kgs capacity  having  Dimension 1317 x 64 x 44 which was handled with utmost precision and  unloaded through Nose door o/b KE381/21Oct12 ICN/MAA using 2 X Main deck Treple Loaders. Such a handling has now become a regular feature on most of these flights operated by above Carriers at the Chennai Airport.

The multiple freighter flights were handled simultaneously carrying heavy consignments. In one of the flight, a power project equipment, being a single piece weighing 52 tons was offloaded on 96 wheels trailers operated at Kolkata Airport is another example of its kind. The entire logistic provided by Bhadra International was a classic example of out of the ordinary Ground handling in Indian Aviation Industry.

The complexity  in handling such Large size and Heavy shipments by  taking every care in safety of Aircraft, personnel and Consignment on every flight has been simplified  due to the excellent skills of well-trained manpower available with Bhadra operating the world class Ground Handling equipments at above Airports. In fact  Bhadra is the only Ground Handling Agency that has the highest payload capacity of 35 ton main deck Treple Loaders in their fleet at their Airports which has increased the uplift capacity of all the freighter Carriers served by Bhadra International at above Airports.

Bhadra International has set an example with its expertise of handling large size and Heavy shipments giving total comfort to these esteemed Carriers meeting their expectations to their entire satisfactions.

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Bhadra’s Solution Tool For 100% On Time Performance Lies in Excellent Maintenance Workshop Facilities

Precision and highly professional practices are a must in every field of aviation including the Ground Handling practices and equipment used for that purpose.  Any step-up in this field can cause colossal damage including lying off the aircraft for long durations.  The importance attached to this fact by Bhadra, the company that provides state-of-art Ground Handling Services can be gauged by the fact that the company has gone ahead and created the maintenance workshop, a first of this kind in India to be set up by a Ground handling Company, incurring an expenditure of Rs 50 crores approx.  The maintenance workshop hangar has been erected meeting all apron parameters. 

The Bhadra’s workshop caters to maintaining the ground handling equipments in excellent condition so that the customer airlines are not deprived of quality and on time services, which has been one of the strong points of Bhadra to its customer airlines.  The workshop has a huge working area and is fully equipped with modern maintenance tools and accessories. The workshop is eco friendly and has natural lighting facility with air circulators on the roof top.  It must be reiterated that the state-of-art environment friendly ground handling equipment pressed into service by the company is yielding excellent results apart from on time performance.

Bhadra’s workshop derives its strength, from a well experienced maintenance team consisting of industry specialists and supported by a team of highly trained technicians who are extremely capable of maintaining the equipments, in tune with the operating schedule of the airlines that are handled by Bhadra. The Customer airlines of Bhadra have appreciated and made it a point to give credence to these excellent workshop facilities that have been created while conducting their mandatory audit before signing the SGH Agreement. This has been one of the hall marks of Bhadra maintaining 100% on time performance of aircraft handling at the Airports for which the licence has been awarded to the company. 

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA’S POLICY ON AIRCRAFT GROUND HANDLING SERVICES AT AIRPORTS IN INDIA

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 18^th 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 12^th 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 30^th October at Chennai and the Dragon Airlines beginning November 2^nd 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.

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            “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”.

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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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AIRCRAFT GROUND HANDLING SERVICES AT AIRPORTS IN INDIA SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS OF BHADRA INTERNATIONAL

Aircraft Ground Handling Services, specially on the apron side play a pivotal role in the efficient turn round operations of the aircraft at the subject airport.  Prior to the stringent implementation of current Ground Handling Regulations as promulgated by our Parliament through Gazette Notification a few years ago, India though geographically well located was being denied its fair share of Air-traffic.  Most airlines and operators were over flying our skies as the Ground Handling Operations at our airports were outdated and not in keeping with the international standards. In fact, allowing each of the airlines to carry out self handling had lead to mushrooming of Ground Handling Service Providers who used prehistoric equipment, half baked part time operators to cut costs. The events of 9/11 in US further exposed serious security lacunae at our airports. The situation ever since the implementation of current Regulations has brought in a sea change apart from ensuring enhanced security at our sensitive airports.

The number of Ground Handling Service Providers has now been limited and Bhadra International India Limited as one of the concessionaires is making a major contribution in the field.  Having commenced operations at airports in South India and Kolkata over two years ago, Bhadra has earned for itself a professional reputation par excellence.  All this has been possible because the company has imported the most modern state of art environment friendly equipment at huge capital investment of over $ 150 million.  The company has on its pay roll over 2500 well trained, highly motivated fulltime bonafide security cleared dedicated employees who have brought laurels to the company by ensuring “on time performance”. Its equipment inventory boasts of passenger buses from Cobus, Trepel Cargo Loader, Rheinmetall Air Start Units, Air-conditioning Units manufactured by TLD France as also Ground Power Units from Hitzinger , etc. to name a few.

The passenger friendly services being rendered by the company are already attracting and adding to the company’s long list of client Airlines. With Bhadra, Indian Aviation has certainly made a mark and come of age.