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BY A CORRESPONDENT
July 25, 2006

US-based Honeywell International has secured the contract to supply Air Deccan with air safety equipment. The low-cost airline's 67 aircraft will receive avionics and auxiliary power units (APUs) from the $28 billion company. Air Deccan can now have a common configuration for its sixty directly purchased aircraft and seven leased A320s.

Captain Gopinath, MD, Air Deccan, said, "This partnership is born out of Honeywell's superior technology and its range of solutions on offer coupled with a long-term commitment to Air Deccan. The strategic relation will thus make air travel affordable and safe." According to the terms of the contract, the technology conglomerate will be delivering the avionics equipment and APUs once Air Deccan's phased aircraft deliveries commence, from 2006 to 2011.

The systems Air Deccan will be acquiring from Honeywell include the 131-9[a] APU and full avionic suite consist of enhanced ground proximity warning system airborne collision avoidance system, weather radar, solid state flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorders, quantum tm line communications & navigation system and air data inertial reference system.

In addition, Honeywell's Repair Centre in Singapore will also support an APU maintenance agreement that Air Deccan has entered into. Garrett Mikita, vice-president, Airlines, Honeywell, said, "This tie-up will benefit Air Deccan with world-class equipment, optimised inventory management and predictable maintenance costs."

Air Deccan, which operates 265 flights every day, had sent a team comprising of Warwick Brady, COO, G Mohan Kumar, CFO and Ryan Goveas, head, Engineering, to evaluate Honeywell's selection.