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Mahindra Aerospace & Canada’s Viking Air to form strategic alliance to help boost India's regional air connectivity

Mahindra Aerospace & Canada’s Viking Air to form strategic alliance to help boost India's regional air connectivity

Mahindra Aerospace (Mahindra Aerospace) and Canada’s Viking Air (Viking) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a strategic alliance to support and take advantage of India’s growing regional air connectivity opportunities. The MOU was signed during the on-going visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to India.
 
India’s diverse market landscape offers numerous options for Viking and Mahindra Aerospace to leverage their unique and complementary resources for a mutually beneficial collaboration to develop regional air transportation solutions.
 
Under this alliance, Mahindra Aerospace and Viking will work together to support each other’s non-competing aircraft business to boost market penetration in identified territories and provide potential customers with multiple options based on specific operational requirements.
 
Viking produces the Twin Otter Series 400, a world-renowned, versatile, 19-passenger, twin-engine utility turboprop aircraft that is capable of operating from multiple surfaces (including water). Mahindra Aerospace produces the 8-seat utility piston aircraft, the Mahindra Airvan 8, and the 10-seat turboprop utility aircraft, the Mahindra Airvan 10 and will in due course also launch these aircraft in Ski and Float versions The combined range of the 8-, 10- and 19-seat wheeled and float-equipped aircraft offered by Viking and Mahindra Aerospace provides several solutions especially well-suited to India’s varied geography, operating conditions, and regional connectivity requirements.
 
SP Shukla, Group President - Aerospace, Defence and Steel, Mahindra Group and Chairman- Mahindra Aerospace said, "We value our alliance with Viking and are confident that the Viking Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft and our 8- and 10-seat Mahindra Airvan will offer a unique product portfolio to customers across various geographies. In India, this portfolio can address the much needed requirements of regional connectivity, where this range of aircraft offers a very suitable solution and desired boost to the UDAN scheme introduced by the Government of India."
 
David Curtis, President & CEO of Viking Air Ltd., commented, "Viking sees enormous market potential for the Series 400 Twin Otter in India, with a particular emphasis on the seaplane variant as it provides an unmatched transportation solution for servicing India’s thousands of kilometers of coastline and river systems. We are confident that our alliance with Mahindra Group, such a well-established and well-regarded company, will provide the necessary traction the Series 400 deserves in India and will offer us new possibilities to collaborate in other territories as well."
 
Arvind Mehra, Executive Director & CEO, Mahindra Aerospace said, "Viking and Mahindra Aerospace have a natural fit when it comes to the supplying utility aircraft in point-to-point connectivity. These products complement each other well and offer our customers a wide choice depending on the size and scale of their operations. We are sure this is just a beginning and can open up many other opportunities for collaboration, including product development and support."
 
@EPC World Media
 
 
 
 



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