Airport staff from Oman start training at GMR academy

The GMR-run GMR Aviation Academy (GMRAA) has started imparting training to the first batch of trainees from the Oman Airport Management Company (OAMC) under a bilateral agreement.
The first batch of trainees from OAMC, which reached India recently, has commenced its two-week training, GMR group said in a release.
GMR Airport Developer Ltd (GADL), a subsidiary of the Bengaluru-based GMR Infrastructure Ltd, had in June signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OAMC to provide services ranging from programme management, testing and commissioning of airport systems to development of aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenue streams to the Oman Airport staff.
A 22-member team from OAMC is presently undergoing a specially-designed course on airfield rescue and firefighting at GMRAA, Hyderabad, which will be followed by another training session at the company academy in Delhi, it said. After completion of the course, the batch would return to Oman, it added.

"GMR has been engaging with and offering consultancy services to airport companies in the Middle East and South East Asia. We are happy that the process of training OAMC staff has started at our aviation academy.
"This training will help OAMC teams to learn and adopt some of the best practices of GMR's Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, and Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad," a GADL spokesperson said.

GMRAA is one of the few academies in the world to have received the coveted Regional Training Centre of Excellence (RTCE) certification.
As part of the agreement, a total of six to 10 batches, each consisting of 16 to 22 trainees will undergo training, which would cover firefighters from all the four airports in Oman -- Muscat, Salalah, Sohar and Duqm.

As per the MoU, the GMR subsidiary would also provide on- site support for six months at Salalah Airport, which will help the OAMC team learn and adopt some of the best practices of Delhi and Hyderabad airports, the company said.
GMRAA has earlier provided training and consultancy to airport management teams in the Philippines as well.