New Hyderabad airport awards in-flight catering contracts

New Delhi, Sep 17 (UNI) GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), which is developing a world-class international airport at Shamshabad near Hyderabad, has entered into two in-flight catering concessional agreements with LSG Sky Chef and Sky Gourmet.

The contracts envisage setting up of world-class in-flight catering units in the upcoming international airport.

LSG Sky Chef is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and the world's largest provider of airline catering and in-flight solution.

It caters to 270 airlines from 190 customer service centres in 49 countries. It produces around 369 million airline meals per year. In India, it is currently operating in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Sky Gourmet Catering operates under the trade name of skygourmet and is one of the leading airline catering companies in India with operations spread across Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune.

It has partnered with leading carriers such as Jet Airways in Mumbai and Kingfisher Airlines across the country, as well as with Malaysian Airlines to give air travelers high standards of in-flight cuisine. It is now set to expand its network to other metro airports.

The in-flight catering concessions involve financing, constructing, operating and maintaining in-flight kitchen facilities for catering to the in-flight kitchen services at GHIAL. Both the in-flight catering units will have an initial capacity of around 7,500 meals each per day.

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