Air India will open a mega warehouse at Delhi airport to store more than 1 million spare parts.

The 54,000 sqft. (5,016 sqm) facility will integrate 16 smaller warehouses scattered across Delhi and Mumbai to house spare parts for maintenance, checks and repairs of its aircraft and ground support equipment for Air India, Air India Express and AIX Connect.

Air India chief executive officer Campbell Wilson says: “The warehouse will offer us more proximate access to and better control over our aircraft spares enabling us to meet any engineering requirement promptly - leading to improved punctuality of flights.”

The integrated warehouse will serve as a one-stop solution for storing aircraft spares, tools and ground support equipment ranging from hardware to sophisticated and complex avionics, hydraulics, structural, pneumatic and mechanical components.

The new facility will be located near Terminal 3 in the cargo complex of Delhi Airport's Air Cargo Logistics division.