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GMR Aviation Academy is global training hub

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. (GHIAL) and Airports Council International (ACI World) Geneva, have signed an agreement to appoint GMR Aviation Academy as a Global Training Hub for the Asia Pacific region.

The agreement was signed here on Saturday by Kiran Kumar Grandhi, Business Chairman, Airports, GMR Group, and Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World.

Accordingly, the GMR Aviation Academy will facilitate ACI’s training opportunities that help develop managerial and operational standards and spread knowledge of best practices through out the world’s airports.

GHIAL CEO P. Sripathy said that other such training hubs within Asia Pacific were located at Dubai in the UAE, Incheon in South Korea and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The GMR Aviation Academy would provide an ideal training venue for professionals from India and also from those in the SAARC countries. ACI World has 1,700 member airports. ACI global training was established to make training opportunities more accessible and help develop managerial and operational standards at its member airports worldwide., said Ms. Angela Gittens.

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