Jet Airways has set up a hangar in Mumbai for its fleet of Boeing and ATR aircraft.

The hangar, which can accommodate two Boeing Aircraft 737-series and one ATR aircraft at any given time, costs $15 million.

The hangar is equipped with workshops for taking care of independent modules such as avionics, hydraulic, composite panel repair, furnishing, seat repair and a wheels-and-brake shop. Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 44 Boeing aircraft, three airbus A340-300E, one Airbus A330-200 aircraft and eight ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft.

In-flight Entertainment

The airline on Monday unveiled 'Sky Screen', a new in-flight entertainment system envisaging on-demand audio and video entertainment.

It will deploy the new system in its new Boeing 737-800 aircraft that it took delivery of at Seattle on August 31.

The aircraft will be operating daily on the Mumbai-Hyderabad, Mumbai-Bangalore and Mumbai-Delhi routes.

Speaking to newspersons, Mr Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, the airline's CEO, said that the company planned to have this system installed in most of the 10 aircraft it would acquire within the next 12 months.

The aircraft will have nine-inch video monitors mounted with touch screens in the Club Premiere segment and a seven-inch touch screen monitor at the back of every seat in economy class.

"These individual LCD screens are currently the biggest in the Indian skies and equipment for over 100 hours of audio and video programmes from Hollywood and Bollywood."

To a question, he said that the airline would not charge anything extra from passengers for the new entertainment system.

Photograph: Mr Wolfgang Prockschauer (right), CEO, Jet Airways, and Mr Gaurang Shetty, Vice-President Marketing, at a press conference in Mumbai on Monday. Photographer: Paul Noronha