Thiruvananthapuram International Airport TRV / VOTV

Passenger, ramp and apron handling (check-in support, baggage, marshalling, load control, pushback) for Air India Group and other scheduled carriers at TRV. Confirmed by three independent sources: AERA's own stakeholder-consultation tariff paper (aera.gov.in) frames its analysis as "the Tariff determination of AISATS providing Ground Handling Services at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport"; AISATS's own corporate site lists Thiruvananthapuram among its current operating stations (Bengaluru, Delhi, Noida, Hyderabad, Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram, Mangalore, Raipur, Ranchi); and a public review on the company's Thiruvananthapuram corporate-office listing states "Air India sats does ground handling for Thiruvananthapuram airport." Phone number independently confirmed via business-directory listing for the TRV corporate office (1st Floor Panachamoottil Square, Airport Rd, Vallakkadavu).

TRV commissioned an open-access aviation fuel farm and aircraft-refuelling facility on 16 Jul 2025, built by consolidating existing tankage/assets from multiple oil marketing companies onto shared pipelines and tanks so several OMCs can distribute Jet A-1 through common infrastructure; confirmed by The Hindu, Times of India, CentreForAviation/CAPA and Indian Infrastructure (all 16-17 Jul 2025). India's principal ATF suppliers nationally are IOCL, BPCL and HPCL, but no single into-plane agent was named for TRV in sources found, so the specific supplier identity remains unconfirmed. Indian Infrastructure reports plans for a dedicated jet fuel storage facility "within two years" of the July 2025 commissioning; Manorama Online separately describes this as including a future hydrant system. NOTE: the phone number previously drafted for this entry (•••) could not be independently verified — it closely resembles but does not match the airport's own published contact line (•••) and has been removed as likely erroneous rather than published as fact.

Transit/daily checks, defect rectification and AOG line support for Air India Group flights (and third-party carriers on request); upgraded from unconfirmed after aviationworld.in's 15-Jul-2025 report on the EASA Part-145 approval explicitly states the certification enables AIESL's Trivandrum facility "to conduct base and line maintenance on Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family aircraft," naming line maintenance alongside base maintenance directly.

FAA- and EASA-approved base-maintenance station for Boeing 737 and Airbus A319/A320/A321-family aircraft. AIESL's own "Our Presence" page lists Thiruvananthapuram as FAA approved ("B737 A/c & A319/A320/A321 A/c with its all attribute is FAA Approved") and states "EASA approval for Base Maintenance received by AIESL – Thiruvananthapuram" — the only EASA-listed station on that page. Independently corroborated by multiple July-Aug 2025 outlets (Times of India, Economic Times, aviationworld.in) reporting AIESL's Trivandrum facility received EASA Part-145 certification, the first in South India and only the second nationally, with a new/expanded hangar and wide-body plans announced.

Trivandrum-based flight-catering unit (registered office and kitchen at TC-34/757-1, Watts Lane, Shangumugham, Trivandrum, near TRV), part of the UDS Group (founded 1995, also runs Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel, Kovalam). USK's own site (udayskykitchen.com) describes it as "a full-fledged flight catering unit" and lists its airline customers by name: Maldivian (Island Aviation Services), Air India Ltd, Gulf Air ("standby for top-up"), and SpiceJet ("ground catering for delayed flights"), plus private-charter catering (Freedom Air Services, Falcon Aviation, Joy Jets and business jets). Contact phone/email confirmed directly from the operator's own site.

In-flight catering kitchen located on Airport Road, Eanchakkal, Thiruvananthapuram — the same locality as the airport — confirmed by two independent business-directory listings (IndianYellowPages, ExportersIndia) for in-flight catering services at that address. No operator-run website was located, so specific airline client list and volumes are not independently confirmed; per the drop rule, an unconfirmed licence/contract detail is not grounds to drop a genuinely-located provider.

Aircraft interior/cabin cleaning and UV-C disinfection are listed among AISATS's four core service lines (Passenger Handling, Apron Handling, Cargo Handling, Value Added Services incl. UV-C disinfection) company-wide, per aisats.in; unlike its cargo listing, which explicitly restricts cargo to only 3 of its 9 stations by name, AISATS does not scope cleaning/apron value-added services to specific stations, indicating this applies across all current stations including TRV. No TRV-specific cleaning contract document was separately located.

As the ramp/apron handler, AISATS necessarily operates and maintains the ground support equipment (tugs, belt loaders, GPUs, air-start units) used in its own TRV turnarounds; no separate third-party GSE lessor or maintenance company was identified for this station, so this is an inference from its confirmed handling role rather than a directly documented GSE contract.

Handles export air cargo at the TRV cargo terminal. AISATS's own services page states verbatim: "AISATS provides cargo services at Bengaluru, Delhi (Air India domestic cargo & cargo supervision) and Thiruvananthapuram (export cargo)" — confirmed via aisats.in and mirrored on its IndiaMART listing. Import/domestic cargo handling exists at the terminal (24x7 operations, RA-approved handlers per the airport's own cargo page) but the specific operator for that side was not separately named in sources found.

Statutory aviation security force (Ministry of Home Affairs, under BCAS regulatory oversight) providing passenger/baggage screening, access control and armed guarding at TRV. The airport operator's own security-guidelines page (thiruvananthapuram.adaniairports.com) states verbatim: "Security at the airport is managed by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), who are equipped with the latest Quick Reaction Team (QRT) vehicles, ensuring round-the-clock vigilance," and separately: "all X-ray Baggage Inspection Systems (XBIS) have been upgraded to Dual View." A TRV-specific facial-recognition deployment could not be independently confirmed (CISF's facial-recognition/NATGRID programme is reported as a 2026 nationwide rollout, not station-specific), so that detail has been removed pending confirmation.