Guwahati: M Suresh has joined as the new Regional Executive Director (RED) of Airports Authority of India (AAI) North Eastern Headquarters. Prior to this assignment, he was serving as General Manager (CNS-OM) at Regional Headquarter (RHQ) of the same organisation.
Suresh has served as the Airport Director of Goa International Airport (Goa), Jammu and Madurai Airports. He ensured real-time sharing of flight movements with Defence ATC, PBN based RNAV-1, SIDS and STARS for the first time in the Defence Airports in India / Asia Pacific Region at Dabolim Airport, Goa. He was widely commended for quick repairing work in the depressed portion of the Jammu Airport runway.
Suresh is an Engineering Graduate in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Madurai Kama University, Madurai in 1990 and with Master of Business Administration (HR) from University of Madras. He also holds International Airport Professional- IAP degree (2013) accorded by Airports Council International and International Civil Aviation Organisation.
Suresh is an Air-Navigation-service technical expert and has vast experience of over a quarter-century in planning, provision, operation & maintenance of CNS facilities, airport system facilities & information technology facilities in airports in India. He is instrumental in the implementation of NOCAS Version-2, the Building Height Clearance Software for the public, SKY REV 360, NIC CPPP Training Programme and Implementation of Biometric Access Control project in AAI and many such initiatives.
AAI's North East Region is considered to be one of the hard and difficult regions to work with due to its geographical conditions, heavy rains and uncertain weather conditions which poses a challenge to flight schedules. In a statement, AAI said that Suresh is very optimistic about improving Airport infrastructure in NER airports with the cooperation and support of all stakeholders.
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