We are designing, building and leading global aviation,” Naidu said, placing the day’s announcements within a wider push to move the country from a large market to a global aviation power. Air India also signed a multi-year agreement with Boeing Global Services for its Component Services Programme covering its Boeing 787 fleet, including aircraft on order. Bhatti placed Telangana’s aviation growth within investments made in undivided Andhra Pradesh between 2004 and 2014, when the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport was conceived. Bhatti said Hyderabad airport already operated on 100 per cent renewable energy and followed a net-zero roadmap. “The future of aviation will be green,” he said, while noting that training institutions and industry partnerships mattered because “runways do not fly.