{"id":71089,"date":"2026-08-12T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/71089\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:18:46","slug":"lufthansa-technik-eyes-bengaluru-for-expansion-patil-pitches-states-aerospace-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/71089\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Technik eyes Bengaluru for expansion; Patil pitches state\u2019s aerospace ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Industry#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/lufthansa-technik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lufthansa Technik<\/a>, the aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) arm of Germany\u2019s Lufthansa Group, is evaluating Bengaluru for expanding its operations, Industries Minister M.B. Patil said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Patil said this after meeting a delegation led by <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Industry#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/marcel-pastuska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marcel Pastuska<\/a>, CEO, Lufthansa Technik Services India (Bengaluru). Annett Baessler, deputy consul general of Germany in Bengaluru, also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the delegation was briefed on Bengaluru\u2019s <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Industry#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/aviation-ecosystem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">aviation ecosystem<\/a>, international air connectivity, <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Industry#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/skilled-talent-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">skilled talent pool<\/a>, R&amp;D capabilities and engineering expertise, as well as Karnataka\u2019s aerospace and defence ecosystem and investor-friendly policies.<br \/>The state government will work with <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#Industry#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/invest-india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Invest India<\/a> and other stakeholders to advance the company\u2019s investment proposal, Patil said. If finalised, the investment could further strengthen Karnataka\u2019s position as a hub for aerospace and defence manufacturing and services.<\/p>\n<p>Lufthansa Technik\u2019s delegation also included Julia Schmidt, strategy manager, Lufthansa Technik, Hamburg; Philipp Jessel, senior manager, corporate strategy, Hamburg; and Jayant Singh, area development manager, Asia Pacific, Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Lufthansa Technik, the aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) arm of Germany\u2019s Lufthansa Group, is evaluating Bengaluru&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21169],"tags":[52715,52718,52714,52720,52719,52717,52716,1678,21606,52721,52722],"class_list":["post-71089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lufthansa","tag-aircraft-maintenance-and-repair","tag-aviation-ecosystem","tag-bengaluru-aerospace","tag-engineering-expertise-in-india","tag-germany-aerospace-investment","tag-invest-india","tag-karnataka-defence-ecosystem","tag-lufthansa","tag-lufthansa-technik","tag-marcel-pastuska","tag-skilled-talent-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}