SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 03-15

Issue Features

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  REGIONAL AVIATION | Trends
  Rise of The Middle Class
  By R. Chandrakanth

  Increasing trade and the emergence of middle classes in Asia, Latin America and Africa are driving the need for greater connectivity within these regions...

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  POLICY | Viewpoint
  Indian Civil Aviation under Modi Government
  By B.K. Pandey

  The Indian civil aviation industry needs decisive and concerted action by the government if it has to be extricated from the morass that it has descended into

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  POLICY | Viewpoint
  Mixed Performance of Modi Government
  By R. Chandrakanth

  Even though the Ministry of Civil Aviation has shown lot more proactiveness in one year, one still gets the feeling that it is difficult to cut through the bureaucratic babudom

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  SPECIAL FEATURE | A380
  10 Down, 40 To Go

  The Chief Operating Officer (Customers) of Airbus, John Leahy, is the quintessential marketing executive.

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  SPECIAL FEATURE | A380
  Score of 10
  By R. Chandrakanth

  Ten years after its launch, the A380 has established itself as the world’s favourite Very Large Aircraft (VLA) having a 90 per cent share of the VLA market

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  AIR SHOW | Preview
  Iconic Show
  By R. Chandrakanth

  France expects a record number of visitors and exhibitors at the Paris Air Show that has both military and civil components, the latter always hogging the limelight with announcements of mega deals

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  MRO | Asia
  Huge Market for MRO in Asia
  By R. Chandrakanth

  It is estimated that there are over 80 MRO entities in South East Asia, with Singapore leading the charts

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  INFRASTRUCTURE | Regional Airports
  Aviation Infrastructure in Tier-II and Tier-III Cities
  By A.K. Sachdev

  Growing realisation of the importance of regional and remote area connectivity, and the instatement of a reform-oriented government has encouraged hope that aviation infrastructure in Tier-II and Tier-III cities will receive attention.

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  FINALLY
  Out of the Woods!
  By B.K. Pandey

  The Minister of Civil Aviation P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju has issued a number of directives to Air India for it to recover from the humongous losses the airline had accumulated