SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 01-18

Issue Features

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  INDUSTRY | REGULATIONS
  Indian Civil Aviation Industry — Corrections Needed
  By B.K. Pandey

  With the potential for growth in the Indian civil aviation industry being high, there is a need to take corrective steps to ensure its vibrant and dynamic growth

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  INDUSTRY | REGULATIONS
  The Necessity of Slot Coordination
  By Alexandre de Juniac

  Right now, IATA is working with our counterpart organisation Airports Council International and the Slot Coordinator community, on a major modernisation programme

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  TECHNOLOGY | BIO FUELS
  Bio-Fuel Technology — Future of Power
  By A.K. Sachdev

  With the growing alarm and awareness of depleting fossil fuels and concerns regarding the environment, the market for alternative fuels for the aviation industry is expected to grow significantly

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  REGIONAL AVIATION | CONNECTIVITY
  UDAN Enters Cruise Mode
  By Joseph Noronha

  The credibility of UDAN is now fairly well established and once Round Two is implemented, it will add about five per cent to the total passenger trips in the country

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  UNION BUDGET
  

  STOP PRESS

  UDAN scheme gets a major push in the Union Budget 2018-19
  By Arpita Kala

  While Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha had declared the Union Budget 2018-19 as a ‘political document’, some of the plans mentioned in the fiscal budget may bode well for Indian aviation especially for the UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme.

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  REGIONAL AVIATION | RCS
  UDAN-II Takes-off, Big Boost to Regional Conectivity
  By Rohit Srivastava

  With addition of heli-services in the scheme, UDAN is going to make journeys to the hills much faster and comfortable

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  CREW | PILOTS
  A Concrete Step to Address Pilot Shortage
  By John Slattery

  The airline industry offers tremendous opportunity and job security for pilots, especially with such robust growth in air travel projected over the next twenty years

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  MRO | BUSINESS
  Business Scope for Civil MRO in India
  By Sukhchain Singh

  It is expected that approximately 10,000 aircraft would be in service in the region by 2035, creating an opportunity for the major MRO players in the region

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  MRO | BUSINESS JETS
  Opportunities for Business Jets and MRO Companies
  By Zorawar Singh Jaiswal

  Facts and the subsequent analyses provide useful insights for business jet owners and Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) service providers to discover where new business opportunities lie

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  FINALLY
  Saras Airborne Again!
  By B.K. Pandey

  Nine years after the fatal accident that paralysed the project, the Saras got airborne once again and rekindled hope of revival of the indigenous civil aircraft programme

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  NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner Next-Gen Platform

  In the third week of January this year, Boeing unveiled the largest variant of the 787-10 Dreamliner, a next generation platform. The aircraft was awarded an Amended Type Certificate (ATC) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Ground Handling by Private Carriers Permitted

  Since the end of last year, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has permitted Indian carriers in the private sector to carry out ground handling at airports for their flights in the domestic segment.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Parliamentary Panel Castigates Airlines

  In a scathing report released in the beginning of this year, the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture of the Indian Parliament has castigated the domestic carriers for overpricing of tickets...

• NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Airlines and Airports: Toppers in Performance

  Three of India’s low-cost carriers (LCC), IndiGo, AirAsia India and SpiceJet feature as India’s most punctual airlines in the OAG’s Punctuality League 2018. The airports at Chennai, Hyderabad and New Delhi...

• NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Indian Airline Industry in 2017

  The Indian airline industry reached a new high by flying ten crore passengers in 2017. The industry will be keenly watching the developments on Air India in 2018 and how much money the government would earn through disinvestment.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE FINANCE
  Profitability of IndiGo Airlines

  Analysts expect the country’s largest domestic carrier IndiGo Airlines to post between 20 and 29 per cent revenue growth in third quarter of FY18 on a year-on-year basis.

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  NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE FINANCE
  Financial State of AirAsia India

  Amar Abrol MD and CEO of Bengalurubased no-frills carrier AirAsia India has said that the airline is looking to break even by December 2018 or early next year. The budget carrier will be completing four years in June 2018.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | AIRLINE FINANCE
  Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Air India

  In the second week of January this year, the Government issued a statement which said “It has now been decided to do away with this restriction and allow foreign airlines...

• NEWS IN BRIEF | REGIONAL AVIATION
  Viability Gap Funding for UDAN

  Terming the government’s regional air connectivity scheme UDAN a big success, Spice-Jet chief Ajay Singh has said the airline has not taken the viability gap funding (VGF) so far as the routes operated by it under the scheme are financially viable on their own.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  ATR makes its comeback to the us

  ATR announces its first deal of 2018 which sees the introduction of the ATR -600 series in the US, to be operated by Silver Airways. The airline will introduce 20 ATR -600 aircraft into its fleet, of which 16 will be ATR 42-600s and four will be ATR 72-600s.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  S$2.8bn Contracts for St Engg’s Aerospace Arm During 2017

  Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) announced that its aerospace arm, Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (ST Aerospace) secured new contracts worth about S$510m in the fourth quarter...

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Boeing, Adient launch new company to design and build airplane seats

  Boeing and Adient announced the formation of Adient Aerospace, a joint venture that will develop, manufacture and sell a portfolio of seating products to airlines and aircraft leasing companies.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  CFM concludes $9.1 billion agreements

  In conjunction with French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to China, CFM International concluded agreements and Memorandums of Understanding for new engine orders and long-term support agreements covering nearly 500 CFM engines.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Boeing Unveils New Unmanned Cargo Air Vehicle Prototype

  Boeing unveiled a new unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) cargo air vehicle (CAV) prototype that will be used to test and evolve Boeing’s autonomy technology for future aerospace vehicles.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Drones to Decongest Cities

  Addressing the Techfest organised by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay at the end of last year, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said the government is working on bringing in regulations...

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Record Delivery of Airliners by Boeing

  The US aerospace giant Boeing has set a new record for the number of aircraft delivered in a year by surpassing its 2015 record of 762 deliveries by one. The company also grew its order backlog to a record 5,864 aircraft.

• NEWS IN BRIEF | INFRASTRUCTURE
  Passenger Traffic at Bengaluru Airport

  Annual passenger traffic through Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) at Bengaluru, crossed 25 million last year. In India, this volume of passenger traffic is experienced only at the international airports at Delhi and Mumbai.

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  A Word from Editor
  By B.K. Pandey

  In recent times, the Indian civil aviation industry has been much in the news and for all the right reasons. This segment which has a vital role to play in the national economic growth, has been the focus of the NDA government since it came to power in 2014.