SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 02-16

Issue Features

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  REGIONAL AVIATION | E190-E2 ROLL OUT
  E190-E2 Rolls Out, Sets Benchmark
  By R. Chandrakanth

  With an investment of $1.7 billion, the E2 programme was launched in June 2013 and reinforces Embraer’s commitment to continuously invest in its commercial aviation products as well as maintain market leadership in the segment of 70 to 130 seats

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  AVIATION | POLICY
  Challenges for Indian Civil Aviation
  By Charles James Weir

  The Civil Aviation Policy must begin by looking at the regulatory and fiscal framework that would ensure that all stakeholders are aligned to enhance the two identified key issues of air safety and financial viability

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  POLICY | TAXATION
  Taxing Taxes
  By Nupur Sarraf

  A more enlightened and effective taxation policy can enable the Indian civil aviation industry soar to greater heights

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  INDUSTRY | AIRLINES
  Airline Business in India
  By B.K. Pandey

  Today, even while the percentage of India’s population travelling by air has gone up to nearly three, the level of penetration is still pitifully low

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  REGIONAL AVIATION | TRENDS
  Regional Aircraft Step Up
  By Joseph Noronha

  The next few years may see large-scale induction of smaller regional aircraft to replace existing fleets as well as to facilitate expansion of regional networks across the country

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  ENGINES | CFM LEAP
  This Year, It Is All About LEAP
  By R. Chandrakanth

  As the engine stands on the verge of entering commercial service later this year, the LEAP programme is delivering on all of its commitments. Adding fun to the leap year, CFM International ran trivia which had the twitterati busy for a while.

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  AIRPORTS | BUDGET TERMINALS
  Budget Airports – Are They Viable?
  By R. Chandrakanth

  In India, there is no exclusive budget airport catering to either LCCs or regional airlines, though there is a clamour in the major metro cities for secondary airports, firstly to decongest the main airport and secondly to give benefits to LCCs and regional carriers who are content with no-frills airports

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  HELICOPTERS | MARKET
  Vertical Lift
  By R. Chandrakanth

  Helicopters will be free to fly from point to point without prior air traffic control clearance in airspace below 5,000 feet and areas other than prohibited and restricted ones

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  MRO | TRENDS
  MRO: Time To Change Gears
  By A.K. Sachdev

  Regrettably, the MRO industry in India has had a stunted growth and is far from attaining the muscle and the vigour required to serve a civil aviation market

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  SHOW PREVIEW | INDIA AVIATION 2016
  Taking Stock
  By R. Chandrakanth

  The government has proposed to promote the growth of Indian aviation sector in a significant manner as the development of this sector has a multiplier effect on the economy

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  FINALLY
  Second Runway at KIA Bengaluru
  By B.K. Pandey

  While construction work for expansion of KIA in Phase-II is yet to commence, the airport is already bursting at the seams with burgeoning passenger traffic