SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 06-19

Issue Features

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  MRO | INDUSTRY
  Impetus Required for the Indian Aviation MRO Sector
  By Sukhchain Singh

  The MRO sector is a tough industry, is highly regulated, is all about flight safety and is thus very important as a sector of the Indian civil aviation industry

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  MRO | POLICY
  Correct Policy Imbalances
  By Bharat Malkani, Chairman & Managing Director - Max Aerospace and Aviation

  With airlines fleets in India set to more than double from 500 to 1,000 during the coming decade, supported by favourable government policies, the size of the Indian airline MRO Industry can grow from $1.4 billion to $5 billion with the potential direct employment growing to three lakh employees over the next decade

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  MRO | TECHNOLOGY
  Smart Warfighting Array of Reconfigurable Modules (SWARM) Technology in Aviation MRO
  By Sukhchain Singh

  The next generation of cloud solutions are here to help process data from predictive maintenance to in-flight performance and aging of the aircraft can be better tracked and understood

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  INDUSTRY | FORECAST
  Boeing Forecasts $770 Billion Civil Aviation Market in India over 20 Years
  By Vishal Thapar

  Indian demand for 2,380 new jet aircraft worth $330 Billion projected, but no plans to shift assembly lines out of US

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  INDUSTRY | FORECAST
  Boeing upbeat on Make in India and Futuristic Technologies

  Jayant Baranwal, Editor-in-Chief, SP’s AirBuz speaks to Salil Gupte, President Boeing India, and Darren Hulst, Sr. Managing Director, Market Analysis & Sales Support, Boeing Commercial Airplanes at the unveiling of Boeing’s “2019 India Commercial Market Outlook”

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  TRAINING | PRATT & WHITNEY
  P&W Inaugurates 100th eLearning Centre in India
  By SP’s Correspondent

  Pratt & Whitney’s sponsorship of eLearning Centers in Hyderabad and Vishakhapatnam builds on the efforts the company has made in India over the last decade to inspire the next generation of engineers

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  SHOW REPORT | DUBAI AIRSHOW 2019
  Middle-East Sky Painted in Colours of the Aviation Industry
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  Hosting over 84,000 visitors, Dubai Airshow’s 2019 edition successfully connected the aerospace industry amid significant innovation, discussion, exhibits, trade and much more

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  SHOW REPORT | DUBAI AIRSHOW 2019
  Aviation Leaders Come Together at the 2019 Dubai Airshow
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  Signing up for new aircraft to enhance the fleet, agreeing for better maintenance, and coming together to work better; many aviation leaders gain through trade during the Middle-Eastern airshow.

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  SHOW REPORT | DUBAI AIRSHOW 2019
  Peeking into the Times to Come for Aviation
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  Dubai Airshow 2019 shows how the future of the aviation industry will transform not just through unmanned passenger vehicles but also automation bots, counteractive systems, concepts and more

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  SHOW REPORT | DUBAI AIRSHOW 2019
  Clean, Blue Skies and Green Initiatives Gain Momentum
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  To answer environmental concerns in the aerospace industry, creative solutions and attempts find a way at the airshow to sustain a more eco-friendly aviation.

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  SHOW REPORT | DUBAI AIRSHOW 2019
  Business Aviation Exhibitors at the Airshow
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  In the benefit of the Middle East market, the business aviation industry also fetched time to take note of business aviation services

• SHOW REPORT | DUBAI AIRSHOW 2019
  Air Freight Industry to Comes into Focus With Cargo Connect
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  Cargo Connect returns for the third time in the airshow to bring the cargo and logistics supply chain sector together and pave the way for the cargo industry’s future

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  FINALLY
  New Dawn for Indo-Pak Cooperation in Civil Aviation
  By B.K. Pandey

  Finally, there are favourable signs of change in the Pakistani mindset that could herald a new era of cooperation between the civil aviation industry of India and Pakistan

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  NEWS BRIEFS
  Pratt & Whitney Honoured with Two Major Aviation Week Awards

  Pratt & Whitney President Bob Leduc has been honoured with Aviation Week’s “Lifetime Achievement” award. Aviation Week writes, “Leduc came out of retirement and used his leadership skills to shake up the corporate team and guide the PW1000G geared turbofan program through its challenging service introduction and production ramp-up and onto the road to success.”

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  NEWS BRIEFS
  Boeing 737 MAX 10 Makes its Debut

  Boeing marked a key milestone on November 22, as thousands of employees gathered for the debut of the first 737 MAX 10 at the company’s Renton, Washington factory.

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  NEWS BRIEFS
  Business Aviation: IBAC announces new Governing Board

  The International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) has announced its new Governing Board Executive Officers, selected at its 70th meeting following the Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas, U.S.A.

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  NEWS BRIEFS
  Airports Authority of India

  A high level Canadian delegation led by Nadir Patel, Ambassador of Canada in India visited Airports Authority of India Corporate Headquarters along with Andrew Smith, Minister (Commercial), Viney Gupta, Trade Commissioner, High Commission of Canada and Senior officials from Bennett Jones LLP...

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  NEWS BRIEFS | AIRLINE NEWS
  SpiceJet to Set Up Joint Venture Airline in UAE

  In October this year, Ajay Singh Chairman and Managing Director of SpiceJet stated that his company will be setting up an airline at Ras Al Khaimah with a local partner and will have a 49 per cent shareholding in the joint venture (JV).

• NEWS BRIEFS | AIRLINE NEWS
  Qatar Air Interested in Buying Stake in IndiGo, Not Air India

  Gulf major Qatar Airways, is not interested in buying a stake in India’s national carrier Air India, which will be up for sale soon.

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  NEWS BRIEFS | AIRLINE NEWS
  Virgin Atlantic’s India Expansion

  Virgin Atlantic made its India debut in July 2000 when the airline launched its flight to New Delhi. Back then, Virgin Atlantic was a boutique airline fuelled by the ambitions of a maverick entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson.

• NEWS BRIEFS | AIRLINE FINANCE
  IndiGo Q1FY20 results

  In the last week of October this year, IndiGo Airlines reported its Q2FY20 results reflecting a loss of Rs. 1,062 crore as against a profit of Rs. 1,203 crore in the previous quarter.

• NEWS BRIEFS | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Japan to Enhance Capabilities of Manufacturing Aircraft

  The Government of Japan is promoting technological cooperation between local industry and Boeing in aircraft electrification and high-rate composites manufacturing with the aim of expanding the country’s traditionally limited...

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  NEWS BRIEFS | INDUSTRY NEWS
  IndiGo Places Order for 300 Aircraft

  Low-cost carrier IndiGo has placed a firm order for 300 A320neo family aircraft. The order consists of the A320neo, A321neo and the new long range A321 XLR. The airline already operates the A320neo and the A321neo.

• NEWS BRIEFS | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Wide-Body Airliners for Indian Carriers

  The Indian airline industry is expanding, but the number of wide-body airliners has shrunk from 63 out of a total aircraft strength of 614 in 2018 to 43, a development is not in conformity with the global norm in which wide-body...

• NEWS BRIEFS | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Boeing Targets December for New MAX Deliveries

  Boeing believes it could resume deliveries of its grounded 737 MAX model as early as in December, according to a progress report released by the company on November 11 this year.

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  NEWS BRIEFS | INDUSTRY NEWS
  SpiceJet and Gulf Air Sign a Codeshare Agreement

  Indian budget carrier, SpiceJet and the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Gulf Air signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore greater cooperation between the two airlines.

• NEWS BRIEFS | REGULATORY AFFAIRS
  FAA Downgrades Malaysia’s Aviation Authority

  The FAA has downgraded the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia to a Category 2 rating, on the grounds that it “does not meet the safety standards laid down by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).”

• NEWS BRIEFS | TRAINING
  BAA Training China

  On October 25, 2019, following the Joint Venture agreement between Avia Solutions Group and Henan Civil Aviation Development and Investment Company signed in July, 2019, construction of BAA Training China...

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  NEWS BRIEFS | ROTARY WING
  Helicopters for the Urban Air Mobility Market

  The development of electric and hybrid VTOL (eVTOL) aircraft around the world promises to usher in a new era of aerial mobility, changing the cost of access to vertical flight and potentially opening new markets.

• NEWS BRIEFS
  Appointments

  With effect from November 1, 2019, Eric Segura, 55, has been nominated SVP Procurement and Supply Chain of ATR, the world number one regional aircraft manufacturer.

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  A Word from Editor
  By B.K. Pandey, Editor

  An important Sector of the Indian civil aviation industry is its Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) segment which rather unfortunately in India, has not registered a growth rate that matches that of the industry.