SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 3-2021

Issue Features

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  APPOINTMENT | FELICITATIONS
  SP Guide Publications (SP’s) Welcome the new Union Cabinet Minister and the Minister of State for Civil Aviation

  We wish them the best for setting new milestones and series of successes in one of the most evolving sectors!

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  INNOVATIONS | FLYING CARS
  Flying Cars Ready For Drive
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  Flying cars do promise to cut the travel time, free us from the traffic woes, and certainly transform the way urban landscape looks

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  INNOVATIONS | NEXT GEN AIRLINERS
  Redesigning the Sky
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  The upcoming generation of aircraft is sure to look very different from what we presently witness, aiming for lighter, quieter, safer and more efficient aircraft

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  AIRLINES | OPERATIONS
  IndiGo Selects CFM’s LEAP-1A Engine & Services Agreement for A320neos
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  The engines have been selected to power the airline’s fleet of 310 new Airbus A320neo, A321neo, and A321XLR aircraft

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  ENGINES | TECHNOLOGY
  Growing Resolve to Go Green
  By Joseph Noronha

  If the various emerging avenues the aero-engine industry is determinedly pursuing – such as allelectric, hybrid and hydrogen propulsion succeed, air travel could change beyond recognition in a few decades

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  ENGINES | ENVIRONMENT
  Fuel Efficiency and Low Emissions: Responsible Aviation Missions
  By Isha Jaiswal

  The aviation sector contributes less than two per cent of the total global carbon emissions into the atmosphere, yet the industry has taken proactive steps to improve fuel efficiency and to reduce its carbon emission

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  INDUSTRY | FORECAST
  Boeing Says a 4-Fold Increase in Fleet over the Next 20 Years expected for India
  By Rohit Goel

  Boeing forecasts strong aviation growth in India due to the country’s growing economy and an expanding middle class, fueling demand for more than 2,200 new jets valued at nearly $320 billion over the next 20 years.

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  AIRLINES | OPERATIONS
  The New Normal
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  While uncertainty looms large over global travel’s restoration, the airline industry has to overcome the financial grievances as well as innovate for transforming consumer behavior

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  END | NOTE
  Jet Airways set to return to the skies
  By B.K. Pandey

  Financial troubles for Jet Airways began to increase during the decade and by 2018, mounting losses began to make things difficult for the airline

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  NEWS BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Tata Sons, Singapore Airlines to invest in Vistara

  The owners of Vistara Airlines namely Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines have together invested Rs 465 crore in the airline by issuing fresh shares into the airline, as per official documents collated by Tofler.

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  NEWS BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  GoAir rebrands as Go First after 15 years of flying

  After being in the skies for 15 years, Wadia Group-owned GoAir has rebranded itself as ‘Go First’ as the airline focuses on ultralow-cost business model while the aviation industry is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic.

• NEWS BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Jet Airways awaits NCLT clearance

  April 17, 2021 marked the end of second year since Jet Airways was grounded over multi-crore unpaid dues after 25 years of operations. On October 17, 2020, the Committee of Creditors had voted in favour of the consortium UAE based Kalrock Capital and Entrepreneur Murari Lal Jalan.

• NEWS BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Industry sees prospects of long-term rebound

  After flying into the financial turbulence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline sector expects passenger traffic to takeoff despite the problems afflicting the industry.

• NEWS BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Indian Airlines under pressure amid COVID-19 surge

  Airlines in India are under renewed pressure to raise cash or face the risk of having to downsize, consolidate or have their planes repossessed by lessors as a surge of COVID-19 infections roils travel.

• NEWS BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Domestic air passenger traffic nosedives

  Domestic air traffic nosedived to 19.20 lakh passengers in May 2021 from around 57.3 lakh in April, registering a sharp 65 to 67 per cent month-on-month contraction on account of the second wave of the pandemic.

• NEWS BRIEF | AIRLINE FINANCE
  Financial loss suffered by Airlines in India

  Airlines in India are expected to post a consolidated loss of $4.1 billion in the financial year 2021-22, similar to loss that they are estimated to have incurred in 2020-21, taking the total losses of two years to around $8 billion as a result of the pandemic so far, as per a report by aviation consultancy and research firm CAPA.

• NEWS BRIEF | INFRASTRUCTURE
  Eight new flying training institutions to be set up

  As per a report from the Ministry of Civil Aviation, there are plans to set up eight new civil flying training institutions at five civil airports in the country with an aim to make India a global pilot training hub.

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  NEWS BRIEF | INFRASTRUCTURE
  Dedicated Express Cargo Terminal at Bengaluru

  On March 12 this year, the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru launched the country’s first dedicated Express Cargo Terminal. This was launched exclusively for export and import of international couriers.

• NEWS BRIEF | AIR SAFETY
  Training in Safety Management System

  As per the International Civil Aviation Organisation, commercial aircraft operators, airports and air traffic services are required to have a Safety Management System (SMS).

• NEWS BRIEF | TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
  India’s first medical drone delivery trials

  India’s first official beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) medical drone delivery experiment is scheduled to begin late June 2021 in Gauribidanur, 80 km from Bengaluru.

• NEWS BRIEF
  Appointments

  On April 7, 2021, Sanjeev Kumar, an IAS officer of 1993 batch, Maharashtra Cadre, took over as Chairman, Airports Authority of India..., On April 26, 2021, Bombardier announced the appointment of Ève Laurier as Vice President, Communications, Public Affairs and Marketing...

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  Editor’s Note
  By B.K. Pandey, Editor

  Innovation is an integral part of Aviation as the industry needs to constantly reinvent itself. Be the innovations in airframes, propulsion, avionics or in the concept of transportation itself (urban mobility, air taxis, flying cars, etc.), the aviation sector relies on innovations to propel it forward and fly to new heights.