SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 1-2022

Issue Features

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  INDUSTRY | RECOVERY
  Asian Recovery The Long Road Back
  By Byron Bohlman

  The numbers are still sobering. Although overall traffic volumes remain significantly depressed compared to prepandemic levels, the recent relaxation of some border restrictions are welcome moves towards the restoration of international air travel in the region.

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  INDUSTRY | REVIEW
  Looking Back at India’s Civil Aviation Industry in 2021
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  Amid relief, expectations, corona variant fluctuation, new schemes, changes in the leadership, shifts in the airlines’ ecosystem, 2021 has been an active year for the Indian aviation industry

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  ENGINES | FUEL EFFICIENCY
  Large Jet Engines: Power with Fuel Efficiency
  By Anil Chopra

  The smart engine has a huge magnitude of computational power that supports improved engine efficiency and reduces fuel consumption

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  ENGINES | TECHNOLOGY
  Pratt & Whitney GTF Engines: The Latest Game Changer
  By Isha Jaiswal

  Pratt & Whitney GTF engines have achieved the reduction of carbon emissions by 20 per cent, reduction of noise footprint by 75 per cent as also reduction in maintenance costs

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  AIRLINES | ACQUISITIONS
  Tata Completes Air India Take Over
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  The transaction covers three entities –Air India, Air India Express and AI SATS

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  FLIGHT SAFETY | 5G ROLLOUT
  FAA, 5G & Aviation Safety in the US
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  FAA clears an estimated 90 per cent of the US commercial aircraft fleet for most low-visibility approaches in 5G deployment

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  SHOW PREVIEW | SAS 2022
  Ready For Take-off, Again!
  By Rohit Goel

  The first major airshow of 2022, Singapore Airshow will open its door from February 15-18 this year. Asia’s largest and most influential aviation exhibition commences in-person participation again, but this year will be slightly different from previous years

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  FINALLY
  Battling Environmental Pollution
  By B.K. Pandey

  A major advantage of switching over to SAF is that it will not require any technical modifications in the existing fleet of aircraft thus obviating the need for fresh investment

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  NEWS BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Airbus, Qatar Airways Conflict Escalates with A321neo Order Termination

  The first of 50 A321neo was set to be delivered in the second quarter of the year.

• NEWS BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Air India Plane Flies Over the Hindu Kush Mountains

  Since the closure of Afghanistan’s airspace, Air India operates flights from to Western countries through the Hindu Kush route cutting flight time by one hour and saving five tonnes of fuel.

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  NEWS BRIEF | AIRLINE NEWS
  Jet Airways to Resume Domestic Operations by 2022

  Jet Airways will restart domestic operations by the first quarter of 2022 and short haul international flights by the last quarter of next year, Jalan Kalrock Consortium (JKC), the winning bidder for the grounded airline, stated.

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  NEWS BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Boeing to Hike 777 Output to Three Per Month

  In response to heightened demand for airliners, Boeing plans to increase production of its 777 in 2022 from two to three aircraft per month.

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  NEWS BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Azorra Places Order for 20 Embraer E2 Aircraft

  Azorra, a Florida-based aircraft leasing company specialising in executive, regional and crossover aircraft, has signed an agreement with Embraer to acquire 20 new E2 family aircraft, plus a further 30 purchase rights.

• NEWS BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  Impact of Omicron on the Civil Aviation Industry

  Amid the rising COVID-19 cases across the country, airline companies are bearing the most losses, as people are getting cautious of traveling and the ones who booked their air tickets are now re-scheduling their travel plans.

• NEWS BRIEF | INDUSTRY NEWS
  A Surge in Demand for Air Cargo

  Over the past three years, Boeing has fallen well behind Airbus in orders and deliveries of passenger airliners, yet remains the king of the airfreight world.

• NEWS BRIEF | INFRASTRUCTURE
  Airports to be Sold to Private Firms in Next Three Years

  The Minister of State for Civil Aviation V.K. Singh in a reply to the Lok Sabha said on December 9, 2021 that the central government was planning to privatise a total of 25 civil airports in the country in the period 2022 to 2025...

• NEWS BRIEF | BUSINESS AVIATION
  First Business Jet A220-100 Carries Out Maiden Flight

  In December last year, Airbus had conducted the first flight of a business jet variant of its A220-100, which the aerospace major has branded as the Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) Two Twenty.

• NEWS BRIEF | BUSINESS AVIATION
  Impact of COVID-19 on Charter Flight Operators

  The ban by the Election Commission (EC) on rallies in poll-bound states since January 8, 2022 due to COVID-19, has hit the business of charter flight operators.

• NEWS BRIEF | MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND OVERHAUL (MRO)
  New Partnership in MRO Industry

  As evidence of the long-lasting business and reliability of the two companies, a new partnership agreement was signed between FL Technics, a global independent MRO service provider and SETAERO, a leading organisation...

• NEWS BRIEF
  Appointments

  On January 21, 2022, Vikram Dev Dutt IAS assumed charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Air India Limited.
  Emmanuel Bornand who joined Bombardier in 2008, will take over the role of Vice President, Sales, Europe, Russia, CIS, Middle East and Africa.

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

  Clear skies seem to be a bit more far in sight for the aviation industry as the variants of the virus continue to keep the situation uncertain