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SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION ED BUYER ONLY) ED BUYER -BAS A NDI I 100.00 ( ` Aviation Sharp Content for Sharp Audience www.sps-aviation.com vol 20 ISSUE 3 • March • 2017 SHOW REPORT AERO INDIA ’17 LOSING SHEEN? CIVIL MILITARY E195-E2 flying fAST VIEWPOINT nEEd for a PRICE rATIONALISATION FULL-TIME MINISTEr of MUST DEFENCE RCS: All is not wELL! ROTARY-WING PLATFORMS OF THE BUSINESS AVIATION FUTURE BAOA cONFERENCE and AWARDS PLus much more... REINVENTING RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 AIRFARES PAGE 12 “In a country like India with limited support from the industry and market, initiating 50 years ago (in 1964) publishing magazines relating to Army, Navy and Aviation sectors without any interruption is a commendable job on the part of SP Guide“ Publications. By this, SP Guide Publications has established the fact that continuing quality work in any field would result in success.” Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India (*message received in 2014) SP's Home Ad with Modi 2016 A4.indd 1 01/02/17 5:33 PM table of contents vol 20 ISSUE 3 • March • 2017 SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION 100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) BUYER 100.00 (INDIA-BASED ` Aviation Sharp Content for Sharp Audience www.sps-aviation.com VOL 20 ISSUE 3 • MARCH • 2017 SHOW REPORT AERO INDIA ’17 LOSING SHEEN? CIVIL MILITARY E195-E2 FLYING FAST VIEWPOINT NEED FOR A PRICE RATIONALISATION FULL-TIME MINISTER OF MUST DEFENCE RCS: ALL IS NOT WELL! ROTARY-WING PLATFORMS OF THE BUSINESS AVIATION FUTURE BAOA CONFERENCE AND AWARDS PLUS MUCH MORE... REINVENTING RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 AIRFARES PAGE 12 SP's Aviation Cover 3-2017.indd 1 22/03/17 2:08 PM COVER IMAGE: Consumer segmentation and the explosive growth in ancillary revenue is redefining how airlines ACCOLADES FOR SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS: IN THE THIRD EDITION OF BAOA’s BizAVINDIA CONFERENCE AND AWARDS HELD IN BENGALURU ON THE EVE OF AERO INDIA 2017, THE UNION MINISTER OF STATE FOR sell tickets. CIVIL AVIATION JAYANT SINHA FELICITATED SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS GRouP By A ‘sPeCiAl ConTriBuTion AWArd’ for iTs relenTless ConTriBuTions TOWARDS THE GROWTH AND PROMOTION OF INDIA’s Cover Illustration by: BUSINESS AND GENERAL AVIATION SECTOR. Anoop Kamath MILITARY BUSINESS AVIATION PAGE 12 4 Viewpoint BizAvIndia Conference LEAD STORY Need for a full-time Minister 22 Will Business Aviation Ride Piggyback of Defence on RCS? REINVENTING AIRFARES 6 Helicopters 24 SP Guide Publications Receives (AGAIN) Rotary-wing Platforms of ‘Special Contribution Award’ at the Future 3rd Bizavindia Awards Event Mainline airlines around the world are adopting low-cost carrier (LCC) fare CIVIL structures in order to tap into the growing SHOWREPORT number of price-sensitive consumers. 9 Fact File E195-E2 Flying Fast towards its Destination 27 Aero India 2017 They’re also hoping that many of those Is the Show Losing its Sheen? travellers will pay slightly more. 16 Airfares Price Rationalisation Must 20 Engines REGULAR DEPARTMENTS Awards 2017 Large Orders, that’s a Real Leap 3 A Word from Editor-in-Chief SPECIAL 35 Technology CONTRIBUTION TO Honeywell’s Weather Information 36 Hall of Fame BUSINESS AVIATION Service Nadezhda Popova (1921-2013) REGIONAL AVIATION 37 News Digest NEXT ISSUE 18 RCS 40 Last Word Business Aviation in China All is not Well! RCS - Reality Check www.sps-aviation.com ISSUE 3 • 2017 1 table of contents Rotary-wing Platforms of the 6 Future PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SALES & MARKETING Jayant Baranwal General Manager Sales: Rajeev Chugh SENIOR EDITOR sP’s websites Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd) Sr Web Developer: Shailendra P. Ashish Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma ASSISTANT GROUP EDITOR R. Chandrakanth © SP Guide Publications, 2017 SENIOR TECHNICAL GROUP EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION/ CIRCULATION Lt General Naresh Chand (Retd) Annual Inland: `1,200 • Foreign: US$320 E-mail: [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS [email protected] INDIA Group Captain A.K. 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AS SUNIL MUNJAL OF HERO GROUP RIGHTLY SAID AT AIMA CONCLAVE (TODAY THE 22ND MARCH), WE SHALL KEEP PUSHING THE GOVERNMENT FOR BETTERMENT. BETTERMENT FOR OUR KEY SHOW PROPERTIES. THERE HAS BEEN A sense of déjà vu with Aero India. The afloat. The business aviation segment is awaiting a clearer picture recently concluded 11th edition of Aero India at Air Force Station on RCS as to whether it can piggy ride on the scheme and this was in Yelahanka, Bengaluru, saw a decline of nearly 200 exhibitors one of the topics at the BizAvIndia Conference and Awards of the and has become more chaotic. In stature, it has not grown. Dubai, Business Aircraft Operators Association (BAOA). For the low cost Singapore and other air shows in the region have overtaken India. and mainline airlines, the competition is heating up and they are TUnder the dynamic and wisest possible leadership of our trying various gimmicks to get the seats filled on the aircraft. In Prime Minister Narendra Modi we are witnessing an ocean of this issue we have two articles on air ticket pricing and its mecha- efforts towards improvements of many sectors and many issues nism, one by Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd) and other by Byron within every sector. Somehow we are unable to witness any Bohlman, an industry veteran. improvement towards handling of shows such as Aero India On the military aviation front, while in the fixed-wing (and Defexpo) which are losing luminosity and magnetism com- regime, designers are pushing into the sixth-generation plat- pared to various other shows taking place in Asia also reflecting forms, innovations in the rotary-wing regime have been focused in the number of exhibitors coming from official website itself. It on platforms with better battlefield survivability and mission has become one other event in the biennial calendar, but with a accomplishment capability. However, the pace of development declining trend, in terms of organisation, facilities and engage- in rotary-wing platforms, compared to fixed-wing aircraft, have ment with exhibitors, in terms of number of participants, in been relatively slower. No major advancement or breakthrough terms of deals and in terms of scale and depth. in design is likely in the foreseeable future. A report by Group Now, there is some thinking at the ministerial level that India Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd) on future rotary-wing platforms for should have one mega show, clubbing the two alternate bien- military use has been included in this issue. nials — Aero India, Bengaluru and India Aviation, Hyderabad. For us at SP Guide Publications, it was a humbling moment While this makes perfect sense, the challenges are going to dou- when it received the “Special Contribution” Award for its contri- ble, considering that the shows are held by the ministries, more bution to the Business Aviation sector at the 3rd BAOA awards. or less, strapped by bureaucratic procedures. We have included We shall relentlessly work towards the betterment of all the an extensive report on Aero India which reflects the push by the elements of aviation sector and that remains our resolve. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign to the fore. There has been a clear shift in focus in the wake of the indigenisation campaign with more and more original equip- ment manufacturers (OEMs) eyeing joint venture, collaboration, partnership, etc, with local Indian companies. Post Aero India, there has been a change in the defence portfolio with Manohar Parrikar returning as Goa Chief Minister and the Finance Min- ister Arun Jaitley being given additional portfolio of defence. It is hoped that the ministry will have soon a full-fledged minister. Meanwhile, civil aviation in India is at the crossroads, while one road beckons it towards the No.