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P&W INAUGURATES SHOW REPORT NEW DAWN FOR INDO- 100TH eLEARNING DUBAI PAK COOPERATION IN CENTRE IN INDIA AIRSHOW 2019 CIVIL AVIATION P 25 P 26 P 32 DECEMBER 2019-JANUARY 2020 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) VOLUME 12 • ISSUE 6 WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.COM ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA MRO INDIA SPECIAL IMPETUS REQUIRED FOR THE INDIAN AVIATION MRO SECTOR CORRECT POLICY IMBALANCES by BHARAT MALKANI, MAX AEROSPACE AND AVIATION TECHNOLOGY IN AVIATION MRO AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION PAGE 10 ONWARDS RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 “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 01/06/18 12:06 PM TABLE OF CONTENTS MRO / INDUSTRY P10 IMPETUS REQUIRED FOR THE P&W INAUGURATES SHOW REPORT NEW DAWN FOR INDO- 100TH eLEARNING DUBAI PAK COOPERATION IN CENTRE IN INDIA AIRSHOW 2019 CIVIL AVIATION INDIAN AVIATION MRO SECTOR Cover: P 25 P 26 P 32 DECEMBER 2019-JANUARY 2020 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) The government needs to tackle VOLUME 12 • ISSUE 6 WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.COM ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA The MRO sector is a tough industry, four key areas with incisive is highly regulated, is all about flight focus – GST, royalties, customs safety and is thus very important as procedures and skills retention a sector of the Indian civil aviation to boost MRO business in India. MRO INDIA SPECIAL IMPETUS REQUIRED FOR THE INDIAN AVIATION MRO SECTOR CORRECT POLICY IMBALANCES by BHARAT MALKANI, Cover Photograph: MAX AEROSPACE AND AVIATION industry TECHNOLOGY IN AVIATION MRO AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION PAGE 10 ONWARDS Air Works RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 SP's AirBuz Cover 6-2019.indd 1 02/12/19 12:05 PM MRO / POLICY P14 CORRECT POLICY IMBALANCES 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 MRO / TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY / FORECAST P22 BOEING FORECASTS $770 BILLION P19 SMART WARFIGHTING ARRAY OF CIVIL AVIATION MARKET IN INDIA RECONFIGURABLE MODULES (SWARM) OVER 20 YEARS TECHNOLOGY IN AVIATION MRO P24 INTERVIEW with Salil Gupte, The next generation of cloud solutions are President Boeing India, and here to help process data from predictive Darren Hulst, Sr. Managing maintenance to in-flight performance and Director, Market Analysis aging of the aircraft can be better tracked and & Sales Support, Boeing understood Commercial Airplanes DEPARTMENTS P2 A WORD FROM EDITOR P3 NEWS BRIEFS P32 FINALLY TRAINING / PRATT & WHITNEY SHOW REPORT / DUBAI AIRSHOW 2019 P25 P&W INAUGURATES 100TH P26 MiDDLE-EAST SKY PAINTED IN eLEARNING CENTRE IN INDIA COLOURS OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY Pratt & Whitney’s sponsorship of eLearning Hosting over 84,000 visitors, Dubai Centers in Hyderabad and Vishakhapatnam Airshow’s 2019 edition successfully builds on the efforts the company has made connected the aerospace industry amid SPECIAL in India over the last decade to inspire the significant innovation, discussion, CONTRIBUTION TO next generation of engineers exhibits, trade and much more BUSINESS AVIATION SP’S AIRBUZ • ISSUE 6 • 2019 • 1 A WORD FROM EDITOR PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jayant Baranwal EDITOR Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd) DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Neetu Dhulia GROUP EXECUTIVE EDITOR Vishal Thapar CONTRIBUTORS Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd) Group Captain Joseph Noronha (Retd) S.R. Swarup, Vasuki Prasad N IMPORTANT SECTOR OF the Indian civil aviation industry is its Main- Shriniwas Mishra tenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) segment which rather unfortunately in CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR Jayant Baranwal India, has not registered a growth rate that matches that of the industry. In PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT this issue of the magazine, in a comprehensive analysis of the problems faced Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel by the MRO industry in India, Sukhchain Singh has catalogued in detail, the GROUP DIRECTOR - SALES & MARKETING measuresA the Government of India needs to adopt to provide the necessary impetus to Neetu Dhulia enable it achieve a healthy rate of growth. Also, there is a report by Bharat Malkani, Chair- DEPUTY DIRECtor – SALES man & Managing Director, Max Aerospace and Aviation on the need to correct the glar- Rajeev Chugh ing policy imbalances in the MRO industry in India. In the report, he has attributed the MANAGEr – HR & ADMIN Bharti Sharma slow rate of growth of this segment of the industry essentially to the flawed policies of the ASSISTANT MANAGEr – HR & ADMIN Government of India especially with regard to the high rate of taxes imposed as compared Pooja Tehlani to the neighbouring countries. Companies owning and operating aircraft based in India DEPUTY MANAGEr – CirCULATION quite understandably, opt to avail of MRO services in the neighbouring countries that do Rimpy Nischal not levy such high rates of taxes. This has been seriously impinging on the health of the GROUP RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Survi Massey MRO industry in India. In another article on MRO in this issue, Sukhchain Singh delves CREATIVE DIRECTOR into SWARM Technology in MRO industry. This is the next generation of cloud solutions Anoop Kamath that will help process data from predictive maintenance to in-flight performance and age- GRAPHIC DESIGNERS ing of the aircraft can be better tracked and understood. Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, Sonu S. Bisht Despite all the impediments and challenges that the Indian civil industry is confronted SP’S WEBSITES with today, Boeing appears to be highly optimistic about its growth prospects in the com- Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma ing years. As per a Commercial Market Outlook report by Boeing released in the first week © SP Guide Publications, 2019 of November this year, India will be a $770 billion market in the next two decades. Con- SUBSCRIPTION/CIRCULATION sequently, this phenomenal rate of growth will drive a demand for 2,380 new jet aircraft, Annual Inland: `600 • Foreign: US$180 a highly inspiring projection for the global aerospace industry. This issue of SP’s AirBuz E-mail: [email protected] carries a report by Vishal Thapar on the forecast by Boeing as also an interaction between [email protected] Jayant Baranwal, Editor-in-Chief of SP’s AirBuz with Salil Gupte, President Boeing India and LETTER TO EDITOR [email protected] Darren Hulst, Senior Managing Director, Market Analysis and Sales Support, Boeing Com- FOR ADVERTISING DETAILS CONTACT mercial Airplanes during the release of Boeing’s “2019 India Commercial Market Outlook”. [email protected] From innovative ideas to significant announcements, the world’s aviation leaders [email protected] were all seen displaying their capabilities at the recently held Dubai Airshow 2019 (DAS). 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Owned, published and printed by Jayant Baranwal, printed at Kala Jyothi Process Pvt Ltd and Published at A-133, Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), New Delhi 110003, India. All rights reserved. B.K. Pandey MEMBER OF: Editor 2 • SP’S AIRBUZ • Issue 6 • 2019 www.spsaIrbuz.com G Earlier, Buffet had admitted it was one of his few indulgences. Subse- quently, what elevated the business jet from a luxury toy to what is increas- ingly seen as a vital corporate tool? In the US, hundreds of Fortune 500 com- panies now flaunt their own aircraft, with companies arguing that this vital conveyance saves time and boosts pro- ductivity.NEWS A recentBRIEFS CNN report quoted ( AIRLINE NEWS PRATT & WHITNEY HONOURED WITH TWO MAJOR AVIATION WEEK AwaRDS SPICEJET TO SET UP JOINT VENTURE AIRLINE IN UAE ratt & Whitney President Bob Leduc has been hon- oured with Aviation Week’s “Lifetime Achievement” award. Aviation Week writes, “Leduc came out of Pretirement 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.” This is a significant honor, a capstone to Bob’s 40+-year career in aviation and most recently, as the leader who spear- headed P&W’s production and oversight of our most success- Robert F. Leduc ful programs, the GTF, F135, PW800, and of course, the PT6-E. In October this year, Ajay Singh Chairman Speaking of the PT6-E, the latest program from Canada was also honored with and Managing Director of SpiceJet stated a Laureate this year, in the general aviation category.