RESURRECTION at ROYAL BRUNEI? for CEO and Deputy Chairman, Dermot Mannion, Improving the Financial Fortunes of Royal Brunei Remains a Work in Progress
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Vol. 22 No. 8 October 2015 orientaviation.com RESURRECTION AT ROYAL BRUNEI? For CEO and deputy chairman, Dermot Mannion, improving the financial fortunes of Royal Brunei remains a work in progress Attracting the Qantas tops Pacific partners Google generation region for first to meet new to the cockpit ancillary revenue tracking targets MRO SPECIAL Asia-PacificREPORTupdate Time on wing is our thing. Clock up to 20 percent longer time on wing with a Pratt & Whitney FMP. You’ll see lower total maintenance costs, 50 percent improved reliability, better performance retention, and up to 50 percent higher residual value. We have flexible programs that fit your operation and cost-control goals. Our advances like predictive analytics use big data to monitor your engines’ performance. The best people to keep your engines on wing are the people who make them. After all, it’s our thing. Find out more at www.pw.utc.com. 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Mailing address: GPO Box 11435 Hong Kong For CEO and deputy chairman, Office: 17/F Hang Wai Commercial Building, Dermot Mannion, turning around 231-233 Queen’s Road East, Royal Brunei remains a work Wanchai, Hong Kong Tel: Editorial (852) 2865 1013 in progress E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.orientaviation.com Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Christine McGee E-mail: [email protected] Chief Correspondent Tom Ballantyne Tel: (612) 9638 6895 Fax: (612) 9684 2776 E-mail: [email protected] Greater China Correspondent Dominic Lalk Tel: (852) 2865 1013 E-mail: [email protected] North Asia Correspondent Geoffrey Tudor Tel: (813) 3373 8368 E-mail: [email protected] COMMENT MAIN STORY 7 Approaching crisis point? 14 Asia’s congestion contagion India Correspondent R. Thomas Tel: (852) 2865 1013 NEWSMAKERS E-mail: [email protected] 9 Internet king, Jack Ma, invests in China’s “smart Photographers airports” Rob Finlayson, Colin Parker, Graham Uden, Ryan Peters 9 Frankfurt airport finally victorious in Manila airport terminal dispute Design & Production Chan Ping Kwan 9 THAI staff resisting change says the airline’s boss Printing Printing Station(2008) ADMINISTRATION General Manager TRAINING Shirley Ho 30 Airlines must attract the bedazzled Google E-mail: [email protected] generation to the cockpit ADVERTISING 31 Pan Am/ANA Thailand’s flight training academy South East Asia and Pacific wins third party clients Tan Kay Hui Tel: (65) 9790 6090 E-mail: [email protected] NEWS BACKGROUNDERS SPECIAL REPORT 11 PAL disappointed with new UAE air services deal MROs battle for business with OEMs goliaths: The Americas / Canada Barnes Media Associates An Asia-Pacific update Ray Barnes 32 IATA boss objects to “runaway aftermarket Tel: (1 434) 770 4108 Fax: (1 434) 927 5101 agreements” E-mail: [email protected] Europe & the Middle East REM International Stephane de Rémusat Tel: (33 5) 34 27 01 30 Fax: (33 5) 34 27 01 31 E-mail: [email protected] © All rights reserved Wilson Press HK Ltd., 12 Pacific partners first to meet new tracking targets Hong Kong, 2015 28 Qantas tops region for ancillary revenue OCTOBER 2015 / ORIENT AVIATION / 3 Which aircraft best combines comfort with efficiency? It’s undoubtedly the A350 XWB. Offering 18ʺ wide seats as standard in economy, along with a 25% step change in fuel efficiency and a 25% lower seat-mile cost, it has unrivalled low operating costs. The best bit? It’s already in the air. Airbus is the answer. airbus.com © AIRBUS, 2015. All rights reserved. Airbus, its logo and the product names are registered trademarks. Airbus_OrientAviation_Oct.indd Pg1 Prodigious UK 23/09/2015 10:47 Which aircraft best combines comfort with efficiency? It’s undoubtedly the A350 XWB. Offering 18ʺ wide seats as standard in economy, along with a 25% step change in fuel efficiency and a 25% lower seat-mile cost, it has unrivalled low operating costs. The best bit? It’s already in the air. Airbus is the answer. airbus.com © AIRBUS, 2015. All rights reserved. Airbus, its logo and the product names are registered trademarks. Airbus_OrientAviation_Oct.indd Pg1 Prodigious UK 23/09/2015 10:47 Come see us at MRO Asia Booth 531 240 Why do 240 of the world’s leading OEMs rely on Aviall? With more than 80 years of experience, nobody knows distribution like Aviall. Aviall’s network of 40 global stocking locations fi lled with $2 billion of available inventory is strategically designed to meet the needs of more than 25,000 customers. And with cutting edge demand forecasting capability, Aviall helps OEMs maximize their production effi ciency. Aviall Delivers. Proudly Keeping the World in Flight. Beijing: 86-10-6410-6086 Japan: 81-45-226-0236 Dubai: 971-4-2998980 Shanghai: 86-21-6391 0619 Hong Kong: 852-2318-0233 Singapore: 65-6542-5420 aviall.com India: 91-120-4738000 COMMENT Approaching crisis point? The fact that 30% of flights into China operated by Cathay Lumpur are facilities that have met the challenge of Pacific Airways and Dragonair were delayed in the first servicing the world’s fastest growing aviation market. half of this year is no news to anyone in the industry. However, the International Air Transport Association’s China is a red hot congestion spot that is showing no (IATA) drive to have “Seamless Skies” implemented in the signs of cooling in the immediate future. Asia-Pacific has been disappointing. Designed to improve But it is not the only country in the region with choked air traffic flow along airways using cross-border flow airports and airline fleets flying in confined skies. Gateways management, its success is “patchy” and in some cases including Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Hanoi are operating “very slow”. far beyond their design capacity. Some countries have upgraded their air traffic systems, As a result, carriers are losing millions of dollars a year others have not. It results, IATA said, in everyone having to because they are forced to fly holding patterns and run operate at the lowest common denominator, which does engines on taxiways while they wait for gates to clear. very little to relieve the increasing air traffic congestion that And then there are the passengers and the crews. costs airlines so much time and money. Passengers are entitled to be annoyed when they have to Governments understand the importance of aviation sit in packed planes for hours - a common experience in to their local economies, but many of them are backing China - and then often miss their onward flights because away from the multi-billion dollar decisions required to of delays. build modern aviation infrastructure. They must step up It isn’t fair either that cockpit and cabin crews and to the plate and build facilities that will keep up with the operations staff have to suffer the complaints, often demands that increasing numbers of jets are placing on abusive, of passengers outraged by delays. Or to have to the system. constantly manage changing operating schedules. Aviation is a complex industry built on partnerships. So what to do? The present congested state of airport New airports alone will not eliminate congestion. There must and air traffic management has developed because be a dramatic improvement in air traffic management to the infrastructure master plans of many Asia-Pacific accompany the onground hardware. governments and airport authorities have failed to keep up Unfortunately, the evidence to date suggests that this is with demand. not going to happen soon and that congestion in the Asia- There are exceptions. Singapore Changi and Kuala Pacific is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. ■ TOM BALLANTYNE Chief Correspondent Orient Aviation Media Group The voice of Asia-Pacific aviation ORIENT AVIATION ORIENT AVIATION ORIENT AVIATION CHINA INDIA “It has established itself as the primary source of information on industry topics in the Asia-Pacific region” OCTOBER 2015 / ORIENT AVIATION / 7 AIRMANSHIP SKILLS MAINTAIN PROFICIENCY WITH FLIGHTSAFETY’S ADVANCED PILOT COURSES “These advanced courses will bring fl ight crews a level of ‘exceptional knowledge’ that is important for safe operations.” – Randy Gaston, Vice President, Flight Operations Gulfstream Aerospace Randy Gaston has been with Gulfstream for more than 20 years and was chief test pilot during development of the GV. He is a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB. Randy was test pilot with the FAA Aircraft Certifi cation Offi ce and chief test pilot for the B-1B bomber. 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