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SP’s RS: 75.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) An Exclusive Magazine on Civil A viation from India www.spsairbuz.net December ’09-January ’10 HIGH PRICE OF LOW FARES 2009: THE YEAR THAT WAS STATE OF AIRLINE INDUSTRY AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION IN INDIA & MUCH MORE... RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 See us at: Singapore Airshow 2010 at H78 India Pavillion See us at: Defexpo 2010, India at Hall 14 Stand 14.1 Transforming commercial aviation. It’s in our power.™ Game-changing PurePower™ technology creates double-digit reductions in fuel burn, engine noise and emissions. Learn more at www.pw.utc.com. 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ENVIRONMENT � ����������������������� Photograph: � ����������������������� �������������������������� � � Flying in the Face of ����������������������� ����������������������� ����������������������������� 12 Climate Change Abhishek Singh SP's Airbuz 06-09 Cover.indd 1 1/7/10 10:35:48 AM AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION SP’s An Exclusive Magazine on Civil A viation from India Industry 9 ECONOMY In The Doldrums Business MODERN AIRLINERS, LIKE THE BOEING B787, CONSUME ON AN AVERAGE LESS THAN THREE LITRES PER 100 PASSENGER KILOMETRES—AN ASTOUNDINGLY LOW FIGURE BY ANY YARDSTICK 17 LCC The High Price of Low Fare PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR: Ratan Sonal Jayant Baranwal GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Rajkumar Sharma, Vimlesh Kumar Yadav Interview EDITOR Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey SALES & MARKETING CORPORATE Director Sales & Marketing: Neetu Dhulia 20 ASSISTANT EDITOR Head Vertical Sales: Rajeev Chugh ‘India is very Important’ Arundhati Das Sales Manager: Rajiv Ranjan ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR SP’S WEBSITES Retrospection Senior Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish Abhishek Singh Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma 23 ACCIDENT ANALYSIS SUB-EDITOR © SP Guide Publications, 2009 Bipasha Roy Collision In The Corridor ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION CONTRIBUTORS Inland: Rs 800 • Foreign: US$180 Email: [email protected] Dr Mani Sishta, Fact File B.N. Gokhale, LETTER TO EDITOR R. Srinivasan, Dr M. Bish, [email protected] Helicopter Flight Simulator Group Captain Joseph Noronha, 25 FOR ADVERTISING DETAILS CONTACT: Dr Mani Sishta, Captain Ajit Agtey, [email protected] S.R. Swarup, Vasuki Prasad, [email protected] Annual Roundup J.T. Nayaham, Mahesh Acharya [email protected] Europe Alan Peaford, Phil Nasskau [email protected] 26 2009: The Year That Was CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD A-133 Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), Jayant Baranwal New Delhi 110 003, India. Finally ADMIN & COORDINATION Tel: +91 (11) 24644693, 24644763, 24620130 A Dream Takes Wings Bharti Sharma Fax: +91 (11) 24647093 32 Survi Massey Email: [email protected] Owned, published and printed by Jayant Baranwal, POSTAL ADDRESS printed at Kala Jyothi Process Pvt Ltd and Published at Post Box No 2525, New Delhi 110 005, India. Regular Departments A-133, Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), New REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE Delhi 110 003, India. All rights reserved. No part of this BANGALORE, INDIA publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval 534, Jal Vayu Vihar, Kammanhalli Main Road 3 A Word from Editor system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, Bangalore 560043, India. Tel: +91 (80) 23682534 photocopying, recording, electronic, or otherwise without NewsBriefs prior written permission of the Publishers. www.spguidepublications.com 5 Next Issue: Advent of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast 2 • SP’S • Issue 6 • 2009 G www.spsairbuz.net A Word from Editor OLLOWING A DISASTROUS 2008 THAT Our special correspondent surveys the state of the air- saw the global aviation industry engulfed by line industry in India and highlights the crucial role that the debilitating effects of economic downturn, the government ought to play if the industry is to flour- 2009 rekindled hope as symptoms of econom- ish or even survive. Fic recovery began to appear in the Asian region. Full In a brilliant analysis of the changing business mod- recovery for the airlines though is yet a distant dream els of airlines, Joseph Noronha evaluates the low cost as the cumulative losses of the global airline industry model that most domestic carriers see as a panacea estimated at $80 billion (Rs 3,70,965 crore) cannot be for their financial distress to conclude that the line be- wiped out in a hurry. As per the Centre for Asia Pacific tween the Low Cost and Full Service Business Models is Aviation, Indian carriers will have accumulated opera- in fact getting blurred. tional losses in excess of Rs 26,000 crore up to March Also in this issue is a round up of important hap- 2010. Of this, Air India’s share alone accounts for over penings in the year gone by, News Brief as also a re- Rs 7,500 crore. port on the helicopter simulator training facility called For India’s airlines—apart from the chronic prob- Shaurya Flight Sim established by Shaurya Aeronautics lems of inadequate infrastructure, high taxes, rising at Safdarjang Airport. This is the only facility of its kind cost of fuel and low demand growth in passenger/cargo in this region and should be of boon the helicopter op- traffic—2009 was marked by convulsions at first with erators in India. the Federation of Indian Airlines demanding relief from Welcome aboard and wish you a happy and pros- the government, threatening to go on strike and possi- perous year ahead! bly total shutdown. Later pilots and management who are frequently at loggerheads owing to inadequate un- derstanding of each other’s compulsions, paralysed the two largest carriers, Air India and Jet Airways, for sev- eral days holding the traveling public to ransom. At the international conference on climate change at Copenhagen, commercial aviation—one of the fast- est growing sources of global CO2 emission—inevitably came under the scanner. The cover story in this issue has an in-depth analysis of the subject by Joseph No- B.K. Pandey ronha, who also focuses on the possible options avail- Editor able to the industry to cope with the looming problem. 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