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BY rajan mehra, Chief EXECUTIVe OFFICER, CLUB One AIR page 21 social imPact SUSTAINABILITY Awards 2017 Gulfstream Boosts SAF on the Sidelines of SPECIAL BizAV Sustainability Summit CONTRIBUTION TO BY ayushee chaudhary BUSINESS AVIATION www.sps-aviation.com/bizavindiasupplement BizAVIndia | ISSUE 4 | 2020 1 FROM the editOR-in-CHIEF PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jayant Baranwal PRINCIpaL CORRESPONDENT Ayushee Chaudhary ADVISORY BOARD Air Vice Marshal S.S. Chauhan (Retd) President, BAOA Group Captain R.K. Bali (Retd), Managing Director, BAOA CHAIRMAN & MaNAGING DIRECTOR Jayant Baranwal PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel Adaptability, creativity, sustainability DESIGN Designers: Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, and the ability to re-structure garner Sonu S. Bisht focus amid pandemic challenges GROUP DIRECTor – SaLES & MaRKETING Neetu Dhulia Dear Reader, DEPUTY DIRECTor – SaLES There is no one who has not felt the effects of the pandemic due to the novel coronavirus. 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Baranwal Editor-in-Chief 2 BizAVIndia | ISSUE 4 | 2020 www.sps-aviation.com/bizavindiasupplement MESSAGE from president, bAOA PRESIDENT BUSINESS AIRCRAFT OPERATORS ASSOCIATION An Opportunity to Make Air Travel Safer! COVID-19 Pandemic may be a curse, but it also presents a unique challenge to make necessary changes to the aircraft so as to make its design safer for future travel “Cash is King”, but “The One Who Will Provide Cash (in these Corona-hit times) Is The Emperor!” The field of aviation is as distinctly different in its infrastructure & operational details, as are many other fields that form the backbone of a nation’s economic activity today. In turn, the main sub-parts of aviation consist of: l The Aircraft Production & Distribution (Sales & associated) Centres, l The Aircraft Exploitation (the scheduled-, the non-scheduled- & the private owner-user) Centres & the Support (MRO/associated support) Centres, l The National Governments, the National Regulatory Authorities, the International Monitoring Agencies & other associated Reg- ulatory/Support elements. These sub-parts/sectors interactively affect each others’ performance & results. As such, in the ‘Commercial Aviation Sector’, the existence & performance of the smaller ‘Business Aviation’ in India cannot be viewed in isolation from the existence & performance of its nearest ‘Big Brother’ i.e. the ‘Scheduled Airlines’. In the current century, so far there have been three major downturns in aviation - the first in the year 2001 after the “9/11 event”, the second in the year 2008 caused by the “Economic Recession”, & the third this year (since around March 2020), triggered world- wide by the “COVID-19 Pandemic”. After the first two downturns, with the consistent human endeavour & efforts that followed, aviation bounced back with increased momentum over a period of time. As such, it is expected that the future of aviation, after the current downturn, would be no different & that it will certainly bounce back within (as yet unpredictable but hopefully) a short span of time. With this optimistic note, we need to assess the current indicators, challenges & opportunities in different sectors of the aviation infrastructure. A random sampling ‘in bullet form’ is presented below, for a “Quick Gun Murugan” style of reading: l According to Moody’s, Commercial Aviation will be ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic for years to come. Every stake holder, from plane manufacturers to plane lessors, airlines to airports, MROs to parts suppliers, (et al), will be squeezed, with effects rip- pling across the entire global economy. l Major rivals Airbus & Boeing have each announced plans to cut over 10,000 jobs, with more to follow.