AMENDMENT TO INDIGO HOVERS HIGH PW100 ENGINEs – AIRCRAFT RULES WHILE AIR INDIA POWERING REGIONAL 1937 STRUGGLES TO SUSTAIN TURBOPROPS P 7 P 17 P 25 FEBRUARY-MARCH 2020 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) VOLUME 13 • ISSUE 1 WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.COM ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA “Our BOEING TEAM HAS TAKEN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TWIN- AISLE JET OF ALL TIME AND MADE IT EVEN MORE EFFICIENT, MORE CAPABLE AND MORE COMFORTABLE FOR ALL. TODAy’s safe first FLIGHT OF THE 777X IS A TRIBUTE TO THE YEARS OF HARD WORK AND DEDICATION FROM OUR TEAMMATES, OUR SUPPLIERS AND OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN WASHINGTON STATE AND ACROSS THE GLOBe.” — STAN DEAL, PRESIDENT & CEO BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES. 777X DEBUTS PAGE 10 AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 THERE IS NO COMPARISON. NO EQUAL. THERE IS ONLY ONE. THE COMMERCIAL JET ENGINE IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN. Powered by an industry‑first geared architecture — and more than 40 other groundbreaking innovations — the Pratt & Whitney GTF™ is unlike any engine that’s come before it. EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT AT PW.UTC.COM PW CE GTF NoComparison_SPsAirbuz.indd 1 8/13/19 5:00 PM Client: Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines Ad Title: GTF - No comparison. Publication: SPs Air Buz - Oct/Nov Issue #5 Trim: 210 x 267 mm • Bleed: 220 x 277 mm • Live: TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover: AMENDMENT TO INDIGO HOVERS HIGH PW100 ENGINES – AIRCRAFT RULES WHILE AIR INDIA POWERING REGIONAL 1937 STRUGGLES TO SUSTAIN TURBOPROPS P 7 P 17 P 25 LAUNCH / BOEING 777X The newest member of Boeing’s FEBRUARY-MARCH 2020 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) market-leading widebody family, VOLUME 13 • ISSUE 1 WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.COM ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA “OUR BOEING TEAM HAS TAKEN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TWIN- AISLE JET OF ALL TIME AND MADE IT EVEN MORE EFFICIENT, MORE CAPABLE AND MORE COMFORTABLE FOR ALL. TODAY’S SAFE FIRST the 777X will deliver 10 per cent FLIGHT OF THE 777X IS A TRIBUTE TO THE YEARS OF HARD WORK AND DEDICATION FROM OUR TEAMMATES, OUR SUPPLIERS AND P10 Boeing’s 777X glides into OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN WASHINGTON STATE AND ACROSS THE GLOBE.” — STAN DEAL, PRESIDENT & CEO THE INDUSTRY lower fuel use and emissions BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES. and 10 per cent lower operating Being claimed as the largest and costs than the competition. the most fuel-efficient twin-engine Cover Photograph: 777X DEBUTS PAGE 10 AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION Boeing RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 commercial jet, the aircraft is SP's AirBuz Cover 1-2020.indd 1 11/02/20 1:57 PM expected to be delivered in 2021. POLICY / REVIEW P7 AMENDMENT TO AIRCRAFT RULES 1937 With the recent amendment in the licencing procedure, the MoCA has demonstrated that it is alive to the needs of its stakeholders and is willing to fulfill the responsibility of an enabler. AIRLINES / OPERATIONS P21 SpICEJET AND GULF AIR SIGN A AIRLINES / OPEARTIONS CODESHARE AGREEMENT ENGINES / PRATT & WHITNEY P14 TOP AIRLINES IN ASIA P25 PW100/150 engines – As the winners show, an airline simply needs POWERING THE REGIONAL to provide an all-round and consistent travel AIRLINE TURBOPROPS experience with service the watchword. AIRPORTS / ENVIRONMENT P28 AAI SETS NEW GREEN BENCHMARK SHOW PREVIEW / SINGAPORE AIRSHOW P29 ASIA’s finest air shoW READY FOR ITS FLIGHT DEPARTMENTS P2 A WORD FROM EDITOR P3 NEWS BRIEFS P32 FINALLY AIRLINES / OPERATIONS ENGINES / TECHNOLOGY P17 INDIGO HOVERS HIGH WHILE AIR P22 NEXT GEN ENGINES INDIA STRUGGLES TO SUSTAIN Performance of aircraft can be While aviation industry is not having achieved by enhancing the efficiency of the best of its time in India, IndiGo has combustion engines and simultaneously reported a huge profit for the third quarter exploring electric and hybrid propulsion SPECIAL of 2019 but Air India has invited bids for systems. CONTRIBUTION TO privatisation of the national carrier. BUSINESS AVIATION SP’S AIRBUZ • ISSUE 1 • 2020 • 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 STAFF CORRESPONDENT Ayushee Chaudhary CONTRIBUTORS Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd) N AN ACTION THAT Group Captain Joseph Noronha (Retd) has come as somewhat of a pleasant surprise for the Indian S.R. Swarup, Vasuki Prasad civil aviation community especially civil pilots with high experience levels, but not Shriniwas Mishra current with flying and wish to obtain a civil pilot’s licence. DGCA has introduced a CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR significant relaxation in the preconditions for experienced pilots for obtaining a civil Jayant Baranwal flying licence. The amendment to the rule pertains to removal of the recency clause PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel Ithat demanded from the applicant, a flying experience of 150 hours for fixed-wing aircraft GROUP DIRECTOR - SALES & MARKETING and 100 hours for helicopters in the preceding 12 months from the date of applying for Neetu Dhulia a civil pilot’s licence. This requirement has now been watered down to 20 hours of flying DEPUTY DIrector – SALES logged in the preceding 12 months. V.K. Verma who till recently was heading the presti- Rajeev Chugh gious Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Academy has a detailed report in this issue of SP’s Manager – HR & ADMIN Bharti Sharma AirBuz on this welcome move by the DGCA. ASSISTant Manager – HR & ADMIN On January 25, 2020, the new Boeing 777X entered the next phase of its rigorous test Pooja Tehlani program as it took-off for a 3-hour, 51-minute flight before landing at Seattle’s Boeing Field DEPuty Manager – CIRCULATION . Based on the most successful twin-aisle airplane ever, the Boeing 777, and with advanced Rimpy Nischal technologies from the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the 777X will be the largest and most fuel GROUP RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Survi Massey efficient twin-engine jet in the world, with an exceptional passenger experience and is CREATIVE DIRECTOR expected to deliver in 2021. In the lead story inside, Ayushee Chaudhary covers this suc- Anoop Kamath cessful first flight of the new Boeing 777X. GRAPHIC DESIGNERS For the global aerospace industry, emission of Greenhouse Gases from aircraft engines Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, Sonu S. Bisht has become an area of major concern that is being addressed through innovations in SP’s websITES Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish technologies in the development of power plants with much lower emissions. A detailed Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma review by Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retd) on how this problem is being tackled in the next © SP Guide Publications, 2020 generation of aircraft engines, is included in this issue of SP’s AirBuz. In a related article SUBSCRIPTION/CIRCULATION in this issue of the magazine, Ayushee Chaudhary carries out a detailed review of the Annual Inland: `600 • Foreign: US$180 regional turboprop engine family of PW100, amongst the most successful product of Pratt E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] and Whitney, one of the leading manufacturers in the world of aircraft engines. LETTER TO EDITOR Writing from Goa, Joseph Noronha catalogues the leading carriers in the world based [email protected] on international awards conferred on them. It would be of interest to observe that the five FOR ADVERTISING DETAILS CONTACT best airlines in the world hail from Asia and the Middle East. It is indeed a matter of con- [email protected] [email protected] cern that no Indian carrier comes anywhere close to the top ranking airlines in the world. SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD Clearly, this needs to be taken as a wakeup call by the Indian airline industry. A-133 Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), On January 27 this year, the Government invited bids for 100 per cent stake sale Air New Delhi 110003, India. Tel: +91 (11) 24644693, 24644763, 24620130 India and transfer of management control along with its complete share in two subsidiar- Fax: +91 (11) 24647093 ies-low-cost international carriers Air India Express and ground-handling arm AISATS. A E-mail: [email protected] detailed write up on the subject by Ayushee Chaudhary of SP Guide Publications figures BENGALURU, INDIA in this issue of the magazine. 204, Jal Vayu Vihar, Kalyan Nagar Bengaluru 560043, India. All this and more in this issue of SP’s AirBuz. Welcome aboard and wish you many Tel: +91 (80) 23682204 happy landings! www.spguidepublications.com Jai Hind ! 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 1 • 2020 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 CARROLL LANE NAMED PRESIDENT OF COMMERCIAL ENGINES, PRatt & WHITNEY INDIGO - FIRST AIRLINE TO REACH 1500 DAILY DEPARTURES Low-cost carrier IndiGo has become the ratt & Whitney announced that Carroll Lane has first airline in India to operate 1,500 daily assumed the role of President of the company’s departures. The airline operates these Commercial Engines business, reporting to Pratt & PWhitney President Christopher Calio. Pratt & Whitney is flights to 83 destinations and with over 2,50,000 passengers daily. Ronojoy Dutta, a division of United Technologies Corp.