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AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION Cover Photograph: www.siae.fr RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 SP's AirBuz Cover 4-2019.indd 1 24/09/19 7:41 PM MRO / REGIONAL P7 MRO ASIa – COMPETITION HEATS UP Maintaining, repairing and overhauling aircraft is labour intensive and time consuming, two elements that aren’t compatible with the low-cost, low-fare airline philosophy P18 ENGINES / TECHNOLOGY AIRPORTS / INFRASTRUCTURE EMERGING TRENDS IN AERO ENGINE TECHNOLOGIES P10 MANAGEMENT OF GROWING AIR PASSENGER TRAFFIC P22 ENVIRONMENT / GREEN BOOST FUEL EFFICIENCY, SLASH The time has come for airport infrastructure EMISSIONS in the city side, at the terminal building and on the air side to be upgraded to meet the challenges of the future DEPARTMENTS P2 A WORD FROM EDITOR P4 NEWS BRIEFS P32 FINALLY POLICY / TAXATION SHOW REPORT / PAS 2019 P25 DUTIES AND TAXES ON IMPORT/ P28 PARIS AIR SHOW STANDS TALL FOR PURCHASE OF BUSINESS AIRCRAFT PIVOTAL AEROSPACE ACTIVITIES, YET AGAIN Awards 2017 There is a long overdue requirement to rationalise and simplify the tax regime to The Paris Air Show has grown to be a SPECIAL promote the growth of the industry hub for major developments in the global CONTRIBUTION TO aerospace market BUSINESS AVIATION SP’S AIRBUZ • ISSUE 4 • 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 AUGUST THIS YEAR, the Brazilian aerospace major founded in 1969, com- Shriniwas Mishra pleted 50 years of its glorious history and celebrated the occasion at the Paris Air Show CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR Jayant Baranwal 2019. The company that started as an aircraft manufacturer to cater to the civil as PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT well as military aviation needs of Brazil, is the third largest aircraft manufacturer in Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel the world today. During the last five decades, Embraer has facilitated and developed GROUP DIRECTOR - SALES & MARKETING Isolutions to improve human transportation and continues to pursue its lofty objectives. Neetu Dhulia Ayushee Chaudhary has a review of the five decades of existence of Embraer in this issue DEPUTY DIRECtor – SALES of the magazine. Rajeev Chugh A major event on the global civil aviation scene this year was the 53rd edition of the MANAger – HR & ADMIN Bharti Sharma iconic Paris Air Show which was held from June 17 to 23, 2019, at Le Bourget Parc des ASSISTANT MANAger – HR & ADMIN Expositions in France. This year as well, the major aerospace conglomerates from across Pooja Tehlani the globe gathered for some of the most significant deals and displays from commer- DEPUTY MANAger – CIRCULATION cial aviation that graced the show. Participating in the event were 2,453 exhibitors from Rimpy Nischal 49 countries showcasing a variety of aircraft. This issue of SP’s AirBuz carries a detailed GROUP RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Survi Massey review of the event by Ayushee Chaudhary. CREATIVE DIRECTOR There is big money in MRO business and with healthy growth driving the aviation fleets Anoop Kamath of Asian carriers, the demand for MRO in Asia is on the rise. We have the MRO projections in GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Asia by Byron Bohlman in this issue of the magazine. Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, Sonu S. Bisht One factor that is emerging as a matter of serious concern for the civil aviation indus- SP’s websITES try the world over is its contribution to the phenomenon of global warming. The mandate Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to reduce emission © SP Guide Publications, 2019 of CO2 to zero by around 2050 and the global civil aviation industry is of the firm view SUBSCRIPTION/CIRCULATION that this objective can be achieved by enhancing the fuel efficiency of engines that power Annual Inland: `600 • Foreign: US$180 aircraft. 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