Vol. 24 No. 6 July-August 2017 orientaviation.com STAR PERFORMER All Nippon Airways CEO, Yuji Hirako, focuses on smarter operations at the dynamic carrier New Garuda boss HNA group chairman Industry forecasts confirm has 12 months to Chen Feng on charm Asia-Pacific airline market fix carrier offensive supremacy INDUSTRYSPECIALAsia-Pacific INSIGHT REPORT crewan training: update B:420 mm T:404 mm S:384 mm THINK MORE THINK MAX B:285 mm S:253 mm T:273 mm Introducing the 737 MAX 10. The newest addition to the 737 MAX family offers the lowest per-seat cost in the single-aisle segment. Setting new standards in seat costs and effi ciency, the 737 MAX is now the most profi table family in any airline’s fl eet. It’s time to take a closer look. Think more. 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Follow us @CAE_Inc Your worldwide training partner of choice CONTENTS Volume 24, Issue 6 27 IATA urges airlines to share information COVER STORY 30 Industry global forecasts confirm Asia-Pacific’s future market supremacy 22 STAR PERFORMER 32 Le Bourget an Asia-Pacific bonanza New All Nippon Airways CEO, 33 Japan Airlines plots market catch up with 23% Yuji Hirako, said the airline can capacity surge PUBLISHED BY only prosper if it becomes more MAIN STORY ORIENT AVIATION MEDIA GROUP resilient to disruption 12 Time waits for no airline as full service carriers Mailing address: GPO Box 11435 Hong Kong face structural change to survive Office: 17/F Hang Wai Commercial Building, 231-233 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong Tel: Editorial (852) 2865 1013 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 INDUSTRY ADDENDUM Dominic Lalk Tel: (852) 2865 1013 34 Qantas and Jetstar sign for AFI KLM E&M B787 E-mail: [email protected] component support North Asia Correspondent 34 STELIA and Airbus renew A320 cockpit contract Geoffrey Tudor 34 SIA Engineering Philippines to service Embraer’s Tel: (813) 3373 8368 E-mail: [email protected] E-jets 35 Cathay Pacific buys Honeywell’s GoDirect India Correspondent R. Thomas Connected Maintenance program Tel: (852) 2865 1013 35 Satair Group and Safran Nacelles sign lifetime E-mail: [email protected] COMMENT contract for A340 airliners Photographers 7 Political screws tighten in the Gulf 35 TrueNoord attracts Blackrock as investor for Rob Finlayson, Graham Uden, Ryan Peters Asian expansion ADDENDUM 35 AerFin accepts final three Cathay Pacific A340- Chief Designer Chan Ping Kwan 8 Airbus’ Leahy names Rao as successor 300s 8 Indebted Air India to be privatized says Printing Printing Station(2008) government INDUSTRY SIGHT SPECIAL REPORT 9 HNA Group chairmen Chen Feng mounts charm AIRCRAFT TRAINING IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: AN ADMINISTRATION offensive UPDATE General Manager 9 Airbus unveils long life detachable black box 36 New leadership at Airways Aviation “Down Shirley Ho E-mail: [email protected] recorders Under” set on major role in region’s crew training ADVERTISING NEWS BACKGROUNDERS Asia-Pacific, Europe & Middle East 10 New number cruncher boss to repair Garuda Clive Richardson Indonesia’s finances Tel: (44) 7501 185257 E-mail: [email protected] 16 Narita courts neighbours to advance expansion plans The Americas / Canada Barnes Media Associates 17 Jetstar’s code share model fuels low-cost group’s Ray Barnes growth Tel: (1 434) 770 4108 Fax: (1 434) 927 5101 19 A bad situation in the Gulf worsens E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] 37 Demand for Asia-Pacific cockpit crew increases says CAE global forecast Follow us on Twitter @orientaviation 38 Hong Kong Airlines and L3 CTS establish pilot also - keep up with the news of the week with Orient Aviation’s Week in training program the Asia-Pacific 38 Alpha Aviation adds A330/340 simulator to © All rights reserved Philippines’ Clark training centre Wilson Press HK Ltd., 38 Top Chinese school joins Airbus global university Hong Kong, 2017 program JULY-AUGUST 2017 / ORIENT AVIATION / 5 IAC2017 (202X273).indd 1 7/6/17 5:58 PM COMMENT Political screws tighten in the Gulf For some time several Middle Eastern states have expressed they have said it is their airspace and they are free to choose how disquiet about Qatar’s apparent closeness to Iran, a country it is controlled. alleged to be funding global terrorism. But the decision last Qatar has countered that it is being subjected to a blockade. month by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar Airways group chief executive, Akbar Al Baker, has asked Egypt to deport Qatari diplomats and, in effect, place a blockade the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to intervene on their neighbouring Gulf state took everyone by surprise. on its behalf, but the bottom line is the four states cannot be Banning all flights by Qatar Airways and closing their airspace forced to reverse their decision. They said it is not a blockade to the carrier violates a basic tenet of global aviation – freedom of because Qatar can still fly elsewhere – even though it has to use overflight. more fuel - and added the emirate’s ports are open to shipping. So for carriers in the Gulf and elsewhere the bans were a At press time, an early resolution seemed unlikely after Saudi pointed reminder that politics can so easily shift the goal posts Arabia and the three other states issued 13 demands. They want for airline operations. After the ban was announced, Emirates Qatar to shut down the global Al Jazeera news agency, cut back Airline, Etihad Airways and several carriers in the Gulf had its diplomatic relations with Iran and sever all ties with the Muslim to scramble to adjust their schedules to the new overflight Brotherhood. Qatar has firmly rejected the demands. circumstances. As with any political disruption, unearthing the truth can be They and Qatar Airways had to cancel flights and their difficult. Qatar’s perceived friendship with Iran is its choice, but passengers had to revise their travel itineraries. Qatar was a allegations that it is backing terrorism remains to be proven. particular loser in the process. The airline itself, which has posted But political action can be taken without closing airspace.