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Connect with us 43277_P&W_GTF_GearedForFuture_SPsAirBuz.indd 1 1/4/17 3:19 PM Client: Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines Ad Title: PurePower® GTF™ Engine Publication: SP’s Air Buz - Feb/Mar Trim: 210 x 267 mm • Bleed: 220 x 277 mm TABLE OF CONTENTS INDUSTRY / FORECAST REGIONAL SAFETY IN PUREPOWER, P8 CHINA, INDIA DRIVE AVIATION AVIATION: BUSINESS GAME-CHANGING SET TO SURGE! AVIATION ENGINE Cover: P 18 P 20 P 27 GROWTH IN ASIA The surge in travel by the FEBRUARY-MARCH 2017 `100.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) VOLUME 10 • ISSUE 1 WWW.SPSAIRBUZ.COM ANAIRBUZ EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE ON CIVIL AVIATION FROM INDIA AERO INDIA 2017 middle class in Asia is the SPECIAL MEET US AT The surge in travel by the middle class HALL AB (AB3.46) main reason for airline in Asia is the main reason for airline operators to go on an operators to go on an expansion expansion binge. binge. Besides India and China the Cover Image: AVIATION GROWTH IN ASIA other countries in Asia where hectic AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION SP Guide Pubns RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 aviation activity is going on include SP's AirBuz Cover 1-2017.indd 1 10/02/17 6:16 PM Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. TECHNOLOGY / AIRCRAFT P10 RISE OF THE SUPERSONIC MACHINES Without much fanfare and without the hype associated with the Concorde, supersonic models have been evolving and the Concorde’s successor may be close to its first commercial flight. TECHNOLOGY / ENGINES P16 TECHNOLOGY / AVIONICS P13 POWERFUL ENGINES FUSED REALITY The world’s top jet engine makers are indeed P20 BUSINESS AVIATION / AIR SAFETY investing heavily in research and development SAFETY IN BUSINESS AVIATION efforts to rake in from the mega orders that are P23 AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT / BERIEV being placed globally by airlines. BE-200ES IN SERIAL PRODUCTION P24 AIRPORTS / INFRASTRUCTURE LEAN AIRPORTS FOR REMOTE & REGIONAL AVIATION P30 AIR CARGO / OPERATORS UNTAPPED FREIGHTER POTENTIAL DEPARTMENTS P2 A WORD FROM EDITOR P3 NEWS BRIEFS P32 FINALLY REGIONAL AVIATION / RCS ENGINES / P&W P18 REGIONAL AVIATION: SET TO SURGE! P27 PUREPOWER, GAME-CHANGING ENGINE UDAN seems an attractive scheme to tap the immense potential of regional aviation The PurePower PW1000G is currently and should lead to a welcome increase of selected as the exclusive engine for the regional travellers. But the way ahead is not Bombardier CSeries, MRJ and Embraer’s free of hurdles. second-generation E-Jets. SP’S AIRBUZ • ISSUE 1 • 2017 • 1 A WORD FROM EDITOR PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jayant Baranwal EDITOR Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd) ASSISTANT GROUP EDITOR R. Chandrakanth (Bengaluru) CONTRIBUTORS Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd) Group Captain Joseph Noronha (Retd) S.R. Swarup, Vasuki Prasad Shriniwas Mishra HE MEGA EVENT RELATED to aviation is on at the Air Force Station in CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR Yelahanka, Karnataka, but is weighted largely in favour of military aviation with Jayant Baranwal minimal participation by the civil aviation industry. However, the Indian civil PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT aviation industry and especially the airline industry component has been on a Executive Vice President: Rohit Goel growth trajectory over the last one year or so. With the new integrated National ADMIN & COORDINATION TCivil Aviation Policy (NCAP) released by the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) in June last Bharti Sharma year, there has been a decisive shift of focus to regional aviation. Driven by the Regional ASST - ADMIN, HR & INFRA Connectivity Scheme (RCS), which, as a part of the NCAP, is designed to exploit the poten- Pooja Tehlani tial of this segment of the industry to unleash the next phase of growth. A detailed report CREATIVE DIRECTOR by Joseph Noronha on regional aviation including the RCS has been included in this issue. Anoop Kamath The Boeing Company of the US sees both India and China, the two regional giants, as GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Vimlesh Kumar Yadav the primary drivers of growth in the airline industry thereby boosting demand for airlin- Sonu Singh Bisht ers for both transcontinental and regional aviation. In this issue of SP’s AirBuz, there is a Designer (3D animation): Kunal Verma detailed analysis by R. Chandrakanth of the evolving market for airliners in the region. Research Asst/Graphics: Survi Massey Chandrakanth also takes a look at the air cargo segment of the industry. He finds that SALES & MARKETING the air cargo market in India is in the expansion mode and is driven to a large extent by Director Sales & Marketing: Neetu Dhulia General Manager Sales: Rajeev Chugh e-commerce. However, as yet, there are only two dedicated air cargo companies in India, sP’s websiTes namely Blue Dart Aviation and QuikJet Cargo Airlines. As compared to the air passenger Sr Web Developer: Shailendra Prakash Ashish segment of the industry, the air cargo segment is indeed lagging behind. This segment too Web Developer: Ugrashen Vishwakarma has immense potential for growth that is waiting to be exploited. © SP Guide Publications, 2017 One of the most remarkable achievements in the history of the global airline indus- SUBSCRIPTION/ CIRCULATION try had been the introduction in January 1976 of the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic Annual Inland: `600 • Foreign: US$180 airliner. This platform had substantially reduced travel time on transcontinental routes. E-mail: [email protected] Unfortunately, about a decade-and-a-half ago, this innovation met with its tragic demise [email protected] owing to high operational cost as well as some disastrous mishaps. Currently, despite LETTER TO EDITOR phenomenal advances in technology, there is no supersonic passenger aircraft available [email protected] anywhere in the world. However, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administra- FOR ADVERTISING DETAILS CONTACT tion (NASA) is embarked on the development a supersonic airliner and the world may [email protected] [email protected] soon get to experience a supersonic commercial flight. A detailed report on the subject by SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD A.K. Sachdev figures in this issue. A-133 Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), Advances in computer technology had led to new methods of providing an environ- New Delhi 110003, India. ment in flying training that is as close to the real world as possible. Research in this field Tel: +91 (11) 24644693, 24644763, 24620130 in the West has led to the development of what is described as “Fused Reality”. This inno- Fax: +91 (11) 24647093 vation, which was developed initially for military aviation, is now being adapted for use E-mail: [email protected] in civil aviation as well. It has helped in resolving conflicts and eliminating problems in BENGALURU, INDIA this regime for aviators by blending simulation and actual flying. This is also described 204, Jal Vayu Vihar, Kalyan Nagar Bengaluru 560043, India. as ‘overlaid simulation’. An analytical study by Sachdev of this highly complex technology Tel: +91 (80) 23682204 has been included in this issue. www.spguidepublications.com All this and more in this issue of SP’s AirBuz. Welcome aboard and happy landings. Do visit us at Aero India 2017 in Hall AB (AB 3.46) in Bengaluru. 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. MEMBER OF: B.K. Pandey APPLIED FOR Editor 2 • SP’S AIRBUZ • ISSUE 1 • 2017 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 that some vested interests might have been another Bengaluru-based start-up airline at work to tarnish the image of the Indian Flyeasy, has joined hands with Air Pegasus national carrier which has been perform- to form a strategic partnership and has de- AIR INDIA NON-VIABLE, BURDEN ON ing well in recent times and even reported cided to pick up a majority 74 per cent stake TAXPAYER an operating profit of `105 crore in the last in the joint venture. With Flyeasy seeking to It was no surprise that Air India was ranked financial year,” it said. invest in the regional carrier, for which key the world’s third worst airline in an interna- “The report has been made public at discussions are underway, the airline will be tional survey on the basis of factors like cab- a time when Air India has just announced commencing its original flight plan, serving in quality, service quality and flight delays. major expansion plans by way of induction Bengaluru-Hubballi, Bengaluru-Chennai, The airline has taken strong exception to of new aircraft and commencement of new Bengaluru-Mangaluru, Bengaluru-Madurai, the report and has termed it as a conspiracy international and domestic stations,” Air Bengaluru-Thiruvananthapuram and to malign it.