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BUT MANAGER – HR & ADMIN (Photo: Lufthansa Technik) PAGE 11 Bharti Sharma ASSISTANT MANAGER – HR & ADMIN COVER DESIGN BY MUCHLUFTHANSA TECHNIK, CELEBRATING MORE ITS 25TH YEAR IN 2020, Pooja Tehlani SP’s Design RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 OFFERS RELIABLE SERVICE AND FULFILMENT DEPUTY MANAGER – CIRCULATION Rimpy Nischal SP's Aviation Cover 4-2020.indd 1 11/05/20 8:01 AM GROUP RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Survi Massey RESEARCH ASSISTANT Sarthak Baranwal COVID-19 15 Business DESIGN Current Scenario in India Holistic Directions: Jayant Baranwal 4 Military Creative Director: Anoop Kamath Designers: Vimlesh Kumar Yadav, The Indian Air Force Response Sonu S. Bisht 19 Taxation GROUP DIRECTOR – SALES & MARKETING 7 Business Aviation Finally – Boost For Industry Neetu Dhulia Way Forward DEPUTY DIRECTOR – SALES OEM Rajeev Chugh 24 Airlines SP’S WEBSITES Indian Airline Industry After 21 Merger Sr Web Developer: Shailendra P. 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Even during this torrid Corona crisis, The lockdown at the national level imposed by the Government Lufthansa Technik continues to provide reliable services and of India commencing on March 25 is still in place. The effect of fulfillment based on a solid network of global MRO operations the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled practically all segments in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific and a vast network of of the Indian economy, especially the Indian airline industry, as subcontractors. all domestic and international flights have been stopped. It will A major event in the global aerospace and defence industry be difficult to predict the timeframe in which the airlines can earlier this year has been the merger of Raytheon and United hope to get back on their feet and the nation can hope to effect Technologies Corporation. This historic merger has created the economic recovery. In this issue, Wing Commander R.K. Yadav world’s most advanced aerospace and defence systems pro- gives us an overview on the impact of COVID-19 on the Indian vider known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation. This new Airlines industry. enterprise is expected to transform the aerospace and defence Another segment that has been adversely affected by the landscape the world over and is expected to become a dominant COVID-19 pandemic is the Business Aviation sector. This issue global supplier to military and civil customers. A detailed report of SP’s Aviation carries a detailed analysis of the problem by by Ayushee Chaudhary on the merger has been included in this Rohit Kapur, the former President of BAOA. He has catalogued issue of the magazine. the plight of this sector and has made a number of practical All this and more in this issue of SP’s Aviation. Wish you suggestions to solve the problem, clearly bringing out the steps better days ahead without the menace of the COVID-19 global that the government needs to take. pandemic and many happy landings when the Indian civil avia- In the prevailing situation, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has tion industry is back on track! stepped in to provide the much needed relief by transporting Jai Hind! medicines, medical equipment and medical personnel on a large scale to every part of this country and even abroad. A report by Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd) on the role of the IAF in the battle against the COVID-19 is also included. March 14, 2020, will be marked as a landmark day for the MRO sector in India when the GST council, in an attempt to boost the Indian MRO industry, reduced the GST on MRO services from 18 to 5 per cent. This is seen as a huge support for the flounder- ing Indian MRO sector and hopefully make India as a MRO hub, at least in South Asia. The current MRO scenario in India is cata- logued in this issue by Anil Chopra while there is an analysis by JAYANT BARANWAL Pulak Sen on the effect of this reduced GST on the sector. In this issue we have interviewed Gerald Steinhoff, Sr. Vice PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Owned, published and printed by Jayant Baranwal, printed at Kala Jyothi Process Pvt Ltd and published at FOLLOW US ON A-133, Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Colony), New Delhi 110003, India. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, photocopying, recording, electronic, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Publishers. @SPsAviation SPPublications 2 ISSUE 4 • 2020 www.sps-aviation.com NEWS WITH VIEWS NEWS NEW RUNWAY AT KEMPEGOWDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FULLY OPERATIONAL The new runway, called the South Runway, at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) which was restricted to limited operations since its commissioning in December last year, is now equipped to handle both arrivals and departures. When it was commissioned on December 6, 2019, it was only handling departures and in the initial days the operations were confined to second half of the day. “The South Runway will begin with limited landings and takeoffs before gradually scaling up flight operations. The runway will initially have CAT I certification and, as operations stabilise, will progressively manage CAT III B operations, enabling landing and takeoff in extremely low visibility conditions,” the airport operators had said when the runway was commissioned. However, now it has been handling both arrivals and departures. VIEWS In the years following the liberalisation of the Indian issued for the installation, testing and commissioning of Cat-III aviation sector, a number of private airlines emerged on the scene system for the old runway. However, this work will entail closure beginning in the mid 1990s.