‘Airlines Must Meet Challenges As Growth Explodes'

APAC airlines need to keep on investing in fleet modernisation and maintenance to keep aircraft downtime, operational costs, and maintenance costs to a minimum, says Paul Nef, Regional Director, Asia Pacific, Commercial Aviation, Honeywell Aerospace in this conversation with Cruising Heights. He also spoke out on the challenges faced by APAC airlines catering to exponential growth in air travel.

A Level Down For An Upgraded Experience

The race to innovate the cargo hold of airplanes – remember Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s Project Sunrise with its bunk beds and gym – has brought to the forefront Florian Barjot, an aeronautical engineer based in Toulouse, the home of Airbus.

Hyderabad Adds Spicexpress Services

The freighter service will connect Hyderabad with Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai

Change Policy To Lower Logistics Costs

Even as country’s first national Time Release Study (TRS) is conducted to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of international trade flows, the Express Industry Council of India has demanded a change in National Logistics Policy to ensure reduction in air cargo delivery costs, reports Tirthankar Ghosh

Colours Of Freedom– The Airbaltic Way

On August 23, 1989, a unique and peaceful political demonstration took place.

Durgapur Emerges From The Shadows

The first private airport in West Bengal, Durgapur Airport has witnessed unprecedented passenger growth making it the third busiest airport in the state, reports Amartya Sinha

Zunum Zooms Out?

Founded by Ashish Kumar a former Googler, Zunum Aero had ambitious plans for its ZA10 hybrid-electric airliner. It would be a gamechanger in aviation: operating at $250 per flight hour with carbon emissions less than 80 per cent of regional aircraft. All that is now over with the company’s two top investors – Boeing and JetBlue – backing out. Does that mean an end to such cutting edge technology in aviation?

Spreading Its Wings

Barely five years old, Vistara is living up to its name as it ramps up to fly to distant shores. CEO Leslie Thng put it admirably when he said that to make Vistara the best global airline, it would have to fly to more destinations internationally. AMEYA JOSHI takes a look at the Vistara journey so far.

Halted! Boeing's Contender For ‘Sunrise'

It is well known that Airbus and Boeing have been competing to build the world’s longest-range aircraft.

Delhi Airport - Phase 3A For 100 mnpax

The GMR-led Delhi Airport is all set to expand with a fourth runway – the only airport in the country – a bigger T1 apron area and development of a dual elevated Eastern Cross Taxiway (ECT), reports NIDHI SHARMA

BizAv's Green Revolution?

Improving environmental performance is becoming one of industry’s top priority and General Aviation is no exception. The industry has been working on green solutions, including sustainable fuel alternatives — and not just recently.

Air Freight Plunges Further

For the eighth month in a row the global air freight market decreased by 4.8 per cent. Airlines in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East once again suffered the sharpest declines in year-on-year growth in total air freight volumes.

A Landmark Journey By Qantas

The 30th anniversary of Qantas’ record-holding Boeing 747-400 VH-OJA jumbo jet continuous flight from London to Sydney — a marathon journey featuring specially-made fuel and covert planning — was recently marked with a special flight.

'Our Solutions Will Help Connect Far-Flung Places To Hubs All Across India'

JAN WIDERSTROM, Chairman and MD, Saab India talks of their long commitment with India and how with UDAN and more airports coming up where their remote tower systems could work as a preferable solution for operation, the bond is meant to get stronger.

'Working On Industrial, Delivery Plan To Minimise Customer Disruption'

PALASH ROY CHOWDHURY, Managing Director - India, Pratt & Whitney talks of how India -- the pioneer user of geared turbofan engine — has bonded strong with the company with time, be it with customer training Center in Hyderabad or the new bond with YMCA. Also, he gives insight on the engine issues with A320neos

CSIA: Giving Wings To India's Growth Story

Not only the second busiest in the country, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is also one of the most challenging airports to operate anywhere in the world. Managing 980 take-offs and landings in a given day, the airport recorded a number that any other single-runway airport anywhere in the world has ever managed in a 24-hour period.

Celebi Delhi Reaches Out To Kolkata

A bonded trucking initiative linking Kolkata with Delhi has been undertaken by the Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal Management. While it will boost air cargo volumes at Delhi, it will help Kolkata and the North-east to link to the world

Are We A Safe Aviation System?

We are way below global standards of aviation safety, comments CAPT A RANGANATHAN and points out that what the system lacks are professionalism and transparency.

Al Baker, The Blockade Breaker

Were it not for the feisty Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, the Gulf kingdom of Qatar would have starved to death. What is it that makes this aviation honcho tick?

James ‘The Disruptor' - Hogan's The Name

Quite like the swashbuckling hero of the 007 movies he shared his first name with James Hogan’s was a class act at Etihad Airways.

Jetting To Profits – For The Ninth Time

With a strong focus on cost-cutting measures to unburden its huge debt, Jet Airways has reported a net profit of ₹71 crores for the Q2 FY18.

Four To 1000

That’s the story of India’s world-class airline. From 2006, when the airline had one aircraft that flew four flights a day to today with 150 planes making 1000 flights a day, IndiGo’s journey has been one of focus and commitment, writes SHAKTI LUMBA, one of the insiders who has witnessed aviation history in the making.

..And The Winner Is T2

After much dilly dallying and court deliberations, the much talked about Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport started full operations on March 25, 2018 with IndiGo, SpiceJet and Go Air. JAGRITI MONGA takes a close look at what happened.

Pakyong Is Ready, But DGCA Is Not

Landlocked Sikkim now has its own airport in Pakyong. Built painstakingly over the last nine years – the airport has been carved out of a mountain – it recently received two trial flights, an IAF Dornier and a SpiceJet Q400. However, the DGCA is yet to give its go-ahead.

Another Boost For India

With his appointment to the TIACA Board of Directors, air cargo veteran Ramesh Mamidala hopes to improve trade processes and practices that need involvement of various government and trade bodies.

Kempegowda Steps To Become Smart

Committed to a futuristic and innovative vision of The Smart Airport - the Bangalore International Airport will soon become the ‘first in India’ to implement Aadhaar and biometric-enabled entry.

Rise Of The Regional Rajas

Over the last few months, the ambitious regional connectivity has received a boost from SpiceJet and IndiGo, the two top low cost carriers, that are readying to take the pole position to reach the last man at the end of the last mile.

LM's Ready For Tech Transfer

Building on its 25-year-old relationship with India, the US defence manufacturer is committed to shift its Fort Worth, Texas plant to India

First Great Aviation Battle Of The Viking Age

‘Norway’ and ‘cheap’ are two words that rarely go together, yet this Scandinavian country is where Europe's third-largest budget airline first spread its wings: Norwegian. While the legacy carriers continue to moan about the competition from the Gulf, Norwegian is neither moaning nor complaining. On the contrary it is audaciously attempting to fight them and the Big Three in the Gulf with direct long haul flights right into the heart of North America. A special report.

Carriers Brave The Tough Times

Rising fuel costs, induction of more planes, competition and demonetisation played havoc with the financials of carriers in the last quarter of 2016. In fact, while the airlines under review – IndiGo, SpiceJet and Jet Airways – faced problems, all of them look forward to growth with profits in 2017.