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Dubai Airshow 2017: Future Of Travel Is Evolving!

The biennial Dubai Airshow 2017 was an important event this time around, reports AJAY AWTANEY. The aviation industry was coming off a dry Dubai Airshow 2015, and the region’s airlines were coming through with a rough patch with geopolitical and economic issues of their own. But Dubai Airshow 2017 promised to unveil the Future of Travel, and it was par for the course indeed!

KC-390 Tests The Winds

A serious contender in the military tactical airlifter market, the KC-390 is the largest aircraft developed by Embraer. The aircraft is undergoing tests and has arrived in US. Also, is targeting Initial Operational Capability by end of 2017.

Helicopters To Reach Far Flung Places

While helicopter operations were not part of the first round of Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) at all, for UDAN II, the government received 141 initial proposals for air services, including 33 for helicopter operations, on 502 routes.

Watch Out, But Back In

Watch Out, But Back In

Oman Air's Serious About Cargo

Long considered the little brother of the Middle East’s ‘Big Three’, Oman Air is focusing on India to boost its cargo operations

Ease Of Doing Cargo

Among the 190 countries surveyed in The World Bank’s Doing Business 2018 report has seen India shooting up from its 130th position in 2017 to 100th in 2018 – a massive leap indeed. What does this mean to the air cargo community?

Brand India @ FWC-2018

Preparations are on for the mega FIATA World Congress 2018 to be held in Delhi and the Federation of Freight Forwarders' Associations in India has started the process at the recent international meet in Malaysia.

E-tail's Massive Boost To Domestic Cargo

Intra-India air cargo has a huge potential but challenges to growth exist. Till infrastructure is ramped up or created in Tier-2 or Tier-3 cities, the e-commerce business will continue to use surface transport.

BIAL Innovates For Engaging Pax Experience

To transform the passenger experience and create a future-ready airport, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) and Accenture recently tiedup for a co-innovation centre at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru.

Creating Smarter Airports And Airlines

A whopping $33 billion will be invested by airports and airlines for IT in 2017, according to SITA’s latest Air Transport IT Trends Insights. Although a major share will go to boost cyber security, ways to provide extra self-service options to passengers will also be a part of the investments.

Easy Fly-Ins, Easy Fly-Outs

A very promising and lucrative market, business aviation in India, claim industry experts and watchers as well as stakeholders, has not been able to take off the way it should.

AAI Looks To Begin Afresh

It took quite a while for the Airports Authority of India to cancel the controversial Ground Handling tender. This, despite the fact that thrice, over the last six months, Cruising HeigHts had highlighted that everything was not above board in the tender process. In this, perhaps, the last chapter of the AAI tender saga, TIRTHANKAR GHOSH pieces together the moves that brought about the end to the tender process and the way forward.

Falling Numbers

Jet Airways’ closure has meant a decline in the earnings of the country’s top airports, especially Delhi and Mumbai. Taking a look at the diminishing numbers at most airports, AMEYA JOSHI points out that while it will take some time to get back to the growth path that existed for the last five years, every airport operator will have to bear up with lower passenger service fee (PSF) and User Development Fee (UDF).

New Head, Old Challenges

The country has a new government and a new Minister for Civil Aviation in Hardeep Singh Puri. He has a whole lot of challenges to tackle, beginning with Air India. AMEYA JOSHI lists out the challenges the new government faces in civil aviation.

A Diplomat In The Cockpit!

Hardeep Puri is the man in command as the country's new Civil Aviation Minister. A profile.

November '17 Sees Healthy Air Cargo Demand

Underpinned by the improving global economic conditions and world trade with increasing import and export orders, air cargo demonstrated a strong rebound in 2017, according to preliminary figures released recently by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

Big Bird Lives To Tell The Tale

With no orders in 2017, Airbus' A380 line was ready to shut down. Emirates came like the chivalrous knight and performed the rescue act...

Air Deccan 2.0: Smaller And Wiser

The pioneer of low cost air travel in the country, Capt G R Gopinath, is on his second innings with Air Deccan 2.0. AJAY AWTANEY, who flew from Mumbai to Nashik recently, finds out how different the new Air Deccan is.

Positions That Fliers Love

Dramatic advances in aircraft seating technology are allowing airlines to offer more comfortable aircraft cabins than ever before

Record CFM Orders But Shortfall Continues

CFM remains confident about ramping up output this year. The engine maker is also handling queries from aircraft manufacturers about potential future increases in demand.

Will Our Airports Be Secure?

The recent bombings in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has raised the question of security. It is in such a situation that the recent Airports Authority of India (AAI) tender for Ground Handling assumes importance. While a senior official has been caught by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly demanding a bribe from a ground handling company, many questions still remain unanswered. TIRTHANKAR GHOSH asks why to simply accommodate a handful of favoured few participants, officials, for reasons best known to them, went out of their way to welcome entities with questionable security clearances in the most security-sensitive zones in our country: Airports.

VR Prescription For Faulty Engines

The ways in which VR is being applied in the aviation industry are extremely useful and varied. Commercial aircraft faults are now being enhanced by the use of VR simulations, along with aviation training, component design, and several other uses. And now, Rolls-Royce and Qatar Airways are using Virtual Reality (VR) to train engineers, in a first for the two companies.

Simulation Can Augment Indian Aviation

As the Indian aviation industry story plays out, it is important that safety should be the topmost priority and simulation is a process that can help meet all the challenges.

Air Cargo - Readying For The Future

Representing prominent players from the air cargo fraternity in the country, the Air Cargo Forum India’s recent conference has set the ball rolling for India to become the third largest in the movement of both cargo and passenger traffic.