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.