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Ready And Willing (To Trade)

With the Commonwealth keen to set up a trade hub in India to promote trade and investment after Brexit, the exim trade can look forward to improved trade relations with Britain

India Mulls Air Corridor To Mongolia

After the success of the air corridor with Afghanistan, landlocked Mongolia could be linked furthering India’s Act East policy to reach out to neighbouring nations

Traffic Choked Megacities, Look To The Sky

Will India’s new-found love for flying spill over to app based heli-taxi services?

Southern Giants Up Their Cargo Game

The Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports have enhanced their cargo facilities. The aim is to make the airports gateways.

'Our Duty Is To Facilitate Infrastructure Even Where There Is Little Commercial Viability'

Realising the importance and growth of the air cargo industry and its impact on the Indian economy, AAI incorporated an integrated logistics network entity last year: AAICLAS. After almost a year of operations, AAICLAS has a new Chief Executive Officer, Keku Bomi Gazder, a veteran in the aviation industry. With close to three decades of experience in airlines operations and having worked with several international airlines across the Middle East, South Asia and the Indian sub-continent region, Gazder is enthusiastic and passionate about his new role. He is positive and believes that AAICLAS will be benchmarked against the best in the world. Excerpts from a conversation:

Air Cargo Deserves Importance

It has been more than a year since Airports Authority of India launched its cargo subsidiary, AAI Cargo Logistics and Allied Services Company Limited. With its aim to become the largest networked and fastest growing logistics solution provider in the country, the cargo logistics company is a realisation — though delayed — by the government that air cargo deserves importance for the part it plays in the nation’s economy.

Saab Handshake With Adani - For Gripen

The news about the collaboration under the ‘Make in India’ programme comes at a crucial moment since Saab has offered its Gripen E as the multirole fighter aircraft that the country has been seeking for quite some time now.

Will Body Scanners Be The Ultimate In Safety?

While body scanners will solve the problems of security and passenger convenience, the idea requires the right permutation and combination to be considered an exemplary example of artificial intelligence.

Turnaround Over, It's Spicejet's Time to Grow

The mega deal with Boeing for 205 planes by SpiceJet marks the beginning of the carrier’s growth story for the future.

Embraer's deliveries up by 38 per cent

Embraer declared that its Legacy 450 mid-light business jet has completed its maiden voyage to Hawaii, from California, a development the company called a historic moment. Moreover, the rise in deliveries has helped 2016 to be a memorable year for Embraer.

Winds of Hope – at Last

The November 2016 air cargo figures showed a rise, leading IATA to comment that the trend was encouraging and would continue in 2017.

BRU to boost pharma, IT from Mumbai

Fulfilling a long-standing demand, the Brussels Airlines connection with Mumbai will not only help the pharma and IT sectors but be a great help for the diamond trade.

Storm Rider Rahul Bhatia

Years of profit and maintaining a lean operations has helped IndiGo’s Rahul Bhatia build up a substantial war chest. Today, that war chest is aiding the airline to keep its head in the skies despite the losses and the inhospitable atmosphere.

Headwinds At Airbus

Never in the last ten years has the European planemaker faced so much uncertainly at the top. The last time such a crisis took place was the A380 crisis of 2006. As it was then, Airbus tackled the problem with a substantial overhaul of its senior management.

'Beam Me Up, Musk'

Come 2050, that iconic catchphrase that made its way into popular culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek, could become reality. This time around, the request will not be from Captain Kirk to his chief engineer, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott but to billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk who is pursuing his dream to set up a human colony on Mars. His Raptor engines have achieved their task. All that remains to be done is their attachment to Starship…

Max And Its Maximum Boycott

Two accidents of the Boeing 737 Max have raised a number of questions: the first and foremost being the speed with which the US planemaker rushed to ensure the commercial debut of the plane. Did the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cut corners to complete its certifications process? A close look at the goings-on in the B737 Max story.

Jet's Slot Factor

Even as Jet Airways stops flying to stations one after another, the question that arises is: Who gets the slots it vacates? Getting and maintaining slots nationally and internationally is a difficult proposition and till now, the beleaguered airline has been trying hard to keep its nose in the air by hanging on to the hardest to obtain airport slots around the world, as AMEYA JOSHI found out.

Now, Chillies From Varanasi To Dubai…

In its move to connect to the last farmer, cargo flights will start receiving Viability Gap Funding and in the process boost incomes in the hinterland.

Wow! It's The End!

Started with hype and fanfare, Skuli Mogensen’s WOW Air – the low-cost long haul carrier – has flown into the sunset. What are the reasons?

Tatas Reach Out To GMR

Airport major GMR had been looking around for investors for quite some time. It finally got the Tatas along with Singapore’s GIC and SSG Capital Management. While the move signifies Tatas’ interest in the aviation business, it also points to a change of direction in the manner in which GMR conducts its business. A report.

Smooth Take-Offs, Smoother Landings

As India gets ready for growth in the skies, work is going on behind the scenes to ease the ‘growing pains’. Even so, a lot more needs to be – and in a hurry…

Love @ Starbucks In Schiphol

When Austin Mann decided to ask his longtime girlfriend to marry him he knew exactly where he wanted to do it. It was the spot where Esther Havens first started to fall in love with him.

Disruptor Cogoport Is Ready

A newcomer in online logistics, the Mumbai-based customer-centric Cogoport has already disrupted ocean logistics and will be stepping into air cargo logistics soon.

Tough Year For Emirates

A‘tough’ year, amid a stuttering economic climate in the Emirate: that is how Emirates Airlines explained a 69 per cent drop in net profits.

India-US Spat Over Ground Handling

In a thud, Indian carriers are no more allowed to do self handling at US airports. This is seen as retaliation under a bilateral air services agreement against denial of similar concession to US passenger airlines here.

The Maharaja's Worth For Bidders!

The national carrier has many takeaways and the government expects the bidders to pay for the good as well as the bad. It is a package deal, agreed. But as bidders find the conditions of the stake sale onerous, the government has come half-way to say that it is willing to change terms.

Enter the Falcon 6X

Pushing the boundaries further with the spacious, advanced and versatile twinjet Falcon 6X, Dassault will set new standards in the long-range large-cabin segment

A Kick-Start For Pharma Exports

The national regulatory body for Indian pharmaceuticals clears the way for exporters by doing away with the No-Objection Certificate for consignments meant for foreign markets.

Where Does Trump Fly From Here?

Watch and wait... Trump has threatened to tighten the screws of all businesses nonAmerican but will he? Will the shrewd businessman that he is stop him from overturning trade alliances and turning off the supply chain that American aviation giants depend on? A close look

Air Carnival Goes Bankrupt

Air Carnival Goes Bankrupt