Monday, 31 December 2012

Ryanair Expanding Presence In Germany Through Dortmund And Nuremberg





Ryanair is planning to expand its presence in Germany through the launch of operations at Dortmund andNuremberg in Mar-2013 and Apr-2013.

This expansion will see Ryanair become the third largest carrier at Dortmund Airport, challengingGermanwings for second place behind Wizz Air, with its initial six routes. Ryanair will also become the third largest carrier at Nuremberg, behind airberlin and Lufthansa.

Ryanair’s entry into Nuremberg will again give the airport a significant LCC presence while strengthening its western European connections with six new routes. Meanwhile, Lufthansa’s transfer of some European services to Germanwings in 2013 will see Ryanair face more intense competition across its German network.

In Oct-2012, Ryanair announced plans to launch services to Dortmund Airport and said six new routes will deliver over 200,000 passengers annually at the airport. Ryanair plans to initially operate 14 weekly frequencies at Dortmund, which it estimates will support 200 on-site jobs at the airport.

This was followed one month later with Ryanair’s Nuremberg announcement. Europe’s largest low-cost carrier said it expects the 20 weekly frequencies it will initially operate on six routes from Nuremberg will deliver up to 280,000 passengers to the airport annually and sustain over 280 on-site jobs.



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Sunday, 30 December 2012

Sky Aviation To Receive First SSJ-100 In January



Sky Aviation will receive its first Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) from Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company in January 2013.
Sky Aviation, the first domestic carrier to operate the SSJ-100, has ordered 12 planes at a cost of more than US$380 million. Three more are expected in Indonesia by March.
An SSJ-100 crashed into Mount Salak, near Bogor, in West Java, during an exhibition flight in May. Forty five people, including the plane’s crew, journalists and businessmen were killed. A recent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) concluded that the Russian-made aircraft is safe. The crash was caused by pilot error.
Sky Aviation currently operates 10 aircraft of various types such as the Boeing 737-300, Fokker 100, Cessna Grand Caravan and Cyrus. The company serves several routes, including Batam, Pangkalpinang in Bangka, Natuna in Riau Islands and Labuan Bajo in Flores.


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Kingfisher Airlines Pilots Pin Hope On Captain Gopinath's Aviation Venture




MUMBAI: With little hope of being airborne again in the near future, a section of Kingfisher Airlines BSE -1.80 % pilots are now pinning their hopes on the erstwhile Deccan Air founder Capt Gopinath's proposed new carrier and making frequent enquirers about its launch.

"With airlines like Jet Airways BSE -0.39 %, SpiceJet BSE 2.64 %, IndiGo and GoAir not hiring, Kingfisher pilots, who along with other employees have not been paid for the last eight months, are now hinging their hopes on Gopinath's new aviation venture," sources said.

Some pilots are already in touch with Gopinath while others are betting on Kingfisher's revival amidst talk of Mallya trying to rope in a foreign partner, they said.

"First, we don't expect this (Kingfisher) airline to take off in the near future. And even if it does, it will be a low-scale operations as the management has suggested in the revival plan. How long we will have to sit without flying is anybody's guess," pilots, unwilling to be named, said.

For the records, Vijay Mallya-promoted carrier now owes eight months salary to its staff, despite a written assurance by its chief executive Sanjay Aggarwal that salary arrears of the staff till June would be remitted before Christmas.

Aggarwal had promised the pilots that they would be paid their May salary before Diwali (November 14). In a settlement reached earlier, employees were to be paid their April salaries by 31 October and May salary by November 12. Salaries for the months of June-September were to be paid once the company is recapitalized.

From October on, the company was supposed to pay salaries a month late, which means the October salary will be paid by the last week of December, he had assured then, following which the almost a month-long agitation by pilots and engineers was called off.
"Let alone June salary, a good number of pilots have not received even payment for May also," they said.


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Saturday, 29 December 2012

Cessna Creating New Product 'Pipeline' To Prepare For Future Market




Cessna’s plan to bring up to six new or improved aircraft to market in 2013 is part of an overall strategy to build a new pipeline of products that will arrive just as the market for light and midsized aircraft is expected to strengthen, executives say. But it is also designed to build consumer confidence in a market that has remained uncertain for the past several years, executives say.

“During the downturn, we worked very, very hard to continue new product development, says Brad Thress, senior vice president-business jets for Cessna. “It was important to demonstrate to the market our confidence [in its future]. It was important to reassure our customers.”

Cessna has a full plate of clean-sheet and follow-on aircraft projects, ranging from the diesel version of the Turbo Skylane single-engine aircraft to the super midsize business jet, the Citation Longitude.

Cessna parent Textron has boosted research and development (R&D) spending by as much as 30% throughout the corporation in recent years. That ramp-up has included Cessna, which Thress says is a “vote of confidence” for the Wichita airframer. While sales have gone down, R&D spending has increased – and is near an all-time high as a percentage of sales, Cessna executives say.

The spending is laying the foundation for the new slate of products. In 2013 alone, the company is planning to certify a new Sovereign and Citation X that will incorporate Garmin G5000 avionics, integrated automatic throttles and the Cessna Clarity cabin.

In addition, the Mustang step-up M2 is on target for certification in the first half of the year. Cessna further will begin shipment of the re-engined, more powerful Grand Caravan EX, reintroduce an improved Corvalis TTx to the market and bring online the diesel Turbo Skylane JT-A.

The Citation X was among the first of the new products introduced since the downturn began, unveiled during the 2010 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual convention, in part as testimony that the company was investing in the future.

At the time, the company was holding off on introducing other new products, saying the timing was not right in a depressed market. “When you announce a new product, it usually generates a pretty strong order flow,” Scott Donnelly, chairman, president and CEO of Textron, had said at the time. “We don’t want to announce a new upgrade, block-point change or new aircraft if we don’t thing there’s going to be a reasonable level of commercial interest out the door.”
But a number of programs were already under way, Donnelly had assured analysts, and since that time, Cessna has lifted the floodgates, detailing at least nine other projects that span every one of its segments.




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Russian Plane Crashes Into Road Outside Moscow


A Russian passenger plane has crashed into a main road after overshooting a runway at a Moscow airport, killing at least four people, police say.
Reports said there were between eight and 12 crew on board the Red Wings Tupolev-204, flight number RWZ9268, which was landing at Vnukovo airport.
Images of the scene show the aircraft split into several pieces, with the cockpit on the road.
Four people were severely injured, emergency officials said.
The dead were two pilots, a flight engineer and an air stewardess.
The plane's tail and cockpit had broken off but the fuselage was largely intact.
There were fire engines at the scene and smoke could be seen rising from parts of the wreckage.
The plane had arrived in Moscow from the Czech Republic, government officials said.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an investigation into the cause of the crash.
There was light snow in the area on Saturday afternoon, though it was not known if that played any role.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg, in Moscow, says investigators are looking into three possible causes - bad weather, technical failure and pilot error.
The Tupolev-204 is a modern Russian passenger jet with a good safety record and a capacity to hold more than 200 passengers.



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Directorate General Of Civil Aviation Team Clears Plane,Trainee Pilot


NAGPUR: A team of two safety officers from Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) cleared both, the Cessna plane and the trainee pilot for flying, subject to some conditions. The team was here to investigate the skidding of Cessna training plane - Charlie 172 - of the Nagpur Flying Club (NFC).
"The team from Mumbai came on December 24 and on December 26 they gave a written clearance. The condition is that the plane, Cessna 172 R should be inspected by an external engineer and the trainee pilot should be given a clearance after flying under the chief flying inspector (CFI)," said MAH Khan, NFC in-charge.
Both, the aircraft and the trainee pilot were grounded after the skid on November 30. Trainee pilot Captain Rohit Sinha took off for a solo training session at 2.20pm and the incident occurred while he was landing at 3.06pm.
He and the NFC claimed that there was a dog on the runway because of which the plane swerved off the run way. But some sources said that the pilot did not inform the Air Traffic Control (ATC) about the animal on the run way.
Though the DGCA has cleared the plane and pilot as fit for flying it has not said anything about the reason of the skid. Officials said that the DGCA officers met the officials of ATC and Mihan India Limited (MIL) which maintains the runway separately and a report will be filed later.
Khan informed that an engineer has been called from Bhopal for the inspection of the plane. "After getting clearance from the external engineer, the plane will be put to use again. I don't think there will be any problem with that as there was no damage to it," he said.
He also added that Captain Sinha will also be cleared for flying once he completes a 5 hour inspection flying under the CFI.



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Friday, 28 December 2012

DGCA To Ask For More Details From Kingfisher On Its Finances


Aviation regulator DGCA would soon seek additional details from Kingfisher Airlines regarding its finances, with Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Wednesday saying the cash-strapped carrier's parent firm UB Group has not disclosed anything regarding funding.

As Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) examined the beleaguered carrier's revival plan submitted two days ago, the Minister said its 'financial picture is still not clear. UB Group has not said anything on the funding of KFA. (Q,N,C,F)* Its plan is not backed by any clear funding proposal.'

Official sources said DGCA would soon seek additional details regarding the funding plan and hold talks with Kingfisher's creditors and airport operators before deciding on its application seeking permission to relaunch its services.




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Airline Pilots Falling Asleep In Cockpit Because Of Fatigue


Pilots have been falling asleep in the cockpit because of shift patterns which can see them at the controls of an aircraft 23 hours after waking up, a study has found. Another pilot who has flown both intercontinental and short haul European flights, recalled falling into what he described as a “microsleep.”

He added: “Everything was closing in, then you would awake with a jolt. You try to keep awake by drinking stronger and stronger coffee.”

Their experience is commonplace according to Dr Bennett. “It is not unknown for pilots to unintentionally fall asleep while operating,” he said.

According to the British Airline Pilots Association, the European proposals would increase the number of hours flying crew could spend at work from 16 hours 15 minutes a day to 20 hours.

The pilots’ union says the changes would water down Britain’s safeguards, which are among the strictest in Europe.

At the heart of the debate is whether the time pilots spend getting to work should be taken into account.

Dr Bennett, who has been involved in aviation safety for more than a decade, believes it should.

He surveyed 433 pilots, with the help of the union, carrying out interviews and asking volunteers to compile sleep logs.

He asked pilots to include time they spent getting to the airport ahead of reporting for duty – something which is not taken into account in existing or the proposed flying hours regulations.

More than half the pilots travelled at least an hour to get to the airport before starting their shift.

These hours are not taken into account when drawing up safety rules, even though it can mean pilots are in control of an aircraft having had little sleep.

More than 50 per cent of pilots have been in control of an aircraft after being awake for 23 hours according to an academic study. A fifth said they were flying 28 hours after getting up.

Nearly eight per cent of the pilots who participated in the study admitted they had been involved in a road accident driving home at the end of their shift, Dr Bennett said.

On pilot who took part in the study said he had “nodded off” over the Isle of Wight on his approach to Gatwick.

“The reality is that pilots commute huge distances to get to work and the same to get home. But if I raise this in Westminster or in Europe, the response is that the airlines are abiding by the rules.”

Pilots reported feeling groggy, dizzy, light-headed and confused because of the long days they endured.

One described feeling “Punch-drunk. Utterly exhausted. Incapacitated.”

The pilot added: “I checked straight into a hotel and didn't even drive home. The trouble with long-haul flying is you simply cannot predict how tired you will be at the end of a flight.”

Louise Ellman, the chairman of the all-party Transport Select Committee at Westminster, was alarmed by the findings.

“This increases concern that pilots are being asked to fly too long and gives added urgency for the need to review these proposals,” said

“The Government should be more active in arguing for a better deal.”

Simon Buck, chief executive of the British Air Transport Association, which represents the industry, declined to get involved in the debate.

“Flying time is a matter for the UK Authorities and it is up to them to specify the measures which are appropriate.”




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Thursday, 27 December 2012



Dubai International operator Dubai Airports predicts the rapidly growing hub airport will handle 66 million passengers in 2013, compared with a forecast total of 56.5 million for this year.

Dubai Airports says passenger throughput hit just over 4.87 million in November 2012, marking a 10% increase compared with the same month a year earlier. The airport - which serves as the home base for Emirates Airline - has posted double-digit growth in passenger numbers in all but two months of the year so far.

"We are all set to surpass our target of 56.5 million passengers [for 2012] by a margin, taking us closer to operating Dubai International at full capacity," says Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports.

"It is no coincidence that Concourse A, the Airbus A380 facility that underwent operational readiness trials recently, will open in early 2013 providing much needed capacity," he adds.

Concourse A is part of the Terminal 3 complex which will increase Dubai International's annual passenger capacity from 60 million to 75 million.

Year-to-date traffic for November was 52.4 million compared with 46.3 million for the same period last year, representing an increase of 13.1%.

Aircraft movements in November increased by 2.3%, to 29,700, while year-to-date movements were up 5.6% to 313,000.

Dubai International handled 200,060t of cargo in November, an increase of 4.4% compared with the same month in 2011.





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Wednesday, 26 December 2012


Air India Boeing 747-400 VT-EVB


Aviacon Zitotrans  Ilyushin Il-76TD RA-76846


 
 Emirates Airbus A330-200 A6-EKS
Spice Jet Boeing 737-800 VT-SPU




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Tuesday, 25 December 2012




Air India has a loan of over Rs 47,000 crore and 95 services of the national carrier were not even meeting the cash cost of the operations, government said on Tuesday.

In reply to a written question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Ministry K C Venugopal said as on July 31, the loans taken by Air India amounted to Rs 47,226 crore.
He said the government was not considering to waive off these loans.

In reply to a separate question about route profitability, the Minister said between April-October, as per the route economics prepared by the airline, 95 flights on its network were not meeting their cash cost. "82 flight services were meeting cash cost but not the total cost while only 12 services were meeting the total cost," he said.

When asked about the aircraft employee ratio, the Minister said Air India had a ratio of 1:237 and there was no benchmark for the same in the industry.




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Monday, 24 December 2012



In an interview with ET Now, SL Narayanan, Group CFO, Sun Group, shares his views on the aviation industry, and talks about the status of stake sale in Spice Jet as well as the group's future plans and growth targets. Excerpts: 

What is the status of stake sale in Spice Jet?

It will be very difficult to give any kind of statement on this because of the various sensitivities and we are not supposed to indulge in any kind of encouragement of a speculative frenzy which has already gripped the entire sector. 

We should just leave it at this time. The good news is that the industry is doing a lot better, which is perhaps a reason why more investors from abroad are taking a slightly more favorable look at the Indian aviation players. 


What is the stage currently? Are you still exploring a buyer or can we expect a deal anytime soon? 

In fact, this is something which needs very careful elaboration because we will need capital in future. There was a certain capital expenditure plan that was drafted a couple of years ago at which time the industry was growing gangbusters and then we had this extraordinary situation where everybody was losing an arm and a leg. 

The whole industry is looking at slightly more modest rate of growth, perhaps single digit growth rates and not the 15%-16% growth rate that we thought would continue for at least the foreseeable future. Therefore, that apex plan needs to be re-calibrated, but we would still require additional capital.

So we will be evaluating several options, including looking at a possible strategic investor. Nothing is happening at this time and because there has been a favorable development with respect to FDI flows, they have been more than just curious phone calls. So somewhere that has been misinterpreted to a deal in the offing.




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Financially stretched Kingfisher Airlines on Monday submitted its revival plans to the aviation regulator which had cancelled its flying licence over safety concerns. "They (Kingfisher Airlines) submitted their revival plans to the director general of civil aviation (DGCA) in a meeting held today (Monday)," a civil aviation ministry source said.
The company, however, refused to comment on the development. The aviation regulator October 20 suspended the operating licence of the airlines, citing the passenger carrier's inability to provide any reasonable revival plans.
The airline was then asked to prepare a credible revival plan and present it to the DGCA, which will take a final call on restoring the airline's operating licence. The regulator had also rejected the carrier's winter schedules for flight departures. The airline had in 2011 a departure rate of 2,930 flights per week, but has since reduced capacity due to mounting debt and an exodus of employees.



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Airbus’ A320 aircraft family – which is recognised worldwide as the benchmark single-aisle jetliner product line – will be even more fuel-efficient and eco-friendly with a new engine option now being offered to customers. 
Designated the A320neo, this option provides the minimum change with maximum benefit for the best-selling A319, A320 and A321 through the availability of two new jet engine choices – CFM International’s LEAP-X and the PW1100G PurePower from Pratt & Whitney – along with the use of Airbus’ large Sharklets wing tip devices. 
Improvements with the A320neo include a 15 per cent reduction in fuel consumption, two tonnes of additional payload, up to 500 nautical miles of more range, lower operating costs, along with reductions in engine noise and emissions.



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