Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews 21-Sep-2017 Chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra speaks exclusively to  Jane’s  about a new strategic direction for the AAI As air traffic grows exponentially with the rise of budget carriers, and new opportunities emerge for industry, the Airports Authority of  India  (AAI) is implementing a Corporate Plan for the next decade (2017 to 2026). AAI manages 125 airports, including 21 with international traffic. After years of slow gestation, the Corporate Plan will guide the AAI to deliver the Civil Aviation Policy, including the Regional Connectivity Scheme for developing second-tier regional and remote airports. The AAI plan also places emphasis on ..........Read more in Jane's .........In particular, the AAI will spend about ....... Also at Delhi, the consultancy division of  UK  air navigation service provider ..... Read more in Jane's

Neelam Mathews  21 September 2017 The government of Vietnam has reaffirmed its intention to sell a 20% stake in Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) in 2018, followed by a further 10.4% divestment in 2020. By then, traffic through Vietnamese airports will exceed 100 million including 82 million domestic passengers, investment management firm VinaCapital calculates. In August 2017, the government included ACV in a list of 406 state-owned enterprises to be partially or fully divested by 2020. ADP Group (formerly Aéroports de Paris) is expected to......Read more in JAR....

Neelam Mathews Sept 21, 2017 A recent visit to Jaipur Airport as part of  Girls in Aviation Day rather well organised by the WAI India chapter, made me think. We 'older guys' or 'seniors'  as we are often referred to- by the way hate the reference-not because I'm not one, but because it gives a connotation that we know it all. Yet, do we? All our events are to give 'Gyan' or knowledge to the millennials but do we stop and think, we need to learn from them. Because if we do not, how can we market ideas or anything to them? At Jaipur, we did it the other way round and the learning was immense. My sincere thanks to the smart disciplined girls and their teacher of Subhodh Public School that could teach us metro types a thing or two about how to queue, not to push, be disciplined and end up being at peace and yet reach their target. Girls, if you read this, the world is tough- but please don't change! And all the best in every job you take in future-...

Neelam Mathews 19-Sep-2017 South Korea -based Lotte Duty Free, which has stores in six airports, is feeling the effects of the ongoing North Korean nuclear crisis and a row between  China  and  South Korea  over deployment of a  US -supplied missile defence system. China  has introduced restrictions on South Korean imports ......more in JAR

Jane's Airport Review Neelam Mathews 14-Sep-2017 Russian airport management holding company Airports of Regions (AR) has won a USD120 million tender to modernise Yelizovo Airport in the Kamchatka Peninsula. The project will be implemented as part of a public-private partnership (PPP). It includes construction of a 30,000 m2 terminal with annual capacity for 1 million passengers, and a 120-room hotel. The upgraded airport is scheduled to open in ....More in JAR 

Neelam Mathews Sept 13,2017 JAR The Indian environment ministry has approved a USD2.4 billion expansion plan for Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in Delhi, to be carried out by operator GMR Group. The project will be carried out in three phases: 2016–20, 2021–25, and 2026–34. GMR intends to invest USD1 billion over the next seven years at IGIA to double the capacity of the domestic Terminal 1, increase capacity in Terminal 3 for international traffic, lay down a new runway, and build a new terminal.

Jane's Airport Review Neelam Mathews 14-Sep-2017 Budget carrier AirAsia is poised to become the first Malaysian airline to obtain operational certification from DCA  Malaysia  for Required Navigation Performance Authorization Required Approach (RNP AR APCH) flight paths. The Malaysian programme includes GE Aviation-designed, ICAO Doc 9905-compliant RNP AR APCH paths, which allow the AirAsia A320 fleet to fly precisely defined paths without relying on ground-based radio navigation signals. Kuching and ....Read more in Jane's Airports 

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. Press Release Sept 12 2017 The acquisition of B&F Design Inc. will strengthen Cyient’s Aerospace and Defense service offerings, by adding Design, Build and Maintain capabilities centered around Tooling and Precision Engineering. This will help Cyient create a unique and differentiated value proposition for its aerospace clients. Cyient Limited (“Cyient”), a global provider of engineering, manufacturing, geospatial, network and operations management services to global industry leaders, through its step down subsidiary Cyient Defense Services Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity ownership in B&F Design Inc. Based in New Britain, Connecticut, USA, and founded by Raymond F. Forgione in 1965 as a family business, B&F Design initially offered design services to local manufacturing companies and later expanded the business to include the manufacturing of tools, and has built a reputation for its high-quality design and tooling capability. Tod...

Jane's Airport Review Neelam Mathews 11-Sep-2017 The Airports Authority of  India  (AAI) is looking at the viability of investing in digital towers. An expression of interest document will be..... Read more in Jane's Subscription 1 Could the new ATC tower at Delhi (pictured left, next to the old tower) be supplemented by a remote facility for contingency services? ( Neelam   Mathews )

Russia Pitches MiG-35 to India as FGFA Project Falters by  Neelam Mathews  - September 7, 2017, 7:56 AM As the contest to supply a new fighter aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) heats up, the MiG-35 has emerged as a viable candidate. India is supposedly seeking about 220 single-engine fighters to replace 11 squadrons of MiG-21/27s that entered service in the 1990s. Rosoboronexport is believed to have offered a licensed production deal for the twin-engine MiG-35 that would compensate for the IAF’s reluctance to proceed with the Indo-Russian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) project. At the MAKS 2017 airshow in July, Ilya Tarasenko, director general of Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, said: “We are actively working with the IAF in order to win the tender.” Russia has committed to a 40-year maintenance and upgrade contract to preclude the support issues that have arisen in the past with Russian aircraft in service wit...