Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews Dec 6, 2012 SpiceJet is adding two new destinations on its international network. The airline is connecting Delhi with Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province’s (People’s Republic of China) and Riyadh, capital city of Saudi Arabia. Direct daily flights will ply on Delhi – Riyadh and 4 weekly flights on Delhi – Guangzhou route. Delhi-Riyadh route will be operational by 4 th  January, 2013 while first flight from Delhi to Guangzhou will take off on 8 th  February 2013. SpiceJet is the only Indian carrier to connect Guangzhou with India. Booking of tickets for both the routes are open now With the addition of these two routes, SpiceJet will fly to seven international destinations from India. At present SpiceJet operates to Kathmandu (Nepal), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Kabul (Afghanistan), Dubai (UAE) and Male (Maldives). SpiceJet offers 11 routes on the existing International destinations from India.

Neelam Mathews Oct 10, 2012 Given the high taxes throttling India's MRO industry, it might do India some good to learn from Singapore's MRO report card. ST Aerospace today announced it has secured new contracts worth about S$590m in the third quarter of 2012.  This total contract value is in addition to the component repair management Maintenance-By-the-Hour (MBH) contract worth about US$80m (approximately S$102m) awarded by AirAsia in July this year.   The contracts are for airframe, component and engine maintenance and engineering design support, which will be carried out through its global network.     During the quarter, ST Aerospace redelivered its first VIP Boeing Business Jet, a contract secured for B level check and interior modifications.  Additionally, it completed airframe maintenance and modification work for 156 aircraft.  For passenger-to-freighter conversions, it redelivered three converted Boeing 757-200 freighters to FedEx Expres...