Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews April 2, 2015 Pegasus Asia, born out of Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines’ partnership with Kyrgyz airline Air Manas, is expanding with new routes and increased frequencies. The latest feather in the Bishkek-based airline now includes twice-weekly scheduled flights to Delhi. Kazakhsthan based Air Astana already runs five services a week to Delhi. The aim of Pegasus Asia is to make Bishkek a hub for Central Asia said a spokesperson, by making it a transit point for onward travel to Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the Far East. Having launched the first Bishkek-Istanbul flights on March 21, it runs daily flights between Bishkek Manas International Airport and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Passengers can now connect from Delhi to Istanbul via Bishkek with fares starting at just £156, said the spokesperson. The carrier’s connections to Central Asian destinations will provide a respite to Indian students and businessmen heading to Osh in Kyrgyzstan...

FBOs and Product Support Drive BBA’s Growth in Asia SINGAPORE AIR SHOW  »  2014 by    NEELAM MATHEWS February 11, 2014, 4:55 AM Looking at organic growth in 2014,  BBA  Aviation (Booth D63), a global provider for support and aftermarket services, is viewing opportunities for acquisitions this year, according to the  UK -based group’s Asia Pacific president David Best. He did not elaborate on possible targets but the group has acknowledged that it would like to add to its already-extensive chain of  FBO s, which includes a new base at Singapore’s Changi Airport. “We will carry on extending scope and scale from our Singapore base,” he told  AIN , adding   “We welcome [economic] recovery in Asia Pacific.” During 2013, the company’s Signature Flight Support  FBO network and its Ontic manufacturing and aftermarket support division both started operations in Singapore alongside its turbine engine repair...

Neelam Mathews Oct 2, 2011 There are some interesting figures in graphs at the bottom- thought aviation honchos might like to take a look. The lack of direct flights to Emerging Markets may already be costing the UK economy £1.2bn a year as trade goes to better-connected competitors.The value of this missed opportunity to the UK economy over the next 10 years could total £14bn. Paris and Frankfurt already boast 1000 more annual flights to the three largest cities in China than Heathrow. In its scoping document, Developing a sustainable framework for UK aviation , the Government tackles the issue whether it is even necessary for the UK to have a hub airport. Colin Matthews , Chief Executive, BAA answers that question with an emphatic ‘yes’ in a foreward to Frontier Economics report.  The report shows that it is hub airports (as opposed to point-to-point) that are critical to establishing flights to growth destinations; and that because the UK’s hub airport at Heathrow is ...