Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews Dec 4, 2012 Its great to hear so much discussion on traffic snarls and VIPs particularly as our few beautiful days of winter, once the Asean meet starts, will be sullied by noise polluting, loud sounding sirens and cars that move at a speed of summer lightening. Lets face it. Nobody cares as the people who will be affected will be just us- the aam admi, to use Kejriwal's favorite phrase. With elections around the corner, why doesn't the government pretend as it normally does, to show that it cares? Why not round up all our VIPs that live close to Safdarjung airport and use helicopters from there to fly to Palam straight onto to their VIP mode of air transport? Believe me, people will applaud you! This recommendation comes from one of our regular readers, Ashok Singh. Thank You Ashok! Can somebody bell the cat please!? Let us remind ourselves that helicopters, and if I may add, business aviation, are no longer an elitist mode of transport in ailing economi...

Travel/Distribution Systems Aviation Daily May 14 , 2010 , p. 04 Neelam Mathews TAM Technic, Brazilian TAM Airline’s maintenance, repair and overhaul business unit, is awaiting a decision by its board of shareholders in the second quarter on spinning off the company as an independent body. TAM is also looking at a partnership with a third-party provider and is in talks with about eight companies, including TAP Technic, Lufthansa Technik, Iberia and Singapore Technologies, Ruy Amparo, MRO VP told The DAILY in Sao Paulo. The company has been in talks with Airbus about linking to its maintenance network, “But they are slow to make a decision,” laments Amparo. The Airbus initiative is designed to ensure availability of competitive maintenance services and solutions to Airbus customers worldwide. “An intensive study has been done on the development of fleet, taxation …. We are ready to spin off if the decision is made,” says Amparo. On TAM joining Star Alliance, Amparo says, “W...