DRONES AND CIVIL AVIATION

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1 INTERVIEW: PROFIT HUNTER UNLEASHED P7 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2017 ` (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) VOLUME 10 ISSUE 4 ENGINE DOMINANCE IN COMMERCIAL AVIATION P 21 AIRBUZ A N E X C L U S I V E M A G A Z I N E O N C I V I L AV I AT I O N F R O M I N D I A PAGE 10 RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24198 SHOW REPORT: PARIS AIR SHOW 2017 P 28 DRONES AND CIVIL AVIATION AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION

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3 tabe of contents drones / reguations P10 drones and civi aviation The variety and number of UAVs in the non-miitary segment, the roes these are being empoyed in and their capabiity as we as performance eves, are mutipying rapidy. excusive interview / embraer commercia P7 Profit Hunter Uneashed Identifying Asia-Pacific as one of the most promising markets for the E-Jets, in a one-on-one with SP s AirBuz, Cesar Pereira outines his vision and pans for the region. P&W Customer Training Center in Hyderabad interview / pratt & whitney P18 Pratt & Whitney Transforming Aviation Paash Roy Chowdhury, Managing Director, Pratt & Whitney India, in conversation with Neetu Dhuia of SP s AirBuz. departments P2 A word from Editor P3 NEWS BRIEFS P32 FInay One-on-one interview / honeywe P26 The importance that we give to the India market is very, very high! Neeu Khatri, President Aerospace, Honeywe India, taks to Rohit Goe of SP s AirBuz about Honeywe s connected soutions for the Indian market. P12 drones / security airport security pug the gaps P14 regiona aviation / roe jets can decongest major hubs P21 engines / p&w engine Dominance in Commercia Aviation P24 technoogy / connectivity staying connected P28 show report / paris air show 2017 show Bis $150 Biion Deas Awards 2017 Specia Contribution to Business Aviation SP S AIRBUZ ISSUE

4 A WORD FROM EDITOR PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jayant Baranwa EDITOR Air Marsha B.K. Pandey (Retd) ASSISTANT GROUP EDITOR R. Chandrakanth (Bengauru) DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Neetu Dhuia CONTRIBUTORS Group Captain A.K. Sachdev (Retd) Group Captain Joseph Noronha (Retd) S.R. Swarup, Vasuki Prasad Shriniwas Mishra O CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR Jayant Baranwa PLANNING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Executive Vice President: Rohit Goe ADMIN & COORDINATION Bharti Sharma ASST - ADMIN, HR & INFRA Pooja Tehani CREATIVE DIRECTOR Anoop Kamath GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Vimesh Kumar Yadav, Sonu Singh Bisht Designer (3D animation): Kuna Verma Research Asst/Graphics: Survi Massey SALES & MARKETING Director Saes & Marketing: Neetu Dhuia Genera Manager Saes: Rajeev Chugh SP S WEBSITES Sr Web Deveoper: Shaiendra Prakash Ashish Web Deveoper: Ugrashen Vishwakarma SP Guide Pubications, 2017 SUBSCRIPTION/ CIRCULATION Annua Inand: `600 Foreign: US$180 E-mai: subscribe@spguidepubications.com subscribe@spsairbuz.com LETTER TO EDITOR editor@spsairbuz.com FOR ADVERTISING DETAILS CONTACT neetu@spguidepubications.com rajeev.chugh@spguidepubications.com SP GUIDE PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD A-133 Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Coony), New Dehi , India. Te: +91 (11) , , Fax: +91 (11) E-mai: info@spguidepubications.com BENGALURU, INDIA 204, Ja Vayu Vihar, Kayan Nagar Bengauru , India. Te: +91 (80) Owned, pubished and printed by Jayant Baranwa, printed at Kaa Jyothi Process Pvt Ltd and Pubished at A-133, Arjun Nagar (Opposite Defence Coony), New Dehi , India. NE OF THE PROBLEMS that afficts the Indian airine industry and which is ikey get worse with the passage of time is the congestion at the six major airports that serve as hubs. In this issue of SP s AirBuz, R. Chandrakanth anayses the probem and expains how regiona jet airiners can be used mitigate this probem. The other probem pertains to the growing menace of unreguated operations by Drones and its impications for air safety. This issue carries a piece by the undersigned on the subject of proper integration of Drones with manned air traffic in civi airspace. In his artice in this issue of SP s AirBuz on Airport Security, Lt Genera P.C. Katoch (Retd) deves on the inadequate security arrangements at civi airports in India and how expoitation of this weakness by anti-nationa eements coud have serious impications for nationa security. A major event on the goba aviation scene in the recent past was the 52nd Air Show at Paris hed from June 19 to 25 at the Le Bourget airport. The two eading aerospace majors in the goba civi aviation industry dispayed their atest products and notched up arge orders. Boeing aunched the 737 MAX 10, the newest member of the 737 MAX famiy, with more than 361 orders and Airbus announced $39.7 biion worth of new business incuding firm orders for 144 airiners. Embraer, the aerospace major from Brazi dispayed the E195-E2, the Profit Hunter which is the newest member of the company s famiy of regiona jets. A detaied report on the civi aviation component of the Paris Air Show by R. Chandrakanth figures in this issue of SP s AirBuz. Given the recent poicy changes, Pratt & Whitney sees tremendous opportunities the Regiona Connectivity Scheme wi generate for the civi aviation industry. In an interview conducted by Neetu Dhuia of SP s AirBuz, Paash Roy Chowdhury, Managing Director, Pratt & Whitney India, made it cear that the company sees India as an important strategic market and supports the Make in India campaign of the Modi-ed government that transates its vision of making India a goba manufacturing hub. A report on the interaction is a part of this issue of SP s AirBuz. Embraer too is highy optimistic about the market prospects in the Asia-Pacific region. The company estimates that the AsiaPacific region, incuding China, wi see receive 1,710 new airiners by 2036 and in the next two decades, the tota in-service feet wi reach 1,790 aircraft. In a one-on-one with SP s AirBuz, Cesar Pereira, the newy appointed Vice President, Commercia Aviation AsiaPacific,tof Embraer, outines his vision and pans for the region. Honeywe Internationa broke new ground in India when for the first time, it showcased a Boeing 757 remodeed as a Connected Aircraft. The high speed connectivity that this technoogy offers, adds a new dimension in the efficiency and productivity of patforms empoyed in the civi aviation industry across the board and has the potentia to be a game changer. The company sees a huge market for this innovative technoogy not ony in India, but in the goba market as we. Neeu Khatri, President Aerospace, Honeywe India, eaborates on this concept in a discussion with Rohit Goe of SP s AirBuz. A this and more in this issue of SP s AirBuz. Wecome aboard and wish you happy andings! A rights reserved. MEMBER OF: APPLIED FOR 2 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G B.K. Pandey Editor

5 quenty, what eevated the business jet from a uxury toy to what is increasingy seen as a vita corporate too? In the US, hundreds of Fortune 500 companies now faunt their own aircraft, with companies arguing that this vita conveyance saves time and boosts productivity. A recent CNN report quoted NEWSBRIEFS ( AIRLINE NEWS INTERLINE AGREEMENT BETWEEN QATAR AIRWAYS AND VISTARA In August this year, fag carrier Qatar Airways entered into a new interine partnership with the Tata-Singapore Airines Vistara. The agreement aows passengers of each airine to trave seamessy under a singe ticket on the other s network via Indian gateways to destinations to which both airines operate. The baggage aowances of the passengers wi be as per the issuing airine s rues. Qatar Airways operates services from Doha to New Dehi, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengauru, Mumbai, Khozikode, Kokata, Goa, Hyderabad, Chennai, Nagpur and Thiruvanabthapuram. Vistara does not currenty operate to Khozikode, Kokata, Goa, Hyderabad, Chennai, Nagpur and Thiruvananthapuram. Vistara has interine or through check-in agreements with Air France, KLM, Japan Airines, A Nippon Airways (ANA), British Airways, Finnair, Aerofot, Ethiopian Airines, Austrian Airines, Kenya Airways, Emirates, and Ethiopian Airines. It aso has codeshare partnerships with its parent Singapore Airines and Singapore s regiona subsidiary SikAir. AIR INDIA TO PURCHASE SIX DREAMLINERS The government is panning on seing stake in Air India, but the airine is going ahead with its feet expansion pans and is seeking financing worth $740 miion for the purchase of six Boeing 787 Dreaminers. The airine has invited offers from banks and financia institutions to arrange bridge financing for the amount. Earier in March this year, Air India had sought $470 miion from banks and financia institutions to purchase four Dreaminers. Of the six now on order, three aircraft have aready been deivered, whie the rest woud be deivered by October The government has now indicated that they woud issue guarantee for a the six aircraft and Air India is ooking at refinancing the bridge oan for the three deivered panes and interim bridge financing for the rest for a period of 15 months. In addition to the government guarantee, Air India wi offer the aircraft as security. The faciity shoud be a direct oan without the requirement for formation of a specia purpose vehice structure, which requires tite transfer, the tender document said. As part of feet expansion pan, in 2006, Air India had paced orders with Boeing for 68 aircraft. The ist incuded 27 Dreaminers, 15 Boeing ER, eight Boeing LR and 18 Boeing DELTA, AIR FRANCE-KLM, VIRGIN ATLANTIC JOINT VENTURE Deta wi invest 375 miion to acquire ten per cent equity in the Air France-KLM Group. In addition, Deta wi be on the atter s Board of Directors. Air France-KLM wi invest 31 per cent in Virgin Atantic in which Deta aready has a 49 per cent stake. Since 2009, Deta has a joint venture with Air France-KLM. Aitaia was added in In 2012, Deta and Virgin Austraia aunched a joint venture. Virgin Atantic was added in 2013 and Deta aso took 49 per cent stake in the Richard Branson promoted British carrier. The Atanta-based carrier has been steadiy expanding its goba footprint via a series of joint ventures, marketing agreements and investments. Expanding beyond Europe, in 2015, Deta took a 3.5 per cent stake in China Eastern Airine and entered into an enhanced marketing arrangement with the atter who is aso a member of the SkyTeam aiance. A simiar cooperation agreement and a 49 per cent stake in AeroMexico was done in The same year Deta aso announced a joint venture with Korean Air Lines, another SkyTeam member. Deta aso hods a 9.5 per cent equity stake in Braziian carrier GOL. JET AIRWAYS-ETIHAD STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Etihad Airways has said it is committed to a strategic partnership with Jet Airways that continues to be strong and heathy. The Guf carrier s assertion comes amid reports that Jet Airways is in exporatory taks to se stake to Deta Air Lines. With 24 per cent stake, Etihad is a strategic partner of Jet Airways. An Etihad spokesperson said both airines continue to enjoy a strong and heathy reationship. We remain committed to our strategic partnership which has grown to become the argest carriers of internationa traffic to and from India with one in five passengers fying with Etihad Airways and Jet Airways. Together, we operate 257 services each week, each way between Abu Dhabi and 15 cities across India, the spokesperson said. Stressing that specuation of anything to the contrary is competey misguided and misinformed. The spokesperson said the dynamic partnership with Jet Airways has resuted in increased benefits for traveers. The response was to queries on whether Etihad is ooking to se its stake in Jet Airways. A eading fu-service carrier, Jet Airways fies to 65 destinations, incuding in the Midde East, Europe and North America. Jet Airways, with a feet of 113 aircraft, has code share pacts with various internationa airines, incuding Deta Air Lines, KLM Roya Dutch Airines and Air France. JET AIRWAYS ASKS JUNIOR PILOTS TO FURNISH ` ONE CRORE BONDS Jet Airways has asked junior piots to furnish surety bonds worth up to ` one crore and serve the airine for at east five to seven years. The deveopment comes at a time when many of its junior piots have been asked to take ten days off every month, a move that woud resut in up to 30 per cent pay cut, as part of cost saving measures. Sources at the Nationa Aviators Guid (NAG), the piots union of Jet Airways, said the bond requirement has been communicated to the junior piots. Jet Airways has more than 200 junior piots incuding those undergoing training. The NAG woud be taking up the matter with the management soon, sources added. On Juy 20, 2017, Jet Airways said that certain deveopments in the market, incuding that in the Guf region, as we as its continued efforts to enhance interna efficiencies, have resuted in the review of network as aso feet and crew utiisation. Consequenty, as a proactive measure, the company has made interim SP S AIRBUZ Issue

6 quenty, what eevated the business jet from a uxury toy to what is increasingy seen as a vita corporate too? In the US, hundreds of Fortune 500 companies now faunt their own aircraft, with companies arguing that this vita conveyance saves time and boosts productivity. A recent CNN report quoted NEWSBRIEFS EVENTS CALENDAR THE ELITE - NEW YORK 8 9 September Essex County Airport, New Jersey, USA AVIATION EXPO CHINA September China Nationa Convention Centre, Beijing, China NBAA-BACE October Las Vegas Convention Centre, Henderson Executive Airport, Las Vegas, NV, USA MRO EUROPE 3 5 October ExCeL London, London, UK Dubai (ICD) but are managed and operated independenty. The airines wi aso further deveop their hub at Dubai internationa airport. HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed A Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Group and Chairman of Fydubai said This is an exciting and significant deveopment for Emirates, Fydubai and Dubai aviation. Both airines have grown independenty and successfuy over the years and this new partnership wi unock the immense vaue that the compementary modes of both companies can bring to consumers, to each other and to Dubai. AIR INDIA - PROFIT BEFORE DIVESTMENT ( AIRLINE FINANCE ( INDUSTRY NEWS FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE SPICEJET FY PRATT AND WHITNEY ENGINES FOR INDIGO AND GOAIR SpiceJet s resuts for the first quarter of fisca year were a mixed bag with some areas of concern. SpiceJet s revenues grew by 23 per cent against a capacity increase of 18 per cent compared to the same quarter ast fisca year. This was driven by a combination of rising fares and oad factors. SpiceJet continued to be very aggressive in saes during the quarter refected in the high oad factors recorded. SpiceJet is no different and increased the average fare per passenger by nine per cent to `3,943. India s argest domestic carrier, IndiGo, averaged `4,626 per passenger. Load factors were a heathy 93.4 per cent. Tota costs as compared to the same period ast year grew by 23 per cent, outstripping capacity growth of 18 per cent. This naturay refects on profitabiity. SpiceJet was consistenty ranked second in on-time performance, a key infuencer for the Indian passenger. Interestingy no mention was made of this in the resuts. Aircraft utiisation was fairy ow at approximatey nine hours per aircraft averaged between the Bombardier Q400 and Boeing 737 feets. We estimate the utiisation of the Boeing 737 wi be higher at around 10 to 11 hours. Expect the airine to increase utiisation to drive revenues. Pratt and Whitney has assured the Indian Directorate Genera of Civi Aviation (DGCA) that the company wi provide new engines as repacements by the end of September this year, for ten grounded A-320neo aircraft of IndiGo and GoAir. This was conveyed by Pratt and Whitney when they were caed in by the DGCA recenty. The DGCA asked the Pratt and Whitney officias to treat India as a priority market from where they are getting good business. The DGCA coud understand if one or two aircraft are grounded; but here the number is around ten and it is a serious issue. IndiGo, at present, has eight and GoAir two A-320neos grounded. The DGCA had in Apri 2017, ordered a detaied inspection of the Airbus A-320neo panes of IndiGo and GoAir that are equipped with Pratt & Whitney engines. The direction came after the DGCA took serious note of incidents where some IndiGo and GoAir aircraft had to make emergency andings due to probems with the engine. In Juy this year, whie taking about Quarter-1 resuts, Aditya Ghosh President IndiGo had acknowedged the probem with the engines. Rescheduing of services due to the grounding of panes appeared to have had an effect on IndiGo s As per Rajiv Bansa who took over as Chairman and Managing Director Air India in August this year, higher revenue, heathy profit, on-time fights and better connect with the fiers are among the top goas for the state-owned airine before it goes for privatisation. I have a very basic target which is to run the airine profitaby, Rajiv Bansa tod the media in an interview. The airine can be run efficienty ony with the hep of my coeagues, he said. Air India made a oss of Rs 3,643 crore on a revenue of Rs 20,613 crore in the financia year DUBAI AIRSHOW November DWC, Dubai Airshow Site, Dubai aignments to its crew work patterns, which wi be reviewed in future, in ine with network growth. PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT BETWEEN EMIRATES AND FLYDUBAI Emirates and Fydubai have entered into a partnership which wi see the two Dubaibased airines partner in code sharing and coaboration in their network with coordinated scheduing. The agreement wi aow Emirates to make use of Fydubai s regiona network and aow the airine to make use of the expansive goba network of Emirates to aow more destinations to passengers of both airines. The goa of this partnership is to optimise the networks of both airines to open more city pairings and to feed passengers from the networks of the airines to each-other. Both Emirates and Fydubai are owned by Investment Corporation of 4 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G

7 quenty, what eevated the business jet from a uxury toy to what is increasingy seen as a vita corporate too? In the US, hundreds of Fortune 500 companies now faunt their own aircraft, with companies arguing that this vita conveyance saves time and boosts productivity. A recent CNN report quoted NEWSBRIEFS APPOINTMENT AIR BP On Juy 17, 2017, eading internationa aviation fue products and services suppier, Air BP, announced the appointment of Matt Eiott as Chief Commercia Officer. AIRBUS Airbus has appointed Luo Gang as CEO of Airbus New Innovation Centre to be set up in China at a ocation to be announced at a ater date. BOEING The Board of Directors, Boeing, has eected Caroine B Kennedy as a new member. On June 28, 2017, Boeing announced an expansion of the enterprise responsibiities of Greg Smith, currenty the company s Chief Financia Officer and Executive market share with figures showing a fa in Juy 2017, the owest for any month this year for the airine. Vice President of Corporate Deveopment & Strategy. CLUB ONE AIR BOEING FORECAST FOR NEW AIRPLANES IN INDIA Rajan Mehra has been promoted as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cub One Air with effect from August 17, EMBRAER On August 14, 2017, Embraer announced the appointment of Stephen Friedrich as Chief Commercia Officer for the Company s Executive Aviation Business Unit, effective immediatey. SR TECHNICS SR Technics, a word eading MRO service provider, announced the appointments of Jianfeng (Jeff) Hu as Deputy CEO and Yujie (Jessy) Zheng as Deputy CFO. ENHANCED A-380 SUPER JUMBO LARGER SHARE OF FOREIGN TRAFFIC FOR DOMESTIC CARRIERS Unike many countries, internationa air traffic to and from India continues to be dominated by foreign airines, primariy from West Asia. But Indian carriers have been increasing their share of the pie steadiy. From about 30 per cent in FY14, the share of domestic airines in India s internationa traffic rose to 34 per cent in FY16 and further to 35 per cent in FY17, says a report by rating agency ICRA. This is a resut of Indian carriers outperforming their internationa counterparts in traffic growth. For instance, in FY17, whie overa traffic growth to and from India was 8.4 per cent, the domestic carriers grew their internationa traffic at a faster 11.8 per cent. Whie this is much sower than the about 22 per cent growth in domestic air traffic in FY17, the foreign traffic opportunity is aso getting much attention from Indian carriers. More fights by estabished payers such as Air India and Jet Airways and reativey new entrants IndiGo Airines and SpiceJet, have aided the trend of growing market share on foreign routes. Jet Airways and Air India have, over the years, buit up significant share on the internationa routes ( per cent), whie IndiGo and SpiceJet are graduay buiding up their presence (about 3 per cent share each). six-year check downtime and systems improvements which the company says wi reduce maintenance costs and increase aircraft avaiabiity. Pans for an enhanced A-380 Super Jumbo, the A-380pus, with new arge wingets to provide up to four per cent fue burn savings and a 13 per cent cost reduction per seat versus the current A-380 have been unveied by Airbus. A deveopment study reeased by the company aso envisages an optimised A-380 maintenance programme and enhanced cabin features. The new wingets are about 4.7m high, with an up et of 3.5m and a down et of 1.2m, and are designed to improve aerodynamics and reduce drag. The cabin ayout is based on the cabin enabers and aows up to 80 more seats. There are aso redesigned stairs, a combined crew-rest compartment, sidewa stowage remova, and a new nine-abreast seat configuration in Premium Economy and 11-abreast in Economy. Airbus says the A-380pus wi have an increased maximum takeoff weight of 578 tonnes to provide the fexibiity to carry the extra passengers over today s range of 8,200nm or to fy 300nm further. The aircraft aso features onger maintenance check intervas, a reduced Boeing forecasts a demand for 2,100 new airpanes in India over the next 20 years, vaued at $290 biion. The company reeased the report as part of its annua Current Market Outook briefings for India. Commercia aerospace demand in India continues to grow at unprecedented rates, said Dinesh Keskar, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific and India Saes, Boeing Commercia Airpanes. The increasing number of passengers combined with a strong exchange rate, ow fue prices and high oad factors bode we for India s aviation market, especiay for the ow-cost carriers. Singeaise airpanes, ike the Boeing 737MAX famiy, wi continue to account for the argest share of new deiveries, with airines in India needing approximatey 1,780 airpanes. The Boeing 737MAX is the fastest-seing airpane in Boeing history because customers throughout the word, incuding India, want its combination of performance, fexibiity and efficiency, said Keskar. Boeing aso continues to offer the most compete famiy of wide-body airpanes, as evidenced by our more than 85 per cent in-service market share in India. Boeing projects a wordwide demand for 41,030 new airpanes over the next 20 years, with Indian carriers needing more than 5.1 percent of the tota goba demand. Boeing s Current Market Outook is the ongest running jet forecast and is regarded as the most comprehensive anaysis of the aviation industry. ( REGIONAL AVIATION UDAN: NORMS RELAXED FOR SECOND ROUND OF BIDDING In the ast week of August this year, the government unveied revised norms under SP S AIRBUZ Issue

8 quenty, what eevated the business jet from a uxury toy to what is increasingy seen as a vita corporate too? In the US, hundreds of Fortune 500 companies now faunt their own aircraft, with companies arguing that this vita conveyance saves time and boosts productivity. A recent CNN report quoted NEWSBRIEFS the Regiona Connectivity Scheme (RCS) to attract more airines to operate services in J&K, North-Eastern states, Andaman and Nicobar Isands and Lakshadweep. The Ministry of Civi Aviation (MoCA) has aso incuded Himacha Pradesh and Uttarakhand as priority areas. The aim is to increase the services to these states, whose aviation potentia at present have not been fuy utiised. The MoCA has reaxed the norms of RCS for these states and union territories. Civi Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said the scheme is being iberaised and the focus woud be on priority areas. The new norms aso aow routes with a stage ength ess than 150km for operations through fixed-wing aircraft. This, the MoCA beieves, woud enhance connectivity and ease the formation of networks under the scheme. To encourage heicopter services under UDAN scheme, the viabiity gap funding (VGF) has been increased and ten per cent of the estimated annua infow in the Regiona Connectivity Fund has been earmarked for operations through choppers. The second round of bidding RCS has been hed and the Ministry expects to announce the names of winners on November 30 this year. ( INFRASTRUCTURE PLANS FOR EXPANSION OF NEW DELHI AIRPORT Inspired by a massive increase in passenger traffic at Termina 1 (T1), the GMR Group-ed Dehi Internationa Airport Limited (DIAL) consortium, has unveied an ambitious pan to expand Indira Gandhi Internationa Airport, New Dehi in three phases in the period 2018 to Dehi airport handed 57.7 miion passengers in the financia year against a maximum handing capacity of 70 miion. The passenger traffic for FY2017 has aready crossed the capacity of the existing termina of 20 miion. The departure termina, T1-D and arriva termina, T1-C wi be merged in to one futuristic termina and wi be expanded to accommodate 40 miion passengers. The origina internationa termina T2, mothbaed after T3 was commissioned, has been renovated and can hande up to 14 miion passengers. DIAL has asked the airines to partiay shift operations from T1 to T2 on an interim basis, from October T1 wi be upgraded in parae with reduced on-going opera6 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G tions over three years. Once airines move back to the new T1, the existing T2 wi be converted into T4 and integrated with T3. Operations wi be streamined for the passenger and the airine. One of the more significant upgrades wi be away from the pubic eye. At present, fights to/from T1 need to use a circuitous route to runway forcing ATC to overoad the centra runway The new runway to be buit in 2021, when commissioned, wi hopefuy overcome the forced dispaced threshod on the existing runway 29-11, which imits its usabe ength. AAI OWNS 55,800 ACRES OF LAND Minister of State, Ministry of Civi Aviation Jayant Sinha, informed Lok Sabha that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) owns around 55,800 acres of and across the country out of which 798 acres has been encroached. The use of and under AAI is restricted to discharge its functions reated to airports; but the Nationa Aviation Poicy 2016 envisages to unock the potentia of and by iberaising the end-use restrictions for existing and future airports, he said. The majority of the and area under encroachment is around Mumbai and Juhu airports, which are inhabited by sum dweers. The and under encroachment here is acres. Other major encroachments are acres in Bhopa and acres in Hyderabad. The Mumbai Internationa Airport Ltd has entered into an agreement with the Government of Maharashtra in order to remove the encroachment from airport and in coordination with AAI. In the case of Bhopa airport, Madhya Pradesh government has agreed to exchange 96 acres of and with AA and provide an aternate site for the remaining and area. The process of rehabiitation of iega occupants is a subject matter of concerned state governments and the roe of AAI and other private operators is imited to assistance and persuasion. Nonetheess, AAI has undertaken a efforts in an active manner to coordinate with the concerned state governments to remove such encroachments, Sinha said. ( ROTARY WING INDIA S FIRST HELI-TAXI SERVICE AT KIA You coud soon take a heicopter taxi from Kempegowda Internationa Airport (KIA) and reach Eectronics City in 15 minutes. Launched by Minister of State for Civi Aviation Jayant Sinha on August 4 this year, the service is a set to takeoff in three months. KIA is the first airport and Bengauru is the first city in the country with such a service. Operated by Thumby Aviation Private Ltd, the Hei-Taxi service wi initiay fy two heicopters, a Be 412 with two piots carrying 13 passengers and a Be 407 with two piots and five passengers. The feet wi be expanded based on demand. Equating the HeiTaxis to the UDAAN project for regiona connectivity, Sinha said the service wi ensure quick, seamess transfers to and from the airport at a cost simiar to a uxury taxi. Athough the fares have not been fixed, the KIA-Eectronics City service coud be in the range of `3,000 to `4,000, according to Group Captain K.N.G. Nair, Chairman and Managing Director, Thumby Aviation. The infrastructure at Eectronics City is ready to and the heicopters. About 60,000 passengers pass through KIA every day. Even if 100 of them take the Hei-Taxis, the service wi become viabe. The operator, based on an extensive pre-aunch study, has initiay targeted about 60 to 70 passengers daiy. CRASH OF HELICOPTER CARRYING CHIEF MINISTER FADNAVIS The initia probe conducted by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the crash-anding in May this year of the heicopter carrying the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has prima facie found apses on the part of the piot which coud have ed to the accident. The AAIB which comes under the Ministry of Civi Aviation, has wrapped up its initia probe into the heicopter accident and submitted its report. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had a narrow escape when soon after takeoff, the heicopter got entanged in the wires overhead and crash-anded in Latur district in Maharashtra after the piot tried to descend due to bad weather. The piot faied to assess the oad on the heicopter on a day of high temperature. Since high temperature makes it harder for a heicopter to get off the ground, he shoud not have taken off with amost fu oad, the officia added. Besides, the Standard Operating Procedure aid down for heicopter operations, was aso not foowed propery, a source in the AAIB said. SP

9 INTERVIEW EMBRAER COMMERCIAL EXCLUSIVE Cesar Pereira is the newy appointed Vice President of Commercia Aviation for Asia-Pacific. Cesar has been working at Embraer for 14 years and prior to his current roe, he was the Head of Consuting at Embraer Commercia Aviation, where he worked hand in hand with airines to shape their panning and strategies. PROFIT HUNTER UNLEASHED Embraer estimates that the Asia-Pacific region, incuding China, wi see 1,710 new deiveries by 2036, and the tota in-service feet reach 1,790 aircraft over the same 20year period. Identifying Asia-Pacific as one of the most promising markets for the E-Jets, in a one-on-one with SP s AirBuz, Cesar Pereira outines his vision and pans for the region. PHOTOGRAPHS: Embraer SP s AirBuz (SP s): How do you fee taking over the responsibiity of Asia-Pacific region? Cesar Pereira (Pereira): Asia-Pacific is a fascinating region. I fee extremey excited about the opportunity to earn about the region and its specificities, but aso happy to bring new insights from my previous experience of working with severa airines a over the word, from different business modes. SP s: What are your pans towards this region? Pereira: I see untapped opportunities in Asia-Pacific that our seat jets can unock. The rapid growth of air traffic in the region over ast decade is very concentrated on primary markets, which are over-competitive and airines are finding it hard to make profits with their arge-capacity aircraft. There are about 158 markets where there are typicay four competing airines with more than 10 daiy fights, yet we have identified over 800 markets that have ess than 1-5 daiy fights. These routes coud benefit from better frequency eves by using seat jets. We are advocating to airines the benefit of moving from red oceans to bue oceans. In India, for instance, there is a big gap between 70-seaters turboprops and 180-seaters narrowbodies. The first mover in the seats segment wi have a great advantage by tapping this gap. We see a great potentia in India given the opportunities for further regiona connectivity and remain activey engaged in this very promising growth market. In the seat market segment, we estimate an industry demand of up to 350 units over 20 years, depending on how the market evoves, which woud enabe India to enhance its regiona connectivity. These jets woud be used to grow secondary and tertiary markets and with the option of bypassing the major metro airports to avoid air traffic congestion. SP S AIRBUZ Issue

10 INTERVIEW EMBRAER COMMERCIAL But enhancing connectivity whie improving profitabiity is the key. Not by chance we ca the E195-E2 the Profit Hunter. In addition of having a simiar CASK as A320neo and B737 MAX 8, the E195-E2 has 20 per cent ower trip cost. But even more important, it does not erode the yieds (unit revenue) as the arger narrowbodies. We cannot forget that airine business foows stricty the suppy and demand rue. This means when airines add more capacity (seats) to the market, the competition increases and the price drops. The outcome is not good for the airines as they may end up osing money. Last but not east, bigger airpanes are more expensive to buy and to operate. It is proven that the E-Jets provide a higher Return on Aircraft Asset (ROaA), which is what most investors are ooking for. The reason is rather simpe: E-Jets provide higher profit per seat for ower invested capita. In other words, you can get higher return for each invested seat. for the E-Jets. Intra-regiona RPKs grew at 8.2 per cent CAGR over the past 10 years a trend that is set to continue, underpinned not ony by increasing affordabiity and broadening air networks, but mainy by a combination of a massive capacity infow in the system and the need to stimuate traffic and popuate the ever-expanding feets. The Indian market has been topping the month-on-month growth in the ast two years, with an RPK growth rate exceeding 20 per cent. The airine industry in the member states of the South Asian Association for Regiona Cooperation (SAARC), ed by India, is projected to grow by 9.0 per cent CAGR by 2036 the fastest growing region in terms of RPKs foowed by China with a projected RPK growth rate of 6.4 per cent annuay over the next 20 years. This growth wi pace the two countries, aong with Japan and Indonesia, among the ten argest passenger markets in the word by Whie it is cear that Asian airines wi experience strong SP s: Which markets are the matured markets in Asia-Pacific region? Pereira: Austraia and Japan represent the most mature markets in the Asia Pacific region. Generay, a mature market wi demonstrate a capacity discipine where capacity is primariy added by increasing fight frequency. It aso shows an emphasis on convenience, incuding sophisticated secondary and tertiary city networks, operating independenty from major Tier-I hubs. In a mature market, there is a co-existence of regiona, ow cost and fu service carriers, each serving and benefiting a segment of the popuation. SP s: Which markets are the deveoping markets in this region? Pereira: The majority of markets in the Asia-Pacific region can be cassified as deveoping markets. The first thought of course goes to China, whose growth in a segments has been we documented and reported upon. Embraer hods the market-eading position in terms of 70 to 130 seat aircraft operating in China. However it is equay important to highight that the Indian aviation market has seen some of the highest year-on-year RPK growth rates in the word. Bearing that in mind, and ooking to the broader SAARC region, we anticipate that through 2036, RPKs wi grow at a compound annua growth rate of 9 per cent. Additionay, with a arge domestic popuation of its own, the Indonesian aviation market wi continue to rapidy deveop, which wi have a further effect on driving greater demand for point to point connectivity through the broader ASEAN region. SP s: Which markets are the most promising markets for Embraer Commercia in next 5, 10, 15 years? Pereira: Asia-Pacific for sure is one of the most promising markets ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY WHILE IMPROVING PROFITABILITY IS THE KEY. NOT BY CHANCE WE CALL THE E195-E2 THE PROFIT HUNTER. IN ADDITION OF HAVING A SIMILAR CASK AS A320NEO AND B737 MAX 8, THE E195-E2 HAS 20 PER CENT LOWER TRIP COST. 8 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G RPK growth of 5.7 per cent annuay by 2036, doubts remain if the airine industry can generate heathy and sustainabe financia performance due to over-capacity and intense competition. SP s: Technoogicay how woud you compare Embraer E2 with A320neo and B737 MAX? Can you aso indicate on specific advantages and disadvantages versus the two programmes? Pereira: The E2 is a new design in a proven patform. In the design of the E-Jets E2, Embraer has aways taken the opportunity to make major structura, aerodynamic, and systems improvements a drawn from the vast operating experience of the current generation E-Jets programme. The most notabe of these incude, but not imited to: An a new wing, with a bespoke design for each member of the E2 famiy; 4th generation fu fy by wire system, offering improved fying quaities and fue efficiency;

11 INTERVIEW EMBRAER COMMERCIAL An a new interior, designed in partnership with PriestmanGoode, that takes Embraer s market eading passenger experience to a new eve The E-Jets E2 is powered by Pratt & Whitney s next generation Geared Turbofan engine which wi have time to mature further when our aircraft enter into service from 2018 onwards. The combination of these attributes enabes the E-Jets E2 to be the most efficient singe aise aircraft famiy. It is important to note however, that the E-Jets E2 famiy spans the capacity range from roughy seats, whereas the arger A320neo and B737 MAX aircraft cover the mid-160s to high-180s range. Thus our products do not compete directy with the arger narrowbodies, but instead offer a compementary option to an airine s feet, by unocking the fexibiity to grow into new unserved markets. Take for instance the E195-E2: it can offer a capacity up to OUR PRODUCTS DO NOT COMPETE DIRECTLY WITH THE LARGER NARROWBODIES, BUT INSTEAD OFFER A COMPLEMENTARY OPTION TO AN AIRLINE S FLEET, BY UNLOCKING THE FLEXIBILITY TO GROW INTO NEW UNSERVED MARKETS. an approximate 50 per cent share of deiveries, we are optimistic that the E-Jets E2 wi refect a simiar appea. SP s: Usuay the perception is that turboprops operations remain economica. How do you counter this? Pereira: Inevitaby, there wi be a niche that turboprops offer the ony viabe soution for operations. This can incude very short sectors, or those routes serving very short (ess than 1,200 metres) or unpaved runways. However, once sector engths begin to increase, the sower speed of the turboprop, makes it increasingy uncompetitive against the jet. In fact, we routiney see this cross-over point between turboprop and jet to ie around the nm threshod. With the ow fue price environment set to continue for the foreseeabe future, the strength of the E-Jets or E-Jets E2 patform on sectors in excess of 200nm versus the turboprop wi ony grow and this is even before we consider other E-Jets attributes, such as consideraby higher cargo capacity, and superior passenger comfort and experience. Outperforming Rivas: Profit Hunter at the Paris Air show seats, it can approach the seat cost economics of the arger A320neo, but deiver roughy 20 per cent ower cost per trip. SP s: What is the current and future contribution of AsiaPacific region in terms of saes of your jets as per your own market outook for next few years? Pereira: As of the end of 1Q2017, the Asia Pacific region, incuding China, saw 150 E-Jets aircraft in service with 13 operators. This feet size wi continue to increase if we consider our backog and the recenty announced orders at the Paris Air Show from Japan Airines and Fuji Dream Airines. Looking to the future, Embraer s 2017 market outook estimates that the Asia Pacific region, incuding China, wi see 1,710 new deiveries by 2036, and the tota in-service feet reach 1,790 aircraft over the same 20-year period. Considering that, within its segment since the 2004 entry into service of the current generation E-Jets, Embraer has maintained SP s: In India, the hubs such as Dehi, Kokata, Mumbai, etc remain quite congested causing chaos, wastage of aviation fue, etc. What kind of soution do you think you can propose? Pereira: One of Embraer s strategies in India very much invoves the concept of hub bypass, or essentiay serving 2nd and 3rd tier cities by way of direct connectivity, thus aeviating the need to connect through one of the six major metros. This bring me back to the comment I raised earier about the compementary roe of the seat segment with the arger narrow bodies. Given sot constraints and congestion, we recognise that airines wi generay prefer to depoy arger gauge aircraft between the major metros ike Mumbai and Dehi but this is where the smaer E-Jets and E-Jets E2 aircraft can offer a compementary soution to connect those cities that coud not otherwise be economicay served by the arger gauge aircraft. These smaer right-sized aircraft offer a new strategic mindset to the airine, as it drives a shift from competing to creating new market space, and seeking out untapped opportunities. SP s: What kind of easing assistance Embraer provides to its potentia customers? Which a types of eases can you eaborate a itte? Pereira: Both the E-Jets and E-Jets E2 programs have enjoyed considerabe interest and support from the easing and finance community. This has incuded some very significant direct orders on both the current generation and E2 patforms. At present, there are roughy 30 easing companies active on the program, representing in excess of 30 per cent of the feet. SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

12 DRONES REGULATIONS DRONES AND CIVIL AVIATION The variety and number of UAVs in the non-miitary segment, the roes these are being empoyed in and their capabiity as we as performance eves, are mutipying rapidy BY B.K. PANDEY ILLUSTRATION: Anoop Kamath O N SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017, fight operations at Indira Gandhi Internationa Airport at Dehi, one of the busiest in the country operating around 70 fights in an hour i.e. more than one fight every minute on an average, had to be suspended temporariy when ate in the evening, a Drone was spotted on one of the three runways by a piot of an AirAsia India aircraft that was coming in to and. On further investigation it was discovered that the Drone spotted by the piot was being operated by civiian photographers without any authority or cearance, to cover a private function in the vicinity of the airport. Fight by the Drone was ceary unauthorised and it goes without saying that such unreguated operations by Drones, more appropriatey known as Unmanned Aeria Vehices 10 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G (UAVs), in the vicinity of airports or in controed civi air space, are indeed becoming is a serious hazard to safety of manned aircraft operating in a reguated environment not ony in India, but in a other parts of the word as we. UAV MILITARY AND CIVIL. UAVs have been empoyed for years by the armed forces of severa nations across the gobe incuding India, in a variety of roes. The ist of countries using miitary UAVs, as we as the roes in which these are empoyed, continue to expand and cover hitherto unexpored areas even incuding aeria combat. Today, the United States Air Force (USAF) trains more UAV operators aso caed Remote Piots than piots for manned aircraft every year. In fact, Robert Gates, the former Secretary of Defence when he was in office, had stated

13 DRONES REGULATIONS that the F-35, the atest fifth-generation aircraft from Lockheed Martin, is ikey to be the ast manned fighter the USAF wi buy. Even if the prognosis does not come true, there is itte doubt that miitary UAVs wi continue to proiferate a over the word. In the next two decades, the strength of miitary UAVs in Israe is predicted to exceed the strength of manned aircraft. Whie the rate of growth of unmanned patforms in India, may not be as high as in the Western nations, the fact is that even with the rate at which this segment is growing at present or is ikey to grow in the foreseeabe future, wi add a new dimension to the probem of air traffic management in civi aviation across the nation. In India, operations by miitary UAVs are generay undertaken in airspace controed by the miitary. In the civi aviation domain, UAVs are operated by agencies both within and outside the government. UAVs empoyed in non-miitary appications are generay smaer in size as compared to those used by the miitary and these have been and are being empoyed for missions reated to search and rescue, disaster management, aeria fiming, survey, crop spraying and inspection of power or pipe ines. A these operations are generay undertaken at very ow atitudes and as such have not usuay been in confict with reguar manned air traffic in controed civi air space except when carried out in the vicinity of active airports as in the case of the episode at Dehi airport cited above. What is noteworthy is that the variety and number of UAVs in the non-miitary segment, the roes these are being empoyed in and their capabiity as we as performance eves are mutipying rapidy. In view of the immense potentia UAVs have to offer in the civi domain, their rapid growth is inevitabe. As such, the resutant impications of air operations in the domain of civi aviation wi undoubtedy be serious and can no onger be ignored. As per the Directorate Genera of Civi Aviation (DGCA), the civi aviation reguatory authority in India, it has become necessary to introduce appropriate reguatory mechanisms to ensure the proper integration of operations by UAVs with manned aircraft operating in controed civi air space. This is necessary and vita for the safety of manned air traffic. INTEGRATING UAVS IN CIVILIAN AIRSPACE. The integration of operations by UAVs into controed civi air space wi, without doubt, invove a variety of compex operationa, procedura and technoogica chaenges. For UAVs to operate in controed airspace, these patforms wi need to meet the same eve of airworthiness requirements as manned aircraft to be certified by the DGCA. Each of the eements and technoogy that make an aeria patform unmanned such as the sense-and-avoid system, wi require its own airworthiness certification. This is where the industry and the reguatory authority wi need to interact and coordinate their efforts. Just as in the case of a manned aircraft, for a UAV that is in fight, there are three areas in which interface wi be necessary. These are firsty between the Remote Piot controing the UAV from the IN THE WAKE OF THE INCIDENT AT DELHI AIRPORT ON AUGUST 20 THIS YEAR, THE DGCA HAS REVIVED EFFORTS TO REGULATE THE USE OF UAVS ground, secondy, between the UAV and the Air Traffic Contro Centre (ATC) and thirdy, between the UAV and the other traffic, both manned and unmanned, operating in the same airspace. At present, UAVs are not fuy autonomous and as such, reiabiity of the data ink, direct or through sateites, between the unmanned patform in fight and the Remote Piot who may be sitting on the ground even thousands of mies away, woud be of critica importance. The integration of unmanned patforms with manned aircraft traffic in nationa air space wi require review of current poicies, procedures, standards, reguations, environmenta impact, privacy and ega issues, identification of deficiencies in current UAV technoogies and deveopment of new technoogies. The new technoogies wi have to be deveoped that wi make the UAV fuy autonomous. There wi aso be a need for a massive upgrade of ground based Air Traffic Contro system and reated infrastructure with cear thrust towards tota automation. THE INDIAN SCENE. Whie the US and Europe are eading goba efforts for the integration of UAVs with manned air traffic in civi airspace, India is unfortunatey agging far behind. The fact is that deveopments in the regime of UAVs in the civi domain have not been as impressive as in the West and this is attributabe to the absence of favourabe poicies and reguations to encourage indigenous design, deveopment and manufacture of unmanned patforms. This segment of the aviation industry aso suffers from the absence of security guideines as we as ack of suitabe mechanism to enforce these even if these were avaiabe. This is one reason why there has been unreguated proiferation of UAVs in India resuting in unmanned patforms becoming a serious security hazard. In 2014, the DGCA had issued a pubic notice prohibiting the aunch of a UAV by private individuas or any non-governmenta agency. This restriction was imposed on account of security concerns as UAVs whose operations are not propery reguated, coud be used by anti-nationa eements to carry out attacks against vita instaations or pubic paces. Unfortunatey, such a notification woud unwittintgy have been a serious disincentive for entrepreneurs desirous of investing in the Indian aerospace industry in the private sector for research and deveopment of UAVs. Aso, as of now, there are no reguations for certification of Remote Piots and UAVs in India. Two years ater, in Apri 2016, the DGCA issued a fresh circuar in which the reguator observed that UAVs are proiferating into the recreationa fied and are ikey to be used in severa other domains causing probems for the reguator with regard to safety of other users of airspace as we as persons and infrastructure on the ground. The reguator stated that in view of technoogica advancements in this fied over the years and their increased civi appications, it has become necessary to deveop guidance materia to reguate this activity. In this circuar, the reguator aid down guideines for obtaining Unique Identification Number (UIN) as we as for operation of UAVs in civi airspace. However, there were no concrete steps towards proper integration of UAVs with manned air traffic. In the wake of the incident at Dehi airport on August 20 this year, the DGCA has revived efforts to reguate the use of UAVs and has announced its intent to come out with a draft reguation for operation of UAVs in the near future. However, proper integration through automation of UAVs as we as the air traffic contro system is sti far away. Reguatory measures on paper wi ony impede the growth of UAVs in Indian airspace. SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

14 DRONES SECURITY ILLUSTRATION: Anoop Kamath AIRPORT SECURITY PLUG THE GAPS What magnifies the overa threat matrix is the China-Pakistan cousive anti-india nexus that has no compunctions to expoit terrorism as a too for terrorising India BY P.C. KATOCH 12 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G

15 DRONES SECURITY O PHOTOGRAPH: DJI N AUGUST 20, 2017, fight operations at Dehi airport were suspended for around two hours with cosure of the runways when an internationa airine piot spotted a drone-ike object operating in the area. Later in the evening, another internationa airine piot spotted a simiar object near Termina 3, foowing which fight operations were hated for 40 minutes. As per reports, the poice have not yet identified the individuas who were operating these drones. Severa fights had to be diverted away from Dehi because of these disruptions. This is perhaps the first such incident in India; but there have been many at Heathrow Airport in London where drone enthusiasts few their machines cose to the airport. The danger here is terrorists using drones to down aircraft and that too by night, as it woud be difficut for piots to spot the drones. Recenty, a drone anded undetected on HMS Queen Eizabeth, Britain s new and argest aircraft carrier. A spokesman for the British Ministry of Defence said: We take the security of HMS Queen Eizabeth very seriousy. This incident has been reported to Poice Scotand and an investigation is under way. Meanwhie, we have stepped up our security measures in ight of this incident. Whie the drone that anded undetected on HMS Queen Eizabeth was taking photographs, it coud have been depoyed for sabotage as we. Just ast month, a one Russian drone reportedy carrying a Thermite grenade, bew up biions of doars worth of ammunition when it struck the Baakiya miitary base in Eastern Ukraine. We have arge buit up areas adjacent to airports and aong the fight path of aircraft taking off or anding. The aircraft are thus particuary vunerabe when fying ow during anding and takeoff. Besides, the capabiities of drones have gone up exponentiay. In May 2016, ten DJI Phantom-4 PRO hi-tech drones made in China, equipped with advanced sateite navigation system and capabe of fying at 6,000 metres with a haf kg payoad, were seized from a passenger at Kempegowda Internationa Airport, Bengauru. The DJI Phantom-4 PRO drone has a Tap-by-Use feature which aows users to tap on an individua in a crowd on his screen and aowing the drone to ock and track the person. Now, Forida-based Duke Robotics has unveied the TIKAD, a custom-buit muti-rotor drone that can carry and fire various miitary weapons, incuding semi-automatic rifes and grenade aunchers. Just prior to Repubic Day in 2016, Mohammad Abduah from Hyderabad managed to enter the Indira Gandhi Internationa Airport (IGIA) at New Dehi on a fake Etihad ticket for UAE and spent ten days in the termina buiding unnoticed. The sequence of events was as foows. On January 11, 2016, he checked in with Etihad, who found his ticket to be forged and reported the matter to the Centra Industria Security Force (CISF). However, he was et off. Within an hour, he took another printout of the ticket and reentered the airport through another gate. This time, he remained there for ten days before a housekeeping staffer tod CISF that he TODAY ALSO, THERE ARE NO MEASURES IN PLACE FOR CHECKING AUTHENTICITY OF THE TICKET CARRIED BY PASSENGERS Chinese made DJI Phantom-4 PRO hi-tech drone had noticed the man at the termina for the past few days. CISF then apprehended Mohammad Abduah and handed him over to Dehi Poice on January 20, In 2015, more than 50 peope were caught at IGIA, New Dehi hoding fake tickets, whie about 20 cases were reported in In March 2016, a young man managed to sneak into the IGIA termina with a pisto. In May 2016, six men were arrested from the IGIA termina for roaming around suspiciousy. A week before that, poice arrested a foreigner who had sneaked in to see off his girfriend. Today aso, there are no measures in pace for checking authenticity of the ticket carried by a passenger. Web check-in tickets have barcodes and so do boarding passes. So why bar codes can not be made mandatory for air tickets issued by airines and trave agents, which can be checked at the entrance of the termina? Aso, according to the media, IGI airport foows the SHA Security Pan under which a person does not have to undergo frisking before entering the termina buiding, but is not this taking the easy route? Have we ooked around and observed what procedures internationa airports in other countries foow? There is no way one can enter internationa airports in countries such as Nairobi or Adis Ababa without being frisked as aso screening of baggage and Adis Ababa being major hub on internationa routes, has equa number of daiy passengers as IGIA if not more. Another issue is of baggage screening. Earier, at Dehi airport, baggage screening was done at the entrance to the passenger area. But check-in baggage is now screened after being booked at the check-in counter. At Kokata internationa airport, the screening machine is at one end of the passenger area and the sma pacard saying you need to screen the baggage is next to individua check-in counters, which you may notice ony after you progress further up in the ong queue. The CISF provides security services to 59 airports in the country operated by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and a few private companies So why can not procedures be standardised? If we can not ensure screening of baggage before or at the very entrance to the passenger area of the airport terminas, are we not faciitating terrorist attacks simiar to what happened at Brusses airport? What magnifies the overa threat matrix is the China-Pakistan cousive anti-india nexus that has no compunctions to expoit terrorism as a too for terrorising India. We need to take the threat seriousy and pug the gaps in the system to secure our airports for the webeing of the traveing pubic. SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

16 REGIONAL AVIATION ROLE JETS CAN DECONGEST MAJOR HUBS With the major hubs heaviy congested, the question anaysts ask is why operators do not connect regiona airports with right size aircraft without transiting through the major hubs? BY R. CHANDRAKANTH ILLUSTRATION: Anoop Kamath DELHI PUNE 14 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G DEHRADUN

17 REGIONAL AVIATION ROLE I NDIAN AVIATION CONTINUES TO soar to greater heights. The Directorate Genera of Civi Aviation (DGCA) has stated that India s domestic airines carried miion passengers in 2016 as against miion in 2015, registering a per cent growth. By 2020, passenger traffic at Indian airports both domestic and internationa, is expected to increase to 421 miion. India has overtaken Japan (97 miion domestic passengers) to take the third spot, but it is sti way behind China (436 miion) and the US (719 miion). However, India wi become the third argest market two to three years ahead of what has been projected earier. Whie such humongous passenger growth is good, the worrysome part is that infrastructure, particuary airports, wi come under severe pressure, uness of course, corrective action is taken and in time. India s key airports at Dehi, Mumbai, Bengauru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Kokata account for 66.5 per cent of India s tota air traffic and the rest comes from the neary 100 other operationa airports. The six airports isted above are the major hubs and are facing capacity crunch. These six ocations require new airports by or even earier. Meanwhie, the government is deveoping 50 un-served and underserved airstrips as ow-cost airports in Tier-II and -III cities. Each of these airports is estimated to cost between `100 crore to `150 crore. It is not just air traffic congestion at these major hubs, Dehi and Mumbai being the worst affected, there exist probems at the termina eve as we. This is ikey to worsen as more panes get inducted into the feet of the airines. Presenty, India has over 430 aircraft in service and the airines are expected to add 100 aircraft in the next 18 to 24 months and over 700 airpanes in the next decade, a of which wi add to the congestion woes of the hubs. RIGHT-SIZE AIRCRAFT FOR POINT-TO-POINT TRAVEL. With the major hubs heaviy congested, the question anaysts ask is why operators do not connect regiona airports with right size aircraft without transiting through the major hubs? From the perspective of a passenger traveing from an airport in Tier-II or -III city, presenty air trave is cumbersome. He has to be at the airport at east 45 minutes before departure, add to that the fight time to a major hub, before reaching fina destination. The ayover time is a nuisance. Though air trave reduces the trave time from point-to-point, secondary and tertiary sector passengers tend to spend more time in accessing the airport and CONGESTION AT THE HUBS CAUSES Much onger trave time Hub airport resources over-stretched Deays in andings Deays in take-offs Extra burning of aviation fue Doube take-off and Doube anding Twice the process of Security cearances Unsoicited wastage of passengers time Passengers discomfort Increased environmenta issue, thanks to deayed andings in ayovers. Anaysts hope that in UDAN, regiona connectivity wi be such wherein operators wi ook at routes that wi avoid major the hubs. Embraer cas it the concept of hub bypass. LONG LAYOVERS. One of the exampes anaysts give is why can t there be a fight between Madurai, a tempe town in South India to Jaipur, the pink city in Rajasthan or vice versa and the frequency of these fights can be determined based on demand. A SpiceJet fight from Jaipur to Madurai takes 7 hours 55 minutes with two ayovers, one in Dehi for 1 hour 5 minutes and another in Chennai for 35 minutes. This is reay stretched for a passenger who is seriousy ooking at direct routing options, even if it means paying a itte extra as he or she woud be saving on time and ayover issues. Presenty, there is no such connection and a passenger from Madurai woud have to make a trip via Chennai, Bengauru or Dehi which is not ony additiona time in the air, but aso additiona airfare. The passenger from Madurai or Jaipur or any other such unconnected city by direct fights fees et down, even whie the government is making grand pans for regiona connectivity. Whie it is good to connect a hub to a Tier-II or -III city, the effort shoud be to connect Tier-II to another Tier-II or -III city and hep decongest the hubs. REGIONAL JETS FOR PAN-INDIA COVERAGE. This coud be done by depoying a regiona jet which can fy the required distance without any stopover. The reasoning is that singe-aise aircraft such as the A320 is too big for the journey, eaving many seats unsod, whie the turboprops are idea for short hau. It is quite a situation for airine revenue anaysts who have to suggest the right aircraft for such direct ong routes and regiona jets are best suited to fi that sot. With seating capacity from 70 to 130, these jets are not ony capabe of fying the pan-india distance but aso can have optima oads. As the next phase of air traffic growth is expected from India s Tier-II and -III cities, many of these passengers being first-time fyers, the urgency to provide direct connections to important destinations across the country needs no emphasis. These traveers are ooking at air trave for ong routes, whie for short distance trave between five and eight hours by surface transport, they can do it by taking an overnight bus or train or even driving down. Taking a fight for a destination which is five hours by road does not make any sense, as access to the airport itsef takes about two hours (incuding check-in time, security cearance, etc) and traveing from the airport to the destination takes an average of an hour. The fight time is haf hour to 45 minutes. A one is doing is saving about an hour, but paying an average fare between `2,500 and `3,000. Whether it is worth it, ony the passenger can answer depending upon urgency and the preferred mode of trave. McKinsey report on airport congestion in metros states that airines tend to depoy bigger aircraft to accommodate more passengers. McKinsey cas it up-gauging wherein many airines start using bigger panes even on short-hau fights. In 2002, neary haf of short-hau seat capacity at Beijing Capita Internationa Airport was carried on wide-body aircraft. Wide-body usage fe significanty through 2010, as demand picked up for trave to secondary Chinese cities. But by 2012, a year after the airport became saturated, a new trend began. Wide-body use rose again as carriers were forced to upgauge in order to hande the increased voume of passenger traffic. SP S AIRBUZ Issue

18 REGIONAL AVIATION ROLE INDICATIVE INFORMATION AS TO HOW HUBS ARE GETTING CONGESTED AS THE RIGHT CAPACITY IS NOT BEING USED FOR POINT-TO-POINT CONNECTIVITY Bengauru to Impha Bengauru to Srinagar Jet Airways Layover in New Dehi Indigo Layover in Kokata Layover in Kokata SpiceJet Layover in New Dehi/Jammu/Chandigarh Air India Air India Layover in New Dehi Hyderabad to Chandigarh Vistara Layover in New Dehi Indigo Layover in New Dehi/Mumbai Jet Airways Layover in New Dehi GoAir Layover in New Dehi Indigo Layover in New Dehi/Chandigarh Air India Layover in New Dehi SpiceJet Layover in New Dehi Layover in New Dehi/Kokata/Mumbai Vistara Layover in New Dehi Bengauru to Lucknow Bengauru to Varanasi Indigo Air India Layover in New Dehi/Mumbai SpiceJet Layover in New Dehi/Hyderabad Jet Airways Layover in New Dehi Bengauru to Bagdogra SpiceJet Layover in Kokata Jet Airways Layover in Kokata/Mumbai/New Dehi Air India Layover in New Dehi Indigo Layover in Kokata Vistara 2 Stop Layover in Kokata/Guwahati Guwahati to Hyderabad Indigo Layover in New Dehi Jet Airways Layover in Mumbai Air India Layover in New Dehi GoAir Layover in Mumbai Hyderabad to Amritsar Jet Airways Layover in New Dehi Air India Layover in New Dehi Vistara Layover in New Dehi SpiceJet Layover in Mumbai/New Dehi Ahemdabad to Kochi Indigo Layover in New Dehi/Kokata/Bangaore Jet Airways Layover in New Dehi/Kokata/Bangaore Air India Layover in Kokata SpiceJet Layover in Bangaore Go Air Layover in New Dehi Chennai to Lucknow Jet Airways Layover in Mumbai/New Dehi Air India Layover in Mumbai/New Dehi SpiceJet Layover in Chennai/Bangaore/Hyderabad Indigo Layover in Hyderabad/ Mumbai Pune to Dehradun Indigo Layover in New Dehi JetAirways Layover in Mumbai Air India Layover in New Dehi Air India Layover in New Dehi Jet Airways Layover in New Dehi Go Air Layover in Mumbai SpiceJet Layover in New Dehi Indigo Layover in Bangaore Hyderabad to Lucknow Bengauru to Dibrugarh Vistara Layover in New Dehi Air India Layover in Kokata Jet Airways Layover in New Dehi/Mumbai Indigo Layover in Kokata Air India Layover in New Dehi Jet Airways Layover in Kokata GoAir Layover in New Dehi Source: Above is an Indicative ist out of data coated from respective airines websites CONNECTION-HEAVY ROUTES GET DROPPED. Evidence suggests that as an airport gets more constrained, airines drop connection-heavy routes in favour of routes with high point-to-point demand, which are more profitabe. Airines operating out of congested airports tend to increase the frequency of fights on existing routes, rather than offer new destinations. Between 2002 and 2014, many arge, unconstrained airports in and around Europe expanded their networks; Chares de Gaue Airport in Paris added approximatey 30 new cities to its ist of short-hau destination ist during this time, and Istanbu Ataturk Airport added more than 60. Airines at Heathrow, however, actuay reduced the number of short-hau destinations they serve 16 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G but increased the frequency of fights to those cities. In short, as airports get busier, they offer more fights to fewer cities; unconstrained airports serve more cities, ess frequenty. This pattern is simiar for onger fights. Seats on direct fights to and from congested airports are at a premium. Demand outstrips suppy, which means airines sometimes increase prices to focus on premium traffic. In 2012, the average price of a direct fight to or from Heathrow was more than three times that of nearby Gatwick. This makes perfect sense when the trave is from a hub to another hub or another destination in demand which can be cassified as primary market. This primary market is extremey competitive. Embraer has identified about 158 markets which

19 REGIONAL AVIATION ROLE Embraer E195-E2 has been designed to maximize returns and efficiency on high-density routes PHOTOGRAPH: Embraer SMALLER RIGHT-SIZED AIRCRAFT OFFER A NEW STRATEGIC MINDSET TO THE AIRLINE, AS IT DRIVES A SHIFT FROM COMPETING TO CREATING NEW MARKET SPACE AND SEEKING OUT UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITIES have about four competing airines with over ten daiy fights and one can understand the kind of margins the airines wi be having, uness of course, it is peak season when airfares skyrocket. Embraer has identified over 800 markets which have ess than one to five daiy fights which can be easiy served by a regiona jet. Based on this market study, it has estimated an industry demand of up to 350 units in the seat segment. Making simiar argument are airframers such as Canada s Bombardier with CRJ700/900/1000 aircraft, Russia s Sukhoi offering Superjet Internationa, China s ARJ21, Ukraine s Antonov with An-148/158 and Japan s Mitsubishi Regiona Jet. EMBRAER S E-JETS MAKING THE RIGHT PITCH. The Embraer E-Jet famiy is a series of medium range twin-engine regiona jet airiners, carrying 70 to 146 passengers commerciay. The Braziian aerospace congomerate Embraer has created something caed FeetSmart, a comprehensive range of feet optimization soutions based around three key principes design smart, experience smart and business smart. The E-Jets 170; 175; 190 and 195 have been around the word, giving operators an opportunity to capitaize on routes that neither turboprops or wide-bodies can viaby hande. The E-Jets are designed for short to medium range fights, thus being the answer to regiona aviation. The E-Jets E2 are the atest offering from Embraer and the argest aircraft in the E-Jet E2 famiy, the E195-E2 has been designed to maximize returns and efficiency on high-density routes, where the A320s and Boeings cannot fy with fu capacities. The E195-E2 is optimized to cover more than 99.9 per cent of routes within the singe-aise segment, thus tapping routes which are not hitherto directy connected. The E2 seating configuration comes in categories three casses 120 seats 12 28@34 and 80@31 pitch; Singe cass 132 pitch and 146 seats@28 pitch. The runway egends have been the ERJ 130; 140; 145 and 145XR. The airiner is making the right noises for regiona aviation, whie directy and indirecty soving the issue of congestion of airports. CHINA S ARJ21 FOCUSING ON SECONDARY CITIES. China is aggressivey ooking at connecting its secondary cities with regiona jet and its ARJ21 is righty positioned for that. The ARJ21 is the first short-medium range turbofan regiona aircraft deveoped by the Chinese. It has a ayout of 78 to 90 seats and a range of 2,225 to 3,700 km. The aircraft has aready notched up orders of over 400 from 19 different customers, signifying the need to fi the gap between short-hau to narrow-body aircraft and aso of the need to connect secondary cities. Simiary, Russia s SSJ100, a 100-seater airiner is being widey used by Aerofot to connect the hinterand. Whie it has a fairy good base in Russia, it has not made any significant inroads internationay, except in Mexico, Armenia and Ireand. BOMBARDIER S SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL JET PROGRAMME. Making a strong case for regiona jets is Bombardier s CSeries aircraft, the ony singe-aise pane specificay designed to serve the seat market. This drives the aircraft s phenomena economic proposition and performance, opening up new opportunities in this segment. And for mediumhau appications, the CRJ Series famiy of aircraft is the benchmark for regiona jet efficiency in the 60 to 100-seat segment, offering up to ten per cent advantage in operating cost, reduced environmenta impact and enhanced cabin interiors. With over 1,900 CRJ Series aircraft ordered wordwide, Bombardier s CRJ Series famiy of regiona jets is recognised as the most successfu regiona aircraft programme in the word. Then there is the Antonov An-148 which has a maximum range of 2,100-4,400 km and is abe to carry passengers depending upon the configuration. The Antonov An-158 is a stretched fuseage version of the aircraft, accommodating up to 99 passengers. Meanwhie, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced that the first deivery of the Mitsubishi Regiona Jet (MRJ) wi take pace between mid-2018 to mid-2020, a programme deayed, but it is on as there is a market for the medium-range aircraft. These smaer right-sized aircraft offer a new strategic mindset to the airine, as it drives a shift from competing to creating new market space and seeking untapped opportunities. Besides opportunities, it heps in decongestion of hubs across the word. SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

20 Interview Pratt & Whitney Pratt & Whitney is committed to continued customer support to meet the new demands of the 21st century. The PurePower GTF engines are a eader in sustainabe aviation. These engines are ceaners, greener and quieter. Pratt & Whitney is transforming aviation with the most technoogicay advanced engines on the commercia engines, miitary engines, sma jet and turboprop engines. The company opened its Goba Customer Training Centre in Hyderabad, India, in September This is the third centre of its kind in the word. Paash Roy Chowdhury, Managing Director, Pratt & Whitney India, in conversation with Neetu Dhuia of SP s AirBuz. Pratt & Whitney Transforming Aviation PHOTOGRAPH: Pratt & Whitney Neetu Dhuia (SP s): What is Pratt & Whitney s contribution to the emerging aviation market in the country? Paash Roy Chowdhury (Chowdhury): Pratt & Whitney is part of United Technoogies Corporation, one of the word s argest suppiers of aerospace products, with an estabished presence in India. Offering engine soutions for over seven decades now, Pratt & Whitney has payed a significant roe in India s aviation growth story. The company s product suite incudes arge commercia engines, miitary engines, sma jet and turboprop engines and other genera, regiona and civiian powered fight engines. Best known for its advanced technoogy and unique manufacturing techniques, Pratt & Whitney is committed to continued customer support to meet the new demands of the 21st century. The company is proudy eading the industry by creating environmentay friendy processes, innovative services and more efficient engines. There are we over 100 aircraft in India powered by V2500 engines made by Pratt & Whitney and Internationa Aero Engines AG, a consortium in which Pratt & Whitney is a majority sharehoder. The company is now deivering the PurePower Geared Turbofan engines for Airbus aircraft ordered by airines in India. There are aso ten C-17 miitary transport aircraft in India that are powered by Pratt & Whitney s F117 engines. Today Pratt & Whitney Canada powers cose to 400 aircraft in genera aviation, business aviation, regiona aircraft and heicopters in India. This incudes sma turboprop in PT6 cass and PW127 and PW150 on Regiona aircraft, PW300, PW500, PW600 turbofans on corporate jets and turboshaft engines such as PT6B, PT6t and PW200. Pratt & Whitney Canada aso powers the atest Turboprop trainers (Piatus) inducted by the Indian Air Force. Pratt & Whitney is transforming aviation with the most technoogicay advanced engines on the commercia engines, miitary engines, sma jet and turboprop engines, and other genera, regiona and civiian powered fight engines. With 26 deveopment and production engine programmes, today is one of the most exciting chapters in Pratt & Whitney s history. SP s: How do you foresee India s Aviation market in view of the UDAN scheme? Chowdhury: India is an important strategic market for Pratt & Whitney and we see a tremendous opportunity in the Indian government s regiona connectivity scheme, UDAN which wi acceerate air trave penetration through regiona connectivity and wi make air trave affordabe for many in India. UDAN scheme is a game-changer, as it wi stimuate regiona connectivity through a market-based mechanism thereby creating huge demands for air trave. This wi aso act as a mutipier effect in unocking India s tourism potentia, increasing trade and creating job opportunities across verticas. As we move forward, we are sated to have hundreds of Geared Turbofan engines powering aircraft in India. This wi be one of the argest insta bases for our GTF engine on aircraft. In the regiona connectivity space, aircraft such as the ATR or Q400 are powered by P&W Canada engines. As a ong-cyce business, Pratt & Whitney has and wi continue to make substantia investments in shaping the future of India s civi aviation sector. We understand and are committed to serving the growing demands of our customers with a futuristic approach of improving the jet engine technoogy, which wi power the industry for decades to come. 18 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G

21 Interview Pratt & Whitney The India-Task Force aims to promote biatera diaogue by being the voice of the industry, partnering with governments to organise trade missions and advocating for reguatory changes on behaf of its members. The Task Force wi engage with various stakehoders to promote internationa best practices and address potentia hurdes that surface as American and Indian companies deepen engagement in India s burgeoning civi aviation market. PHOTOGRAPH: purepowerengines.com SP s: How does Pratt & Whitney contribute in reducing the carbon footprint? Chowdhury: Pratt & Whitney is deveoping and powering nextgeneration propusion systems and technoogies that provide an immediate path to fue efficiency, ower emissions and noise reduction.the need to reduce fue consumption is one of the key requirements of the aviation sector. We have come out with a combination of improved engine technoogy, aerodynamic improvements and weight-saving technoogy in our engines which are effective in reducing the carbon footprint.the PurePower GTF engines are a eader in sustainabe aviation. These engines are ceaners, greener and quieter. Ceaner. The Pure Power PW1000G engine famiy cuts fue consumption by 16 percent versus today s best engines from regiona jets to mainine singe-aise aircraft. Fue efficiency with the new-generation of engines wi save airines about 15 biion gaons of fue, owering fue costs by $40 biion from now to We are working on Gen2 turbofan technoogy which is targeting additiona fue burn savings for the 2020s and beyond. Greener. The reduction in emissions among the new-generation engines wi aow airines to avoid 160 miion tonnes of CO2 emissions through 2025 and cut carbon emissions by more than 3,600 metric tonnes every year; equivaent to taking three miion cars off the road. Quieter. The PurePower PW1000G engine famiy reduces the noise footprint by 75 percent. That effectivey means that in a surrounding airport community, such as LaGuardia Airport in the New York City area, about 500,000 fewer airport neighbours wi be impacted with the noise from takeoff and anding. The GTF is aready vaidated for five different advanced biofues, and we are co-eading the process of approving even more. GTF engines address the whoe picture, fue, emissions, noise and maintenance. SP s: Coud you eaborate on your Make in India initiatives? Chowdhury: India is one of the most important strategic markets. Pratt & Whitney recognises the country s word-cass engineering and technica proficiencies as we as market opportunities it offers. As a company that is deepy embedded in India as an investor, we firmy support the Make in India campaign that transates the government s vision of making India a goba manufacturing hub. We intend to contribute to the sustainabe economic growth and generate empoyment opportunities by buiding a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation and jet engine production in the country. Pratt & Whitney sources engineering and design services from a number of Indian companies for some of its most advanced aerospace products. We have over 1,000 engineers in India working on goba projects. We have estabished a chair and a centre of exceence at the renowned Indian Institute of Science focusing on high-end research in the area of turbo machinery. SP s: Te us about the Pratt & Whitney s Customer Training Centre India. Chowdhury: Pratt & Whitney opened its Goba Customer Training Centre in Hyderabad, India in September This is the third centre of its kind in the word after US and China and has been estabished to support our customers in the region. The centre wi aso hep address the shortage of a skied work force in India s aviation industry. This word-cass faciity received certification from DGCA in Apri 2017, which means that the training centre is now fuy approved to offer DGCA-approved training sessions on V2500-A5 engines. It is expected to soon offer courses on PW1100G-JM and other modes from the PurePower Geared Turbofan famiy of engines. We have aready provided over 2000 student days training and are working with a number of universities and state governments to estabish a robust aviation ski deveopment patform in the country. SP s: How do you pan to hande the gitches in the engines of the A-320neo airiners? Chowdhury: We are effectivey addressing the eary-service items with the hep of our partners and customers. The engines are per- SP S AIRBUZ Issue

22 Interview Pratt & Whitney forming as promised in terms of fue efficiency, emissions and reduction of noise footprint. The GTF engines continue to produce 16 percent fue efficiency, 50 percent carbon emission reduction and 75 percent noise reduction, making it the engine of choice for the future. SP s: Can you te us about Pratt & Whitney s aftermarket service EngineWise? Chowdhury: Pratt & Whitney offers a unique combination of technoogy and innovation that can hep improve engine maintenance panning for customers. Pratt & Whitney is unifying its aftermarket service portfoio through EngineWise, the branded suite of aftermarket services, and wi introduce new offerings to support customers evoving needs. It iustrates our commitment to provide smart maintenance soutions to hep our customers respond faster to their operationa needs to run their businesses efficienty. A key eement of EngineWise is our use of data to predict maintenance needs and possiby prevent off-wing events, in partnership with our customers. Our phiosophy is shared inteigence; the smarter we are together, the better service we can provide our customer. It offers a number of advantages, incuding: State-of-the art data anaytics and rea-time inteigence to hep predict and prevent operationa disruptions before they occur. Significant investments in new technoogy and resources to increase responsiveness and fexibiity. A growing portfoio of service offerings to provide smarter, more straightforward soutions. Improved customer communications to drive more transparency and connectivity with our customers. Major offerings under the Pratt & Whitney EngineWise Service brand incude: Feet Management Programmes A customised, comprehensive doar-per-fight-hour agreement to optimise cost of ownership over the ife cyce of an engine. Engine Overhau Services For operators who prefer the assurance of a fixed price or time and materia engine maintenance soution. Materia Soutions New and serviceabe parts and part repair services provided by the engine OEM designed to extend part ife and improve residua vaue. New service offerings wi continue to be added over time, based on customer needs. SP s: Can you briefy tak about your new brand patform Go Beyond and what it focuses on? Chowdhury: We recenty aunched Go Beyond - our new brand patform which represents both the company s ong-standing commitment to acceerating the technoogy of modern fight and the never stop soving mindset of our empoyees. Over the course of Pratt & Whitney s 90-pus year history, one eement of cuture has aways stood out and that is dedication to pushing imits and going beyond to find the next great innovative step forward. Every day we touch upon ives of peope who depend on Pratt & Whitney engines in service today and it is a singuar honour for everyone at Pratt & Whitney. This new patform is based on three soid imperatives: Empowering our empoyees. Optimising our operations.engaging customers to transform their experience. With this new promising patform, We go beyond for our partners, customers, and most of a, for each other, because we understand what we do resuts in peope connecting with each other, economies benefiting from greater access to markets and trade, and ensuring miitaries around the word are mission ready. P&W has aways been a eader in innovation and we take a purposefu approach to our digita strategy to continue our industry eadership. Our story goes beyond just data points, to the creation of practica, pragmatic soutions that drive empoyee s webeing and customer satisfaction. We are intent on deivering this vaue through prudent investments, buiding and expanding our digita soutions to get there. SP s: You have been appointed as the Chairman of USIBC India-Task Force on Civi Aviation. What are the objectives of this task force? Chowdhury: I am honoured to be entrusted with the responsibiity of eading this initiative at a time when the Indian aviation industry is poised to scae new heights. With the Task Force, we intend to support growth of US corporations in India by aigning with the priority areas of the Indian government and further nurture the spirit of entrepreneurship and job creation to successfuy contribute to the goba economy in the coming years.the India-Task Force aims to promote biatera diaogue by being the voice of the industry, partnering with governments to organise trade missions and advocating for reguatory changes on behaf of its members. The Task Force wi engage with various stakehoders to promote internationa best practices and address potentia hurdes that surface as American and Indian companies deepen engagement in India s burgeoning civi aviation market. SP s: What a is being done in the regime of bio-fues? Can you share the status on its impementation? Chowdhury: Pratt & Whitney has word-eading expertise in the deveopment, testing, vaidation and combustion engineering of sustainabe aternative jet fues (SAJF). Miions of gaons of SAJFs have been contracted by commercia airines with various fue suppiers wordwide and Pratt & Whitney engines seamessy fy with it every day. Our company continues to examine ways to expand our invovement with and usage of SAJFs within our own operations. More robust facts are as under: Five sustainabe aternative jet fues (SAJFs) are approved for use in commercia jet aircraft today. Seven more are in the testing and approva cyce. A are bends of a pure bio-fue or synthetic fue with conventiona petroeum-based Jet-A. P&W has word-eading expertise in SAJF compositions, testing, vaidation, and combustion engineering P&W has a key technica eadership position within the ASTM subcommittee responsibe for SAJF approva. A engine OEMs participate in the approva process and a have to concur on approva. Once approved, SAJF may be used in any manufacturer s engines. Approved SAJFs are functionay indistinguishabe from conventiona Jet-A fue. Miions of gaons of SAJFs have been contracted by commercia airines with various fue suppiers wordwide and P&W engines seamessy fy with it every day. The principe advocacy group for SAJF is the Commercia Aviation Aternative Fues Initiative (CAAFI). P&W is very active within CAAFI, with eadership positions incuding co-ead of CAAFI s R&D technica committee. P&W is continuousy examining ways to expand our invovement with and usage of SAJFs within our own operations. SP 20 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G

23 ENGINES P&W Pratt & Whitney s PurePower Geared Turbofan PW1900G engine wi power the Embraer E190-E2 aircraft ENGINE DOMINANCE IN COMMERCIAL AVIATION With over 13,000 arge commercia engines instaed today, Pratt & Whitney provides dependabe power to hundreds of airines and operators every day PHOTOGRAPH: BY R. CHANDRAKANTH C ONNECTICUT-BASED UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (UTC) has a the reasons to ceebrate the success of one of its companies Pratt & Whitney which has estabished itsef as one of the dominant payers in engine deveopment in commercia aviation. Of a the UTC companies, Pratt & Whitney has registered encouraging profits for the quarter ended June 30, 2017 compared to the same period previous year, whie others are agging behind a bit. Bringing to the market disruptive technoogies, Pratt & Whitney is expected to take a eading roe in commercia aviation. With over 13,000 arge commercia engines instaed today, Pratt & Whitney provides dependabe power to hundreds of airines and operators every day. Its feet of commercia engines has ogged more than one biion hours of fight, powering the narrow- and wide-body aircraft that fy both passengers and cargo around the word. Not sitting on aures, the company is continuousy innovating in power-pant design, pioneering effort. The company s patented technoogy has changed the boundaries of time and shortened the distance between peope and paces. In the ream of commercia aviation, its engine offerings incude the best-seing PurePower PW1000G; V2500; GP7200; PW ; PW ; PW ; PW6000; JTD8 and JTD9. SP S AIRBUZ Issue

24 ENGINES P&W PUREPOWER PW1000G ENGINE. Pratt & Whitney s PurePower PW1000G Engine Famiy is not just a concept or a promise for the future it is reaity. With 20 years of research and deveopment, component rig testing on a major modues, extensive ground and fight testing underway, two engines in the famiy certified and the PW1100G-JM carrying passengers on a daiy basis, the PurePower PW1000G engine with Geared Turbofan technoogy deivers game-changing reductions in Fue burn; environmenta emissions; engine noise; and operating costs. In the PurePower PW1000G engine famiy, a state of the art gear system separates the engine fan from the ow pressure compressor and turbine, aowing each of the modues to operate at their optimum speeds. This enabes the fan to rotate sower and whie the ow pressure compressor and turbine operate at a high speed, increasing engine efficiency and deivering significanty ower fue consumption, emissions and noise. This increased efficiency aso transates to fewer engine stages and parts for ower weight and reduced maintenance costs. The PurePower PW1000G engine s fan-drive gear system is just one component of this next-generation engine. The PurePower PW1000G engine aso incorporates advances in aerodynamics, PRATT & WHITNEY S ARRAY OF ENGINES HAVE BENEFITTED AIRLINES SUBSTANTIALLY AND THIS MAKES THE UTC COMPANY A LEADER WHO UNDERSTANDS THE NEEDS OF THE COMMERCIAL AVIATION BUSINESS WHICH IS HIGHLY VOLATILE, AFFECTED BY FUEL PRICES AND OTHER FACTORS. ightweight materias and other major technoogy improvements in the high-pressure spoo, ow-pressure turbine, combustor, contros, engine heath monitoring and more. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES. Pratt & Whitney has been activey testing a key components of the PurePower PW1000G engine famiy, with 16 technoogy rigs running around the word. The PW1100G-JM engine for Airbus A320neo famiy of aircraft and the PW1500G engine for the Bombardier CSeries are certified. The PW1400G-JM engine for the Irkut MC-21 aircraft, the PW1200G engine for the Mitsubishi Regiona Jet and the PW1900G for the Embraer E190-E2 are a in testing. The PW1100G-JM began powering revenue fights in January V2500 ENGINE. The V2500 engine is designed and manufactured by Internationa Aero Engines, a goba partnership of aerospace eaders incuding Pratt & Whitney, Japanese Aero Engine Corporation and MTU Aero Engines. Internationa Aero Engines brings advantages in technica exceence and manufacturing expertise, with a reputation of producing the engine of choice for the Airbus A320 famiy. 22 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G V2500 engines offer the most advanced technoogies in the 22,000- to 33,000-pound thrust range with owest overa emissions in its cass. GP7200 ENGINE. The GP7200 is derived from two of the most successfu wide body engine programmes in aviation history. The Engine Aiance, a 50/50 joint venture between Genera Eectric Aviation and Pratt & Whitney, was estabished in 1996 to deveop, manufacture, se and support a famiy of advanced technoogy engines for new high-capacity, ong-range aircraft. The resut is the GP7200, a twin spoo axia fow turbofan that deivers 70,000 pounds of thrust for the Airbus A380. The GP7200 is derived from the PW4000 and GE90 famiies. The engine benefits from each programmes atest proven technoogies and incorporates essons earned from more than 25 miion fight hours of safe operation on both engines. The GP7200 entered service in 2008 with the word s argest A380 feet, Emirates. The first GP7200-powered A380 was deivered to Air France in Since entering service, the GP7200 has achieved a 99.9 per cent departure reiabiity rating without experiencing a singe in-fight shutdown. PW ENGINE. The PW inch fan engine is the first mode in the PW4000 famiy of high-thrust engines. It covers a range of 52,000 to 62,000 pounds of thrust and has five major aircraft appications. Approved for 180-minute Extended-range Twin-engine Operations (ETOPS), the engine provides airines with exceent operationa fexibiity and high reiabiity. Advanced, service-proven technoogies, such as singe-crysta superaoy materias and its Fu-Authority Digita Eectronic Contro (FADEC), contribute to superior fue economy and reiabiity. The engine s benefits are further enhanced by exceent performance retention, ong on-wing times and ow maintenance costs. The PW4000 s noise and emissions parameters are ower than eves required for a current and anticipated emissions and noise reguations. For a further reduction in emissions, Pratt & Whitney s TALON (Technoogy for Advanced Low NOx) combustor technoogy is now avaiabe for the PW4000. Since entering revenue service in 1987, Pratt & Whitney has deivered more than 2,500 PW engines that have coectivey ogged more than 120 miion dependabe fight hours on commercia aircraft around the word. PW ENGINE. Pratt & Whitney has taken its successfu PW inch engine for the Airbus A330 to new heights with the introduction of the PW4170 Advantage70 programme. The Advantage70 is offered as a new engine and as an upgrade kit for existing engines. It deivers superior engine performance, incuding a two per cent thrust increase, over one per cent reduction in fue consumption, increased durabiity, and reduced maintenance costs. Deveoped specificay for the Airbus A330 twinjet and introduced in 1994, the PW inch fan engine has thrust capabiity from 64,500 to 70,000 pounds at take-off. The engine was the first in aviation history to quaify for ETOPS prior to entering service. It is now approved for 180-minute ETOPS. Pratt & Whitney suppies A330 customers the entire propusion system engine, nacee, thrust reverser and accessories. This, aong with superb service reiabiity, exceent performance retention and ow cost of ownership, make the PW inch engine an outstanding vaue. PW ENGINE. The PW inch engine, an utra-high-thrust mode covering the 74,000 to 90,000 pound-

25 ENGINES P&W PHOTOGRAPH: pw.utc.com Airbus A380 aircraft, which is seen at the ast year s Farnborough Airshow, is powered by has four GP7200 engines from Engine Aiance (EA), a joint venture between GE Aviation and Pratt & Whitney thrust cass, is the reiabiity, experience and ETOPS eader for the 777 aircraft, providing the best customer vaue. The engine s advanced, service-proven technoogies incuding singe-crysta super aoy materias, powdered meta disks, and FADEC, provide exceent operationa performance and durabiity. These features contribute to the engine s exceent environmenta performance, which meets with margin a current noise and emissions reguations. The PW inch engine retains the outstanding accessibiity and component moduarity of other PW4000 famiy members to reduce maintenance time and cost. For transportabiity, the engine can be shipped in a 747F aircraft as a compete engine. JT8D ENGINE. Pratt & Whitney introduced the JT8D to commercia aviation in 1964 with the inaugura fight of Boeing s aircraft. The JT8D engine has proven itsef to be a highy durabe and reiabe engine, having competed more than 673 miion dependabe fying hours since entering service. Once deemed the workhorse of the industry, more than 14,750 JT8D engines have fown. Today, there are 2,400 engines sti in use. Pratt & Whitney has deveoped a new ow-emissions combustion system, or E-Kit, that is FAR 25-certified to ensure the JT8D200 engine stays current with environmenta reguations. The E-Kit reduces JT8D-200 engine NOx emissions by 25 per cent and exceeds a ICAO standards for new production engines. PW6000 ENGINE. The PW6000 engine covers the 18,000- to 24,000-pound thrust cass and is targeted for 100-passenger aircraft. The PW6000 is currenty offered on the Airbus A318, which is part of the successfu A320 aircraft famiy. The PW6000 buids on proven technoogy from other Pratt & Whitney advanced engine programmes to deiver the owest cost of ownership for 100-passenger aircraft operators. Pratt & Whitney has incorporated technoogica advances in the PW6000 that enabe a reduction in parts count for ower acquisition cost as we as a reduced maintenance cost. The PW6000 meets a current and anticipated noise and environmenta reguations. For airines contempating the future acquisition of new 100-passenger aircraft, the PW6000 is an exceent choice as it was specificay designed for high-cyce operation in the demanding short-hau aircraft market. The PW6000 meets the chaenges of ow cost, cean, quiet, reiabe, and durabe power for airine customers. JT9D ENGINE. Pratt & Whitney s JT9D engine opened a new era in commercia aviation: the high-bypass-ratio engine to power wide-bodied aircraft. Since entering service on the Boeing 747 aircraft in 1970, the JT9D engine has proven itsef to be the workhorse for eary 747, 767, A300, A310 and DC-10 aircraft modes with more than 3,200 cumuative engines deivered. The JT9D engine famiy consists of three distinct series. The JT9D-7 engine covers the 46,300- to 50,000-pound-thrust range, and the JT9D-7Q series has a 53,000 pound thrust rating. Later modes, the -7R4 series, cover the 48,000- to 56,000-poundthrust range. For JT9D-7R4 twinjet instaations, the engines are approved for 180-minute ETOPS. Pratt & Whitney s array of engines have benefitted airines substantiay and this makes the UTC company a eader who understands the needs of the commercia aviation business which is highy voatie, affected by fue prices and other factors. SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

26 TECHNOLOGY CONNECTIVITY STAYING CONNECTED Honeywe is betting big on an estimated $7 biion market opportunity gobay in Connected Aircraft business offering services that cost much ess than in-fight entertainment today. On board the avionics maker s Boeing 757 test aircraft, we experience bazing fast Internet that coud be a game changer in the airine market. BY ROHIT GOEL ONBOARD THE HONEYWELL CONNECTED AIRCRAFT PHOTOGRAPH: Honeywe H ONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, BROUGHT IN a connected aircraft, a Boeing 757, for the first time to India to showcase their connected aircraft technoogies and services which can hep airines to reduce fue consumption, maintenance cost and provide high-seed Wi-Fi on board. Piots wi be abe to avoid cear air turbuence thanks to reatime weather information, whie passengers can downoad movies at east as quicky as they can at home, a thanks to Honeywe s Connected Aircraft concept. Estimating the market for connected aircraft to be $7 biion gobay and that there woud be rapid adoption of such technoogies, Honeywe forecasts that by 2025, an estimated 25,000 panes wi be equipped with Wi-Fi with consumer demand making airines invest in such technoogies. A connected aircraft can reduce fue cost and emission by 5 per cent, can receive, transmit, anayse and share data enabing more informed decision-making, hep reduce operationa costs and offer an improved fying experience. Honeywe estimates that fight deays wordwide cost airines about $25 biion and a grounded commercia jet, whie being worked on, can cost up to 24 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G $10,000 an hour. A connected aircraft can hep avoid a that, the company said. The amount of data generated by a fight is breathtaking. A singe twin-engine aircraft can generate up to 844TB of data from 12h of fight, which is approximatey 27,000 32GB iphone 7s, Honeywe says. An Airbus A380 is fitted with as many as 25,000 sensors. Leveraging new technoogy and much more reiabe high-speed Wi-Fi connections, the Connected Aircraft connects an airpane s components and equipment, enabing each to immediatey send, receive and anayze data thereby improving feet management, fight safety, passenger experience, maintenance, fight operations, aircraft turnaround time and costs. The GoDirect Fight Preview appication gives piots a highy accurate, three-dimensiona preview of the runway and surrounding terrain before they take off to enabe preparation for difficut or unusua approaches. This technoogy gives piots confidence to and at new airports and optimize route seection for faster, safer and more efficient fights. Adjusting to the right fightpath using GoDirect Fue Efficiency software reduces the amount of fue piots use as it coects, monitors and anayses data to hep operators optimise fue efficiency and seect the most fue-effi-

27 TECHNOLOGY CONNECTIVITY CONNECTED AIRCRAFT cient fightpaths. With GoDirect Connected Maintenance, airines can be more efficient and predictive in the way they maintain their feets. They proactivey troubeshoot mechanica issues to avoid aircraft downtime. On board the connected aircraft, GoDirect Weather gives piots rea-time weather data on the fightpath, aowing them to pan the safest, most efficient routes possibe. A new connected radar function wi provide crowd sourced weather information from other aircraft in the sky and share that information through an app, giving an accurate view of the weather around the word. Aso, the aircraft can provide 10 to 100 times faster Wi-Fi speeds whie ensuring a secure communication ink to and from the aircraft. Passengers wi get on-board internet at speeds that wi be as good, if not better than at home with speeds in excess of 30mbps. The system, caed JetWave has seamess goba broadband access to the Inmarsat GX sateites. You can downoad your movies from your seat and no onger have to do it before you board. With more than 1,000 deiveries to date, Honeywe is advancing in-fight Wi-Fi around the gobe. Leading goba airines have adopted the technoogy, namey, Lufthansa Group, Singapore Airines, Qatar Airways, Vietnam Airines, Air Caraibes, Air New Zeaand, Sri Lankan Airines, Ethiopian Airines, Norwegian Air Shutte and Air Astana. The connected aircraft using big data, anaytics and secure communications technoogy can now better anticipate opportunities ensuring smooth experience for passengers whie aircraft technicians can get to know what parts of the aircraft need repair before the fight arrives, heping in faster turnaround times. THE BENEFITS OF CONNECTED AIRCRAFT. Feet Management Reduces fue costs and emissions by up to 5 per cent Reduces operationa disruptions by up to 35 per cent Cut down Inoperative Equipment by up to 86 per cent Passenger Experience Provides X faster Wi-Fi speeds Offers high speed connection with fewer drops Faciitates smoother and safer fights Fight Operations Cuts the cost of network disruption Saves up to 5% in fight time with ATC priority Improves arriva times and dispatch speed Ground Operations Reduces grounded time Avoids costy hazards Cuts troubeshooting time by up to 25 per cent Access to high-speed connectivity has the potentia to bring about a revoution in aircraft operations unocking critica data ike weather information, engine usage, maintenance reporting and more that can be better shared and anayzed to hep operators improve efficiency and reduce costs. Enhanced passenger experience on the pane woud be an added benefit. Reiterating Honeywe s commitment to India, Neeu Khatri, President, Aerospace, Honeywe India said As one of the word technoogy eaders in reiabe, goba and high-speed connectivity soutions, Honeywe supports the oca authority s vision for India s airines to offer in-fight Wi-Fi on a fights. Honeywe is dedicated to government initiatives such as Make in India and Regiona Connectivity Scheme, and our focus on deveoping strategic reationships and investments in high-growth regions supports India s growing aerospace and defence industries. SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

28 INTERVIEW HONEYWELL ONE-ON-ONE THE IMPORTANCE THAT WE GIVE TO THE INDIA MARKET IS VERY, VERY HIGH! Connectivity is a about efficiency and productivity and it can be used by major airines, the smaer airines, the business and corporate aviation, even defence aircraft. Honeywe Internationa, brought in a connected aircraft, a Boeing 757, for the first time to India to showcase their connected aircraft technoogies and services. In an interview, Neeu Khatri, President Aerospace, Honeywe India, taks to Rohit Goe of SP s AirBuz about Honeywe s connected soutions for the Indian market. PHOTOGRAPHS: Honeywe Honeywe s Boeing 757 Connected Aircraft SP s AirBuz (SP s): Taking about on-board connectivity, has there been any kind of research that Honeywe has conducted to identify the demand? Neeu Khatri (Khatri): This is a great market for us. Ony when we see a great need in the market, do we start taking up the R&D activities. Overa, we are ooking at $7 biion in connected theme, a portion of which is Wi-Fi connectivity. 26 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G SP s: What kind of time, money and effort has gone into the deveopment of this soution? Khatri: It has been on for many years. The soution came out of Honeywe in the ast 4-5 years but the deveopment phase is much onger in the aerospace word. SP s: And, what is the current status?

29 INTERVIEW HONEYWELL On-board the Connected aircraft, the range of connected soutions from Honeywe is showcased Khatri: Gobay, Lufthansa airine is using it. Singapore Airine is another that is using it. We are in taks with many airines incuding LCCs across the word. We have conducted this two-day demo fight in Mumbai and Dehi. We few with the cients and there is immense interest coming up both from Government, private airines, fu-service, defence, etc. We had a ot of attendees both from the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Civi Aviation. SP s: What about permissions and cearances from various reguatory bodies? Do you aready have them in pace? Khatri: As far as the poicy is concerned, the ministries are deaing with the reguatory body that is working on it. As and when we are caed in, we give our inputs. As far as the certification, on the products are concerned, we have it. Some things we don t have, that woud come up as and when the reguatory go ahead is given in India. The important part is that we are ready and are extremey excited to be coming up in India. This is the first time our connected aircraft actuay came to India. For Honeywe, India is a high-growth region. So we wait for the nod from the Government. As and when it comes, we wi be ready. PHOTOGRAPH: Rohit Goe / SP Guide Pubns SP s: Are you offering this ony to commercia airines or business and corporate aviation as we? Khatri: Connectivity is a about better maintenance, saving costs, better Wi-Fi connectivity onboard and it can be used by major airines, the smaer airines, the business and corporate aviation, even defence aircraft. It is a about efficiency and productivity. SP s: What wi it take for a commercia airine to convert its aircraft into Wi-Fi enabed? Khatri: The existing aircraft wi have to go in for a retrofit. For the newer aircraft on order and most of the airines in India have gone in for huge orders, it means to add as and when they receive it, it gets fitted in. Cost wi depend upon the soution that the airine wants. There are various kinds of soutions that are avaiabe and the cost depends upon it. SP s: Wi it invove a reduction in number of passenger seats? Khatri: No, the soution wi not take any seats away. It is a soution that gets fitted on the roof of the aircraft and gets connected with the aircraft. A the passengers need to do is to bring their own device, go to the settings and get it connected. SP s: Wi this not ead to noise poution in a confined space? What do you think about it? Khatri: No. The soutions, before it comes up in the market, before we aunch it, there are every scenarios that are tested on these soutions. There are years of R&D that happens. We are very comfortabe that there is no impact on the quaity and effectiveness of the soution irrespective of the number of passengers onboard the aircraft. SP s: Shoud there be any reguation or protoco governing the use of in-fight connectivity by the passengers? Khatri: I think it is more about discipine. If you trave in the US and Europe, there is Wi-Fi connectivity avaiabe on aircraft, even on oca trains. There is some kind of a discipinary guidance that most of these providers give to the passengers. If we are abe to do that, I don t see any probem. It is more about discipine which I am sure that the airines wi aso give out those guideines. SP s: What kind of a price point woud a passenger be wiing to pay for Wi-Fi onboard? Khatri: That is up to the airines to do the research and tak about. It is reay not for us to say. We are there with the technoogy, with different types of soutions that we can offer to the needs that the airines come up with what kind of range, what kind of bandwidth, how many peope, that is up to us. Pricing is definitey decided by the airines. SP s: So what are your expectations from the Indian market? Khatri: For us, it is a big potentia. We ca India as our highgrowth region. A eyes, both from domestic eadership to goba eadership are on India. We know that these are exciting times in terms of feet expansion, feet acquisitions, more number of tais fying, the regiona connectivity scheme emerging out in India. The importance that we give from Honeywe to the India market which is our high-growth region is very, very high! SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

30 SHOW REPORT PARIS AIR SHOW 2017 Star of the Show: Embraer dispayed its E195-E2 as a hunter, the Profit Hunter at the show. The dispay which was quite a unique depiction of the aircraft abiity, received spectacuar attention from the show visitors. PHOTOGRAPH: Embraer SHOW BILLS $150 BILLION DEALS Continuing on this winning note, the organisers announced that the 53rd Internationa Paris-Le Bourget Air Show, the word s biggest aerospace fair, wi be hed from June 17-23, 2019 BY R. CHANDRAKANTH 28 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G

31 SHOW REPORT PARIS AIR SHOW 2017 T HOUGH THE NUMBER OF visitors to the iconic air show of the word at Le Bourget Air Show, better known as Paris Air Show, saw an eight per cent drop, what grabbed headines were the astounding deas that were struck, totaing over $150 biion. There were 897 orders and purchasing commitments for a cataogue vaue of $115 biion for a tota of 934 commercia aircraft setting a new record for orders. The Chairman and CEO of Paris Air Show, Emeric d Arcimoes, decared This 52nd Paris Le Bourget Air Show was a remarkabe success with a record number of exhibitors and $150 biion worth of orders announced, despite the sight drop in the number of visitors. The impressive demonstration fights of Dassaut Aviation s Facon 8X, the presentations of the A380 by the French aerobatic demonstration team, the Patrouie de France, the Airbus A and A400M and other aircraft deighted the French President as we as the pubic from the first to the ast day of the show. Whie the organisers stated that it was a success for innovation, they aso gave out encouraging numbers: Exhibitors exhibitors (three per cent more than in 2015) from 48 countries (the same as in 2015); trade visitors-1,42,000 (six per cent fewer than in 2015); genera pubic-1,80,000 visitors (ten per cent fewer than in 2015). The sight drop in the number of trade visitors can be ascribed to a number of exhibitors budget restrictions. The drop in genera pubic attendance may be expained party by the heightened security measures and the heat wave, the statement said. There were 27 nationa paviions and 140 aircraft on dispay, both static and aeria.these incuded the Airbus A321neo, Airbus A , Boeing B787-10, Boeing B737 MAX 9, Mitsubishi MRJ90, at Le Bourget for the first time. Dassaut Aviation s Facon 8X, the Airbus A380 and A400M, the Airbus Tiger and NH90 Caiman heicopters were popuar with the pubic. There were 290 officia deegations from 98 countries and seven internationa organisations, incuding 160 officia defence deegations from 86 countries and four organisations (NATO, the UN, OCCAR and the EU). BIG BOYS MAKE NOISE. Deegations apart, Paris Air Show is a batteground for many airframers. For the aviation companies, Paris continues to be a good hunting ground, particuary for the big two payers Airbus and Boeing who ratte their sabres here, besides Embraer, Bombardier and other emerging payers from China, Japan, knocking on their doors. BOEING TAKES COMMANDING LEAD OVER RIVAL. Boeing strengthened its market position with important announcements and muti-biion doar orders and commitments for commercia airpanes and commercia and defence services at the Show. The company aunched the 737 MAX 10, the newest member of the 737 MAX famiy, with more than 361 orders and commitments from 16 customers wordwide. This wide market acceptance endorsed the 737 MAX 10 as the industry s most efficient and profitabe singe-aise airpane. Commercia customers announced incrementa orders and commitments during the week for a tota of 571 Boeing airpanes, vaued at $74.6 biion at ist prices. Boeing reveaed its 2017 Current Market Outook, raising its 20-year outook to more than 41,000 new airpanes, vaued at $6.1 triion. Boeing aso forecasts significant growth in the Aerospace Services Market, projecting $2.6 triion demand in commercia and government services for the next ten years. Boeing confirmed its new Goba Services business remains on track to be up and running next month. Standing up a goba services business wi sharpen the company s focus and acceerate its capabiities expansion. Boeing Goba Services announced muti-year services agreements vaued at $6 biion during the Show. The announcements incuded: Commercia Services: UPS ordered three 767 Boeing Converted Freighters; Monarch seected Boeing s Goba Feet Care ( formery GodCare) and fight training services for its entire 737 MAX feet and Norwegian seected Boeing to provide a its fight training requirements across its Boeing feet. Government Services: Ros-Royce reached a parts and saes distribution agreement with Avia for support of its goba feet of AE defence engines; the Indian Navy chose Boeing to support its feet of P-8I maritime patro aircraft and the US Defence Logistics Agency signed a contract with Boeing to support its F-15 feet. Airpane Deveopment Vice President Michae Deaney aid out the deiberate, discipined and driven approach Boeing Commercia Airpanes is foowing with execution on the MAX, and 777X deveopment programmes and the study of how to optimay address the midde of the market in the next decade. Looking further into the future Product Deveopment Vice President Mike Sinnett expored the possibiities for advancing autonomous technoogy to hep enhance safety, decision-making and traffic management in the face of continued projected growth in air transportation. Boeing aso announced the aunch of Boeing AnaytX, which has brought together more than 800 anaytics experts from across the company focused on transforming data into actionabe insights and customer soutions. Five customer agreements were announced to provide soutions powered by Boeing AnaytX. The Boeing 737 MAX 9 starred in the daiy fying dispay whie the Dreaminer, P-8A, V-22, AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook were featured in the static dispay. AIRBUS NOTCHES UP NEARLY $40 BILLION BUSINESS. Providing strong evidence that the commercia aircraft market remains heathy, Airbus announced $39.7 biion worth of new business during the 2017 Paris Air Show. The company won commitments for a tota of 326 aircraft, incuding firm orders for 144 worth $18.5 biion and MoUs for 182 aircraft worth $21.2 biion. A320 Famiy aircraft saes and commitments were robust, with business accounting for a tota of 306 aircraft worth $33.8 biion. This tota comprises 132 firm orders worth $14.7 biion, and MoUs for 174 aircraft worth 19.1 biion. In the Wide-body segment, Airbus won business for 20 aircraft worth $5.9 biion, comprising 12 firm orders worth $3.6 biion and MoUs for eight aircraft worth 2.3 biion. John Leahy, Chief Operating Officer Customers, Airbus Commercia Aircraft said: Our commercia success this week at Paris extends our aready diversified order backog to a new industry record of over 6,800 aircraft, with 326 orders worth $40 biion. Further to the new orders, the show aso saw a repeat order from DHL Express for four more A Passenger-to-Freighter conversions, in partnership with EFW and ST Aerospace. Airbus not ony marked a soid saes tay but aso extended its vaue offering at both ends of its commercia product portfoio. In the Singe-Aise famiy, Airbus decided to offer the Airspace Cabin brand which, on the A320, incudes the biggest overhead bin in its cass. For the A380, Airbus has increased revenue-earning potentia with even better fue efficiency, thanks to enhanced arge wingets, greater cabin capacity and a new higher take-off weight capabiity to increase its payoad-range. In addition, Airbus week aunched a new open aviation data patform caed Skywise to support the digita transformation of the industry and add vaue for our customers operations. Skywise SP S AIRBUZ Issue

32 SHOW REPORT PARIS AIR SHOW 2017 combines Airbus aerospace expertise with advanced data anaytics soution provided by Paantir Technoogies. PHOTOGRAPHS: Airbus, ATR EMBRAER S PROFIT HUNTER GETS ATTENTION. Among the debutants here was the Embraer E195-E2, the newest member of the Braziian firm s famiy of regiona jets. John Sattery, President & CEO of Embraer Commercia Aviation, said that it s the biggest pane Embraer has ever buit and he expects airines wi recognise its vaue. It is very cheap to operate, it is very ight and we beieve airines wi be abe to generate extra revenue and that s why we ve caed it the profit hunter. Embraer s E195-E2 made its first internationa appearance in Paris decked out in a Goden Eage ivery to drive home the point that it is a profit hunter. We ve extended it by three rows and we ve improved the range by 600 nautica mies to 2,600. Sattery was confident that the new offering woud steadiy add to its 70-strong existing customer base. We are going to introduce new customers to the Embraer E-jet famiy. There wi be ow-cost carriers as we as traditiona fag carriers, so we are broadening our operationa franchise. We have a broad franchise footprint in continenta Europe and North America which account for most of our business. We expect to see saes of about 6,500 units over the next 20 years, said Sattery. The E2 famiy of aircraft are powered by Pratt & Whitney s PW1900G and use cockpit technoogy from Honeywe Aerospace. The E195-E2 which can be configured to 144 seats, is expected to enter service in At the Show, Japan s Fuji Dream Airines ordered up to six E175s which is incuded in Embraer s 2017 second quarter backog. Besides, FDA has aso extended the agreement for Embraer s Fight Hour Programme (Poo) for up to eight years. Simiary, Japan Airines made an order for an addition E190 foowing one year of E190 operations in Japan. AIR currenty operates seven E190s and 17 E170s 24 E-Jets in tota, with an additiona eight E-Jets on backog. KLM Cityhopper ordered two additiona E190s which wi join the existing 30 E190s and nine E175s fying with KLM Cityhopper. Deiveries for the newy ordered aircraft are schedued for When KLM Cityhopper s move to an a Embraer feet is compete, the airine wi have 49 E-Jets, the argest E-Jet feet in Europe consisting of 32 E190s and 17 E175s. The nationa carrier of Bearus, Beavia acquired two additiona E-Jets: one E175 and one E195. The aircraft wi join the four Embraer jets aready operated by Beavia two E195s and two E175s. The acquisition is an essentia part of Beavia s feet renewa initiative, a core priority in the airine s business strategy. Embraer aso announced firm orders and commitments for the E2 famiy from two undiscosed customers. These consist of ten E195-E2 s, with an additiona ten purchase rights for the E190-E2. Aso, according to the atest Market Outook, Embraer projects a steady market demand for 6,400 new jets in the seat capacity category (2,280 units in the seat segment and 4,120 units in the seat segment), worth $300 biion, by The seat jet word feet-in-service AIRBUS NOT ONLY MARKED A SOLID SALES TALLY BUT ALSO EXTENDED ITS VALUE OFFERING AT BOTH ENDS OF ITS COMMERCIAL PRODUCT PORTFOLIO 30 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G (Top) Doube-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet Airbus A380 and a321 on dispay at the show; (Above) Earier this year, ATR signed a dea for 50 ATR with the indian carrier IndiGo wi increase from 2,700 aircraft in 2016 to 6,710 by 2036, the fastest growing segment among a aircraft seat capacities. Market growth wi drive 63 per cent of tota demand and the remaining 37 per cent wi be deivered to repace ageing aircraft Demonstrating the company s unique position within the commercia, defence and executive aircraft markets, three Embraer aircraft were at the Show. This was Embraer s argest presence at a major air show bringing together a static dispay that showcased the new E195-E2, the argest member of the second generation of Embraer s famiy of commercia jets, the mutimission transport and aeria refueing aircraft KC-390 and the state-of-the-art mid-ight business jet Legacy 450, a remarkabe union of technoogy and design aircraft that fies faster and farther than any other jets in its cass. The accaimed runway egend ERJ 145 was aso on static dispay. ATR BEGINS 2017 ON A GOOD NOTE. ATR has received commitments for the purchase of 89 aircraft and options for 20 additiona ones since the beginning of the year. These commercia resuts have enabed the regiona turboprop manufacturer to achieve, in ess than six months, a book-to-bi ratio in excess of one.

33 SHOW REPORT PARIS AIR SHOW 2017 our aircraft provide the best soution at the ower risks. Regiona communities in China, India, Iran or Senega are about to experience what the brand new ATR -600s can bring not ony in terms of passenger comfort, but aso in terms of business deveopment PRATT & WHITNEY GETS EXTENDED RANGE ELIGIBILITY. Pratt & Whitney announced the grant of 180-minute Extended Range Operations (ETOPS) eigibiity for its PurePower PW w-jm engine by the European Aviation Safety Agency. This is a significant miestone for both the Pratt & Whitney team and the PurePower engine famiy. This 180 minute ETOPs cassification is the maximum required in its cass, said Chris Caio, President, Pratt & Whitney Commercia Engines. The US Federa Aviation Administration had approved ETOPs for the engine in December ETOPS certification sets the maximum aowed amount of singe-engine fying time that an aircraft can be from the nearest suitabe airport. The PW1100G-JM engine powers the A320neo. PHOTOGRAPHS: parisairshow.tv, ASDS Media (Top) Boeing 737 MAX 9 on the dispay; (Above) Mitsubishi Regiona Jet (MRJ) FTA -3 was on static dispay at Le Bourget Airport, Paris At the Paris Air Show, ATR announced new deas that wi enabe both ATR s and ATR s to deveop new markets in China and Africa in particuar. It announced two additiona orders: one ATR from Sweden s BRA, which brings the airines ATR feet to ten aircraft and one ATR from Air Tahiti, a ong-standing partner that has been operating ATRs for three decades. In tota, five new deas were announced. Earier this year, ATR signed a dea for 50 ATR s with the Indian carrier IndiGo, aong with orders for 20 ATR s and 20 options with Iran s nationa fag carrier, Iran Air. Since January, five customers have purchased ATRs for the first time, thus further strengthening ATR s eading position and attractiveness among carriers operating in the regiona sector. The 89 orders booked since the beginning of the year are vaued at over $2.3 biion. As of today, ATR has a backog of over 250 aircraft, corresponding to production for about three years. Christian Scherer, Chief Executive Officer of ATR, decared: The eve of saes we have booked in ess than six months refects a positive evoution in the market and that the ATR aircraft are the optima choice to open new routes at the owest operating costs for airines. No matter where there is potentia for regiona connectivity, BOMBARDIER SIGNS UP SPICEJET. Bombardier Commercia Aircraft has signed a etter of intent (LOI) with Indian ow-cost carrier SpiceJet for up to 50 Q400 turboprop airiners. The LOI incudes 25 Q400 turboprops and purchase rights on an additiona 25 aircraft. Based on the Q400 turboprop ist prices, the order coud be vaued at $ 1.7 biion. When finaised, the repeat order wi increase the Q400 aircraft feet in the fastgrowing market in the Asia-Pacific region and wi aunch the high-density 86-passenger mode of the Q400 aircraft in India, said Fred Cromer, President, Bombardier Commercia Aircraft. This is aso compeing evidence that the demand for turboprop aircraft is heathy in short-to medium-hau markets that can t economicay support jets that are more expensive to operate. SpiceJet operates India s argest regiona feet and is the ony organised operator in this space, said Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, SpiceJet. The acquisition wi hep us further increase connectivity to smaer towns and cities and hep reaise Prime Minister Narendra Modi s vision of ensuring that every Indian can fy. The Q400 is the argest turboprop aircraft avaiabe on the market and the 86-seat configuration wi support SpiceJet deveop its domestic operations from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities across India, said François Cognard, Vice President, Saes, SouthAsia and Austraasia. Since 2010, SpiceJet has taken deivery of 15 Q400 aircraft. The airine currenty operates 20 Q400 aircraft in a 78-seat configuration to domestic and internationa destination. MRJ DEBUT. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation brought the third Fight Test Aircraft (FTA-3) of the Mitsubishi Regiona Jet (MRJ) to Le Bourget Airport and the new generation regiona transport was on static dispay. This was the first trip to Europe for the MRJ. The aircraft conducted the ferry fight to Paris from Moses Lake via Winnipeg and Goose Bay, Canada and Kefavik, Iceand. FTA-3 is in the ivery of aunch customer A Nippon Airways Co, Ltd (ANA). I can t think of a finer stage on which to present this highy anticipated next-generation aircraft. The European debut of the aircraft is another sign of the progress of this programme, said Shunichi Miyanaga, President and CEO, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Yes, Paris is a fine stage for aviation companies. Despite the fewer footfas, the organisers were exuberant as the deas made a the difference. Continuing on this winning note, they announced that the 53rd Internationa Paris Le Bourget Air Show, the word s biggest aerospace fair, wi be hed from June 17-23, SP SP S AIRBUZ Issue

34 FINALLY THE MALAISE WITHIN In its report in which the CAG has hed the Ministry of Civi Aviation responsibe for the financia oss, the government auditor has finay managed to be the cat! ILLUSTRATION: Anoop Kamath A REPORT IN THE INDIAN media in the recent past indicated that the Comptroer and Auditor Genera of India (CAG), has pued up the Ministry of Civi Aviation for faiure on its part to adopt appropriate measures to recover dues of `9.19 crore from Kingfisher Airines when it was sti operating. The figure of `9.19 is indeed patry when viewed in the context of the sum the former Chairman of Kingfisher Airines owes to the consortium of Indian banks which is $1.4 biion or in the region of `9,000 crore. This is neary a thousand times the amount the defunct Kingfisher Airines set up by the now fugitive business tycoon Vijay Maya owes to Indian banks and the government. And with the passage of time, the dues wi ony grow on account of interest that wi continue to accumuate on the origina amount owed to the two agencies. In fact the sum owed to the Ministry of Civi Aviation (MoCA) has grown to `17.44 crore as of end March Vijay Maya, son of Vitta Maya took over as Chairman of United Breweries Group in 1983 after the demise of his father. Since then, the Group has grown into a mutinationa congomerate of over 60 companies. In 2005, when there was a boom in the Indian civi aviation industry, Vijay Maya aunched the gamorous Kingfisher Airines, named after the major acohoic drink produced by the company. Unfortunatey, owing fundamentay to fawed financia management and somewhat unwarranted extravagance, this new business venture coapsed and the Airine had to be cosed down in September 2012 eaving a huge financia iabiity on the company and on Vijay Maya personay. As a resut of this mess, Vijay Maya has anded up on the wrong side of the aw. He has been accused of being a wifu defauter under the Indian ega system and is facing charges of money aundering and misappropriation. Despite being armed with a huge ega machinery, the government appears to be at a oss as to what woud be an effective road map for recovering the humongous sums owed by Vijay Maya to the banks in India. In the case of sum owed by Kingfisher Airines to MoCA, even if the amount invoved 32 SP S AIRBUZ Issue G is reativey much ess, there has been compete axity in contro and management of the system of coecting dues from private operators. This case in point pertains to three agencies that were invoved in this exercise namey Kingfisher Airines who was the operator of air services, the Bangaore Internationa Airport Limited (BIAL), the company responsibe for running the Internationa Airport at Devanhai, Bengauru, now renamed as Kempegowda Internationa Airport (KIA) and MoCA representing the government. It was the responsibiity of Kingfisher Airines to coect Passenger Service Fee (PSF) as part of the ticket sod to the passenger. Thereafter, it was the responsibiity of BIAL to coect the PSF periodicay from the Kingfisher Airines and deposit it with the concerned department of MoCA. Owing to the tota financia mess, Kingfisher Airines had anded in, it had discontinued transferring PSF to BIAL. The atter in turn faied to take any steps to ensure that Kingfisher Airines fufied its obigation. The net resut was that the financia iabiity on Kingfisher Airines continued to mount and BIAL faied to take appropriate measures to recover dues from the airine, possiby on account of the high profie of its owner. As a resut, the MoCA was the oser. Instead of taking steps to recover the dues from Kingfisher Airines, in March 2014, BIAL approached the MoCA with a proposa to write off the dues recoverabe from the airine. MoCA was obviousy in no position to accede to this request as it woud be an undue favour to the defauter and condoning of faiure of BIAL to fufi their financia responsibiity. What is even more strange is the fact that MoCA was fuy aware of the fact that Kingfisher Airines was in defaut of timey remittance of PSF, but did not direct the airport operating agency to coect or remit the dues or initiate any other action in the matter. In its atest report on the subject in which the CAG has hed MoCA responsibe for the financia oss, the government auditor has finay managed to be the cat! SP B.K. PANDEY

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36 In a country ike India with imited support from the industry and market, initiating 50 years ago (in 1964) pubishing magazines reating to Army, Navy and Aviation sectors without any interruption is a commendabe job on the part of SP Guide Pubications. By this, SP Guide Pubications has estabished the fact that continuing quaity work in any fied woud resut in success. Narendra Modi, Hon be Prime Minister of India (*message received in 2014)