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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:06 pm    Post subject: Indian Aviation and PARLIAMENT Reply with quote

www.uniindia.com

IA to take steps to get full fleet operational: Govt
New Delhi, Dec 19 (UNI)
As many as ten aircraft out of state-owned carrier Indian’s 57 Airbus fleet are grounded at present for maintenance and want of engines, Lok Sabha was informed today.
Observing that normally about seven aircraft remained grounded at any given point of time, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said during Question Hour that nine A-320s and one A-300 planes were presently not in service for major maintenance, want of engines or scheduled maintenance.
The Indian has a fleet of 57 Airbus aircraft -- six A-319s, 48 A-320s and three A-300s, he said, adding that efforts were on to increase engine availability so that optimum utilisation of aircraft as per laid down norms was achieved.
Asked what steps the government proposed to take on the ‘‘arbitrary decision’’ of private airlines to impose a congestion surcharge for hovering over Delhi and Mumbai airports, Patel said: ‘‘Domestic air fares are not regulated by the government after the repeal of the Air Corporation Act 1953. Domestic airlines are free to charge air fares as per their commercial judgement’’.
Maintaining that the average domestic aviation turbine fuel prices had declined by about eight per cent, he said the question that government should impress private carriers to reduce prices ‘‘does not arise’’.
To a question on Air-India’s plans to launch direct flights to the US from next summer, Patel said the fares on this route have not been decided. Air-India planned to launch the non-stop service after taking delivery of three new ultra-long range Boeing 777-200 LR aircraft in April-May 2007.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

5 aircrafts not flying... 10 engines short...! And Mr PP's having a good time opening newer routes to 9W and S2.

Watch out for more new routes for them to come soon Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any more news on what happened with the govt allowing 9W and S2 to fly to the Gulf.

About time IMO.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not yet.
The Parlaimentary Committee on Aviation that met today (Dec. 20) expressed its reservation over this and it looks like remaining an AI/IA monopoly for quite a while.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The reasons were Stupidity.
Good to see attempts to revive.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:52 pm    Post subject: Govt nod for five new pilot training centres Reply with quote

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Govt nod for five new pilot training centres
New Delhi , Dec. 20 (UNI)

The Government has given permission for the establishment of five more training institutes, even as flying clubs are being upgraded by inducting new equipment and aircraft to help overcome the shortage of pilots faced by the domestic civil aviation sector.

This emerged at the meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Civil Aviation held here on Tuesday.

At the meeting, Members of Parliament raised a number of issues including the need for improved ground-handling services at airports, the need for employee representation in the core group looking into the proposed merger of Air India and Indian, and disturbances in the schedule of Air India due to VIP movements. Mr. Patel came in for severe criticism on the issue of this disruption to Air India's schedules.
The Committee also wanted a clear view of the merger issue.

Besides, the impact of indiscriminate pricing by low-cost airlines and high cost of aviation turbine fuel on the entire industry was also raised.



Low cost carriers are getting a lot of attention.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Faced with an acute problem of sending mail to the Northeastern region, the Department of Post has proposed to acquire a freighter aircraft from Indian at a cost of Rs 48 crores, says a UNI report.
‘‘The Department of Post has proposed to wet lease a freighter aircraft from the Indian Airlines for conveyance of mail to the Northeast region. In addition to an initial one-time expenditure of Rs 12 crores, approximately Rs 36 crores would be incurred on this account per year,’’ Minister of State of Communications and Information Technology Shakeel Ahmad has told the Lok Sabha.
The prime objective of this proposal is to provide to the Northeast region, quality of service at par with that rendered by the Department in the rest of the country, he said.
The deployment of the said aircraft would expectedly generate additional revenue in terms of increased mail volumes, he added, says the UNI report.


The aircraft is to be a 737-200.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good to see more training centers in the country come around a much needed boost to the budding pilot youth population


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Following frequent instances of hydraulic failures in IA’s fleet of A-320s that keep putting passenger safety at risk, the aviation ministry has admitted this is a "known problem area" in this type of aircraft.


At this rate its not before long IA is going to lead India into the list of nations unsafe for air transport like Indonesia. I wish the DGCA was more stringent about its oversight of IA Engg and pulls up some of these overpaid inefficient IA engineers Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Today in Parliament:
The CISF has already decided to set up a special Aviation Training Institute in Hyderabad to train its men in handling security duties at the airports besides raising a separate dog squad for the purpose, says a UNI report.
The force is planning to construct a model airport, housing a terminal and apron area, at the institute to provide real-time training to its personnel besides using simulators to give them the cutting edge.
Besides airports, the CISF provides security cover to 13 seaports, nuclear and space installations, steel plants, coal fields, oil refineries, heritage and government buildings and note printing presses and mints.
The one-lakh strong force, which came into existence in 1969, was given the task of providing security to VIPs last year after which it raised 1,200 specially trained personnel for the purpose.

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The airports which have been taken up for modernisation and upgradation are Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Trivandrum, Amritsar, Dehradun, Jaipur, Khajurao, Kullu, Lucknow, Pantnagar, Srinagar, Udaipur, Bhubaneshwar, Gaya, Agartala, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Silchar, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Belgaum, Gondia, Nagpur, Pune, Raipur, Vadodara, Surat, Agatti, Calicut, Hubli, Mangalore, Madurai, Mysore, Tirupathi, Trichy and Visakhapatnam.
In addition, new greenfield airports were coming up at Hyderabad and Bangalore, Mr. Patel tolf Parliament today, says the UNI report.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI), he said, had spent Rs 566.22 crore, Rs 606.49 crore and Rs 876.08 crore for airport modernisation and upgradation in each of the last three years respectively.
On the progress of airport projects in Madhya Pradesh, the Minister said works at airports in Bhopal and Indore, the busiest in the state, had not been up to the mark for various reasons and effort were on to expedite them. The projects were at various stages in Jabalpur, Gwalior and Khajurao, he said.
While the new runway at Visakhapatnam airport would be opened for commercial use in a few months, the Minister said he would take up with the Defence Ministry the issue of upgrading West Bengal’s Bagdogra airport to an international airport as it could link flights to Nepal and Bhutan besides North-Eastern states and Bihar.
Patel said work on the Calicut airport would be completed well before the end of this year while ‘‘priority’’ was being accorded to modernisation of Kolkata airport where the project was expected to be ready in a few months.
Patel said he would help encourage various airlines to introduce more flights to Allahabad.
Priority was also being accorded to the work of modernisation of the airport at Bhubaneshwar as it was the only operational airport in Orissa, he said adding upgradation of the airport to international standard was expected to be completed by the end of next year.
Noting that he was aware of the problems at Patna airport, the Minister said he had talked to the previous and the present Chief Ministers of Bihar on making additional land available to increase the length of the runway there.
A team has also been sent to Bhagalpur in Bihar and a ‘‘positive reply’’ could be expected ‘‘very soon,’’ he said.
The airports which were proposed to be taken up for modernisation and upgradation in the near future were Juhu, Cuddapah, Pondicherry, Rajamundry, Tuticorin, Varanasi, Indore, Goa, Ranchi, Chandigarh, Port Blair, Rajkot, Coimbatore, Imphal, Jammu, Bhopal, Dimapur, Patna, Leh, Halwara, Behala, Cooch Behar, Shillong, Passighat, Akola, Baramati, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Vijaywada, Patel said, says the UNI report.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Praful Patel has said that the Government of Kerala has informed the Govt that a public limited company, ‘Air Kerala International Services Ltd.’, has been registered by the State Government as a Special Purpose Vehicle for a budget airline project.
Kerala has requested the Ministry of Civil Aviation for exemption to the proposed airline from stipulated conditions relating to fleet size and length of operation in the domestic sector for an airline to be considered for international operations.

The request was however, not considered by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, as the existing provisions of minimum fleet size of 20 aircraft and experience of five years of continuous operations in domestic sector for permitting an Indian schedule carrier to operate international services, are considered essential for safe and reliable operations on international routes.

Further, the Minister said informed, the Gulf routes are presently reserved only for Air India and Indian, says the UNI report.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

karatecatman wrote:


The request was however, not considered by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, as the existing provisions of minimum fleet size of 20 aircraft and experience of five years of continuous operations in domestic sector for permitting an Indian schedule carrier to operate international services, are considered essential for safe and reliable operations on international routes.

Further, the Minister said informed, the Gulf routes are presently reserved only for Air India and Indian, says the UNI report.


Well atleast he is the same to both the private and apparently new state run airlines

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The Ministry of Civil Aviation has given permission to a number of scheduled passenger airlines to import upto 80 seater passenger aircraft. This information was given by Praful Patel, Minister for Civil Aviation in the Parliament today, says a UNI report.

The Airlines which have got approval for import of such aircraft are Alliance Air, Jet Airways, Deccan Aviation, Sahara Airlines, Kingfisher Airlines, Paramout Airways and Indus Airways.

The Government provides concessions to airlines for operating aircraft of less than 80 seats. No landing charges are levied by the Airports Authority of India on aircraft with a maximum certified capacity of less than 80 seats being operated by domestic scheduled operators. Further, in the Finance Bill 2007, it has been proposed to amend Section 14 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 by including Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) sold to aircraft with maximum take-off mass of less than 40, 000 kgs. operated by scheduled airlines.


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Indian airlines employed as many as 565 foreign pilots, Praful Patel has said, says a UNI report.

Deccan Aviation Ltd, operator of India’s biggest low-fare airline, has 131 overseas pilots, the highest number, followed by Jet Airways (India) Ltd with 117, Patel told Rajya Sabha today.

He didn't give any comparative figures from a year earlier or say how many pilots work in India overall.

India’s air travel market will likely to grow 19 per cent annually in the five years ending March 31, 2012, Patelsaid

As many as six new airlines have started services in India over the past three years, boosting the demand for pilots.

India’s air travel market will likely to grow 19 per cent annually in the five years ending March 31, 2012, Patelsaid, citing Airports Authority of India, the state-run airfield operator.
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