^ Grounding of an aircraft due to the manufacturers fault affects the airlines finances as the airline bears the brunt of the sudden grounding and cancellations. So, like in the case of the 320Neo's, if the manufacturer compensates the airline for the groundings, then that would make it more fair. ...
Jump to post<snipped> People who like to play devils advocates also denied that pilot error could be responsible for AF447......before it was revealed that that's what it was. As I said before - the pedantic amongst us will argue that "flight control issues" could reference anything that a person ind...
Jump to postjust reading this thread, as I suspected there is already a thread which has lot of inputs. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1417519&start=1550 Maybe we could put our concerns therein thereby not duplicating the efforts others are putting therein as well. Point taken thoug...
Jump to postDGCA rules out grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in India After reviewing the matter regarding safety issues post accident of Boeing 737 Max 8 Ethiopian Airline, the Director General of Civil Aviation today, ruled out grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in India. Currently, SpiceJet has 12 and ...
Jump to postalso can somebody look and tell https://twitter.com/Nidhi/status/1105318876068364288 From twitter - DGCA wants pilots with 1000 hours of experience to fly 737 MAX. FYI - the Ethiopian pilot had 8000 hours of flying experience; the Lion Air pilot had over 5,000 hours and his co pilot also had 5,000....
Jump to postalso can somebody look and tell https://twitter.com/Nidhi/status/1105318876068364288 From twitter - DGCA wants pilots with 1000 hours of experience to fly 737 MAX. FYI - the Ethiopian pilot had 8000 hours of flying experience; the Lion Air pilot had over 5,000 hours and his co pilot also had 5,000. ...
Jump to postcan somebody figure out https://prime.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/68366939/infrastructure/bot-from-the-blue-aggressive-bidders-for-airports-may-not-have-been-prudent-shows-the-experience-with-roads came on today's prime economic times. It's behind a paywall so can't make much sense. Any help w...
Jump to postjet airways still facing tailwind issues - https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/jet-airways-crisis-we-will-take-back-aircraft-if-restructuring-plan-not-approved-says-lessor/1510341/ also https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/naresh-goyal-to-shed-stake-to-17-in-jet-bailout-plan-len...
Jump to postThey did not need a placeholder as it is not like Vistara, Air India, Jet, Go and AirAsia were in any position to start India - Istanbul and steal the route from under their nose. My thinking is that there is strong advance booking otherwise it would be highly risky to start a second flight with ju...
Jump to postIndiGo has added a 2nd daily DEL-IST effective 25th March (5 days after the first daily service is due to begin). Their website suggests it will be operated by an A320, not A321. 6E 15 DEL0045 - 0515IST A320 D 6E 16 IST0615 - 1445DEL A320 D Timings change from 31st March. 6E 15 DEL1145 - 1545IST A3...
Jump to postI dunno what Indigo's plans are or how they hope to secure expat pilots from https://www.cnbctv18.com/aviation/analysis-indigo-remains-defiant-on-fleet-expansion-but-pilot-shortage-a-big-worry-2435581.htm/. AFAIK even China is doing lot of expansion, wouldn't it burn a hole in their already stretche...
Jump to postdid anyone see this https://scroll.in/article/914566/anothe ... y-business
Jump to postWhat about Ludhiana and Adampur? SG's DEL-AIP (Adampur) flight shows up as cancelled, but not 9I's DEL-LUH flight. The airspace was closed as a whole, so I expect both of them to be cancelled. Something truly great from 6E, which will surely turn out to be the opposite of another twitter disaster h...
Jump to postFount out https://blueswandaily.com/did-you-know- ... s-by-asks/
Jump to postTop 20 Countries by ASKs w/c 18-Feb-2019 https://i.postimg.cc/Zqk7TjXS/Did-you-know-Top-20-Countries-by-ASKs-210219.png Can somebody share the source of these numbers ? btw did anybody see this https://www.news18.com/news/india/indian-airlines-can-beat-emirates-and-etihad-says-spicejet-co-founder-a...
Jump to postHas anybody seen this - https://scroll.in/article/836309/indias-udan-plan-for-cheap-air-travel-will-not-make-flying-affordable-for-the-average-indian Another data point that most Indians cannot fly. Obviously not most Indians can fly but even if the number in increased to 10% from current 5% or som...
Jump to postHas anybody seen this - https://scroll.in/article/836309/indias ... age-indian
Another data point that most Indians cannot fly.
Apparently in the Indian Aero Show, Airbus is showing A330 Neo wide-bodies although no idea what the seating capacity of those will be.
See https://www.reuters.com/article/airshow ... SL1N20H07P
Even after that, the price used to be in the INR 3k+ range, whatever the base-price they may say (one-way), not exactly for the 'aam aadmi' I would say. You'll never find or airlines will never provide you one way tickets for cheap. It's always the return tickets which go cheap to rock bottom. Stil...
Jump to postDGCA data for Jan 2019: Jan 2018 month pax: 12.5m (+9.1%) Traffic growth falls to single digit after 53 months. SpiceJet crosses Air India in domestic traffic for the first time There are other articles saying how many airlines have flown empty seats this time . Anyways nice to see price discipline...
Jump to postMaybe somebody can read it and share the essentials with us - https://www.bloombergquint.com/bq-blue- ... -will-work (it's behind paywall)
Jump to posthttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-explains/explained-why-indigo-is-struggling-to-find-pilots-to-fly-its-planes/articleshow/68047503.cms This explains the pilots crisis in a bit more detail of Indigo That is a PG-rated version. Originally ET Explains(free) had a detailed version as ET Pri...
Jump to posthttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 047503.cms
This explains the pilots crisis in a bit more detail of Indigo
And replaces Mumbai- Jaisalmer with Mumbai- Bhopal, but only up until W'19 schedule as published, after which the former route is scheduled again. The chopping and churning of routes makes SG such an unreliable carrier with no network continuity. They announce a route with fanfare, operate a monopo...
Jump to postCan anyone guess what airport is being spoken of? L&T bags airport construction job worth over Rs 7,000 crore https://m.economictimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/construction/lt-arm-wins-over-rs-7000-crore-contract-for-building-major-airport/amp_articleshow/68047035.cms I cheated, looked at the...
Jump to postBusiness Standard has shone some light on the crisis at IndiGo (article behind paywall) https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/indigo-crisis-explained-planes-planes-everywhere-but-no-one-to-fly-them-119021700545_1.html The crux of the issue is as follows: IndiGo stopped hiring pilots w...
Jump to postA pair of 744s are used to fly BOM-HYD-JED-COK and back. The other pair is on VIP duty. Once the retro-fitted B777s take over VIP duties, AI will have no reason to keep the 744s operational. HYD/COK-JED flights may go to the A320NEOs. Only two are active, two are always in storage. When 744s are on...
Jump to postCan someone decipher what this news article trying to communicate? IndiGo spent Rs 835 crore on staff expenses in the December quarter, up 36% from the year earlier . Its total costs, excluding fuel, in the period rose 39% to Rs 4,628 crore. In the last three fiscal years, salary expenses have rise...
Jump to postParked 6E aircraft idling on the tarmac at BLR https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dzbi42hV4AAMhlq.jpg Photo courtesy of a pilot with a rival airline COO William Boulter says they have discussed with several airports in China and is confident that ops to China will be launched this year to two different ci...
Jump to postsnipped - Again anecdotal evidence but try to travel by road to Pune from BOM after arriving at middle of night. You can easily spot 50-60+ cars from KK travels doing airport runs between Pune and BOM. I'm pretty sure significant chunk of BOM traffic comes from Pune including me and my family who m...
Jump to postI completely agree with this, in fact I always wondered why IAF insists on maintaining airbases in middle of cities when in fact they would be better off having them outside the cities. Current PNQ is better positioned to handle civilian traffic as its very close to the city and IAF owns lot of rea...
Jump to postsnipped - PNQ was discontinued because PrivatAir which operated the aircraft went belly up. PNQ cannot handle widebodies due to runway and apron constraints and LH does not have a suitable partner or aircraft to resume PNQ. As far as I know, the flight was always successful and never an issue from ...
Jump to postIndiGo to recruit 100 pilots (captains) from abroad to tide over the shortage Somewhere between getting its own pilots hunted, to hunting pilots for its own, Indigo grew up. They need to start their own academy and have recruits sign up for 3-5 years with significant penalties and payback if they b...
Jump to postLufthansa open to partnerships for tapping Indian market. Planning to add 2 more destinations. https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/lufthansa-open-to-partnerships-for-tapping-indian-market-1550059114420.html Is there possibility of seeing lufthansa with PNQ again ? I never came to know why PNQ-F...
Jump to postLufthansa open to partnerships for tapping Indian market. Planning to add 2 more destinations. https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/lufthansa-open-to-partnerships-for-tapping-indian-market-1550059114420.html Is there possibility of seeing lufthansa with PNQ again ? I never came to know why PNQ-F...
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