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New Delhi/Rajasthan:-                                        In yet another achievement for the Airports Authority of India  (AAI), the Kishangarh   airport  in Rajasthan  is likely to be operational by next month. Kishangarh Airport AAI officials believe the new airport will cater to tourists who visit Ajmer on regular basis. Sudhir Raheja, Member (Planning) of the AAI, said, "Hostile to smile was the motto we were working on. Eventually, we won the trust of the people and were helped by the people and state government, and today, this airport is ready. Licensing work is underway and I expect that airport will be commissioned in August. A.K.Pathak, Executive Director of the AAI, said, Kishangarh Airport is one of the very important airports in the Rajasthan region. Ultimately", Kishangarh Airport will feed our Ajmer Sharif as this carries religious value...

New Delhi:-                      The  regional connectivity scheme  is going to allow new routes to be opened up in India,  Boeing  said today. Boeing "We expect RCS to allow new routes to be opened up, which will create a  market  of our Boeing 737, as airlines upgrade the aircraft on routes that opens up with regional connectivity," said  Dinesh Keskar , Senior Vice President, Sales, Asia Pacific and India, Boeing. Keskar said it today announcing the market outlook for India. Boeing said that  Indian carriers  would require about 2100 airplanes worth $290 billion over a period of 20 years.  "Of the total demand, a large number 1780 airplanes required will be single-aisle aircraft," said Keskar.

New Delhi:-                       Boeing  Co said on Monday it expects Indian airlines to order up to 2,100 new aircraft  worth $290 billion over the next 20 years, calling it the highest-ever forecast for Asia's third-largest economy. Boeing India is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation market  with domestic passenger traffic growing at more than 20 percent a year over the last few years. "The increasing number of passengers combined with a strong exchange rate, low fuel prices and high load factor bodes well for India's aviation market, especially for the low-cost carriers," said Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president, Asia Pacific and India sales at Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The world's biggest maker of jetliners said it expected  passenger growth  of about 8 percent in South Asia, dominated by India, over the next 20 years, compared with the world average of about 4.7 perc...

New Delhi:-                        Air India 's current business is "not sustainable" as it is neither able to generate enough cash flow nor start repaying even the principal amount on its debt, the government has told a Parliamentary panel. Air India With the Cabinet giving "in-principle" approval for selling stake in the loss-making Air India, a ministerial panel is working on the final contours of the proposed disinvestment. Against this backdrop, a parliamentary panel has sought details on the Air India disinvestment decision. Sources said the civil aviation ministry has provided a brief overview about the factors that led to the decision to sell Air India stake to the panel. In the current scenario, Air India is not in a position to generate enough cash flow, to be in a position to start repaying principal amounts on its debt, the ministry has told the panel, according to sources.

New Delhi:-                       India’s new regional air connectivity scheme (  RCS ) will help open up more routes and create a market for narrow-body airliners,  Boeing  said. Boeing “We expect RCS to allow new routes to be opened up, which will create a market of our  Boeing 737 , as airlines will eventually upgrade the aircraft on routes that open up with regional connectivity,” said  Dinesh Keskar , Boeing’s senior vice president for sales in the Asia-Pacific and India. Keskar made the comment while announcing the US plane manufacturer’s market outlook for India. According to Boeing, Indian carriers would require about 2,100 airplanes worth $290 billion (Rs 18.59 lakh crore) over 20 years. Of total demand, about 1,780 aircraft required will be single-aisle aircraft. “Increasing number of passengers combined with a strong exchange rate, low fuel prices and high load factors bodes well ...

New Delhi:-                      Air  India  has put on hold plans to lease  Boeing  787-9 planes amid the government's decision to divest stake in the airline, a senior official from the US aircraft maker said today. Air India Boeing also said it would honour commitment to  Air India , which is expected to take delivery of six more planes from the aircraft maker this fiscal. When asked about Air India's plans to induct 787-9 aircraft, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Senior Vice President (  Asia Pacific  and India Sales)  Dinesh  Keskar said those are on hold now. Air India has put on "hold" plans to lease Boeing 787-9s because of government's plans to sell stake in the carrier, he said here. Earlier this year, the airline's board had given its nod to induct seven Boeing 787-9s. Boeing 787-9 planes can accommodate up to 290 passengers. About delivery of other Boeing plane...

Mumbai:-                  IndiGo  would replace the industry’s traditional  sale-and-leaseback model  for aircraft financing with outright purchases for some of its future fleet additions, underscoring the focus on cutting total ownerships expenses by the low-cost airline that Monday posted the biggest-ever quarterly profit in Indian aviation. Indigo Airlines The adoption of the new business model, according to senior executives at the country’s largest carrier, would help IndiGo lower overall costs of  fleet ownership . ET had reported six days ago that an imminent change in global accounting standards will, among other things, impact IndiGo's aircraft lease rental strategy the most, and said that the new norms may prompt carriers to making outright purchases. Chief financial officer  Rohit Philip  said IndiGo will shift to a model of outright purchase. Aircraft kept in the fleet for long are better...

Mumbai :-                              An  Etihad Airways  aircraft with over 200 people on board suffered a tyre burst on landing, forcing the  Mumbai airport  authorities to shut operations at the main runway this evening. The operations were moved to the secondary runway after the plane from Abu Dhabi  got stuck in the middle of the runway, an airport official said. The incident took place  at around 7 pm. The aircraft had 196 passengers and 13 crew members on board, the official said. A comment from Etihad Airways is awaited. The Mumbai airport has a unique layout with two runways -- the main runway and a secondary one - intersecting each other. "Runway 14-32 (the secondary one) was in use as runway 09-27 (the main one) was taken over for inspection as Etihad Airways flight EY 204 had a tyre deflated after arrival on the main runway," the official said.

IT'S BEEN MORE  than three years since Malasiyan Airlines Flight 370 vanished, and after spending $150 million and scouring a huge chunk of the Indian Ocean, the international search effort has turned up just a few scraps of metal. It now seems likely investigators will never find the bulk of the wreckage nor the Boeing 777's black boxes, and as a result will never really know why it went down, or how to prevent it happening again. Airbus says it has a solution: deployable flight data recorders. On large planes that frequently fly over water or remote areas, the European aircraft manufacturer will install a second, redundant black box near the rear of the fuselage, with a mechanical ejection system. If the plane crashes into the ocean, the recorder will pop out to safety, floating and pinging away with an emergency locator transmitter, to help rescue teams find it and its valuable testimony about what went wrong. The ejection function is just one feature of Airb...

IN HER DREAMS ,  Xiaoxiao Xu flies as birds do, riding the wind on outstretched arms, her body light and free. She shares this recurring fantasy with the self-taught aviation enthusiasts who fill her delightful book,  Aeronautics in the Backyard . The eight men she photographed have little to no formal training in aeronautics. They are farmers, barbers, and carpenters with nothing more than a deep love of flight and a knack for cobbling together airplanes and gyrocopters. Most learned what they know from books and magazines, and happily pour time and money into contraptions that may not actually fly. And not one of them minds at all if people find them odd. "The thing I like the most about the aeronauts is that they dare to be different,” Xu says. “They don’t care about the risks, the chance of failure, or what other think about them. They have a free mind whether or not their planes succeed in lifting off.” These dedicated aeronauts—or nuts—hunt down parts ...

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