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January 20, 2006 at 7:49 am in reply to: Jet buys Sahara #566265

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Some media says no LCC. Some say everything will be merged under a single brand.

Depends, if 9W goes ahead with there plan to form an alliance with Air Deccan, India’s premiere LCC. If this alliance happens Kingfisher, SpiceJet, Go will face scrutiny in the Indian skies. If the alliance doesent happen then i thin S2 will be converted into a LCC.

January 19, 2006 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Jet buys Sahara #566903

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Yes… S2 bought by 9W for USD %500 million, S2 is pruposed to serve as the LOCO wing of 9W.

January 18, 2006 at 11:35 am in reply to: Live Airbus Webcast order numbers #568089

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I must say this was just another proper business interaction by Airbus, and as Dazza said Leahy’s snipes at Boeing are getting tiresome, but at one point you cannot blame him much as well, its not as if both A and B are being threatened by a C. Everything has to happen between these two players only.

January 16, 2006 at 8:49 am in reply to: 737 v A320 #570598

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If you are a start-up on a small scale, be it the 320 or 737 you willhave to do a 100% investment into the maintanence programme so it wont matter that much. Just depends on the fuel economics and who offers a better price.

January 13, 2006 at 7:06 pm in reply to: Most interesting aircraft you've been on? #573637

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No, i went on it when it came back to Woodford for some heavy maintenance. Would love fly into to Paro though!

I think Paro has one of the best approaches, i have been there twice and its always breath-taking. Not to forget the two go arounds around Everest that are part of the scheduled route of the flight from Delhi. Pity the 146 will be seen no more.

My first flight to Paro was excellent, remember coming back and the 146 parked right next to a BA Concorde in Delhi, magical. 🙂

January 13, 2006 at 8:36 am in reply to: Boeing bids for 50 A-I aircraft #574381

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Yup…AI are getting the Boeing’s. 😀

January 12, 2006 at 9:25 am in reply to: Most interesting aircraft you've been on? #575766

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I have been on a few interesting aircraft at work.

Druk Air 146-100

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Interesting…did you goto Bhutan? 🙂

January 12, 2006 at 9:20 am in reply to: Jet buys Sahara #575767

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9W board meets on 30th of this month so i dont think they will accept anything in the media before that.

January 11, 2006 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Most interesting aircraft you've been on? #577204

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IL 62 and Do 228 probably. 🙂

January 11, 2006 at 2:25 pm in reply to: Your Top 3 Airlines… and why? #577205

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Third Place: Jet Airways:- Not many of you would have tried this brand, but from the good amount of airlines i have tried this Indian carrier stands tall than most of them. They offer a world class cabin crew and a world class service. The warmth and the ambience they create on there relatively new fleet is astounding.

Second Place: SAS:- Probably an unlikely name in most peoples list but this airline offers a great service. I have not travelled with them for some time now but when i used to (on there CPH-DEL service), it used to be fantastic 7 hours to Europe.

First Place: Singapore Airlines:- My favourite airline, and it has been since i travelled with them back in 1999. Great fleet, comfortable seats (most comfortable cattle class i have experienced) and fine in-flight experience. Absolutely great.

January 11, 2006 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Jet buys Sahara #577208

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Interesting info. Cheers Kabir 🙂

Personally, I think this massive rush for aircraft and general expansion can only lead to tears.
I think there will soon be a bunch of airlines going under and a lot of Airbuses sitting around flooding the secondhand market (Based purely on the fact that all the new airlines springing up in india are ordering Airbuses by the bucket load).

What do you think Kabir?

Well, i think the marketis there to fill the bucket loads of A320s that we seem to be getting. But what needs to be seen is whether the government provides the infrastructure to the airlines and the passengers. If in the end it turns out to be as chaotic as the Indian Railway system i dont see the boom being much of a boom.

Anyway latest reports say the Jet-Sahara deal is off fornow anyway. As i said before there market value is a big issue, Jet apparently does not think the airline is more than worth of what they are offering.

Kingfisher was also interested in the beginning, mainly because of the avilability of the international routes. But seeing how they have a huge Airbus order to tend to first it was wise of them not to invest in Air Sahara.

January 11, 2006 at 10:13 am in reply to: Jet buys Sahara #577452

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Interesting move.

I beleive Sahara were in a little spot of trouble with their Pilots being poached by the glut if start up airlines in India.

All this expansion and start up reminds me of the .com bubble. Lots of new start companies and established companies growing quickly off of the internet.

That bubble burst, will this one?

Dont mind if i correct some details… 😀 … Air Sahara was in a soup mainly because its parent company, Sahara Corp. was batteling huge losses. The Sahara group’s main source if revenue was from chits, or lottery tickets as you might call it. They did these not in metros but in small towns and cities, and of course as we see they made a massive industry out of it. Now India’s new government has decided to post a ban of more than 10% investment from money gained by activities like the lotto. Sahara used to put 95% of its revenues in its other projects like Air Sahara, Sahara TV, Sahara Housing etc.

This was the main crutch on why they failed, and continue there slow sink to the bottom.

Sahara if bought by Jet, s it is still not official the price that we might see of the purchase is roughly $560 million, atleast 400 million dollars less than the projected market price. Shows how desperate Sahara was to sell the airline.

Now Jet has strengthened its position in the crowded Indian aviatio sector. Jet is also in talks with India’s premiere loco, Air Deccan for an alliance. If this happens we might see alot of new airlines fold in not a very long time.

January 8, 2006 at 1:30 pm in reply to: Austrian 'The Vienna Philharmonic' Scheme #580317

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Looks brilliant. I saw Zubin Mehta, the famous conductor recently, great stuff.

January 7, 2006 at 9:57 am in reply to: Boeing Logs 1,002 Orders in 2005 #581565

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Good year for Boeing!

January 5, 2006 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Sensationalism can harm the industry? #584012

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I’m not sure I agree completely. Genuine near misses in the UK are investigated, and consequently the reports should be available online at the AAIB. Assuming that the Indian press has not exagerated the figures then I think the travelling public has a right to know about increases in such incidents, and general trends in safety. It is often public pressure and reaction to such incidents which actually prompts action.

Without wanting to cause offence or upset, India’s air transport infrastructure is bursting at the seams, at a time when demand is growing, along with deregulation stimulating demand still further. The fact that the press have highlighted that there are safety implications should not be covered up, because otherwise it will take an actual accident to highlight the problems…often referred to as the ‘Tombstone Imperitive’, i.e. things only get done once an accident has happened.

The aviation press regulalry seems to be discussing India, and the fact that the government is aware they need to spend money on infrastructure and improving ATC, so why should the travelling Indian population not also be made aware of the problems. If it does harm the industry financially then the airlines themselves are liekly to put pressure on the government to act, because at the end of the day money talks.

Geniun news can also be sensatonalised, dont you think? I agree any near misses MUST be investigated and brought in front of the public eye. But in many cases paranoia is created unnecesserily. India needs a massive infrastructure upgradation, recently to land in fog Delhi installed CAT III LB system to assist pilots in landing even when visibility is 100 meters. This system was first installed in 2000 and has been consistently mal-functioning ever since (it was upgraded last year and still does not perform 100%) and for all this the airlines are blamed by the media for not training there pilots for this. The other side of the story is some airlines refuse to train pilots for foggy coditions as they argue that these conditions last only 20 days and the price of training pilots is alot.

So two valid stories, but one being blamed. Thats what causes paranoia in my opinion which is harmful for the industry. I never said they should support a cover up, ost of the upgradation is to be done by the government, where beurocracy plays a major role. But using unnnecesery phrases like “you might get hurt” etc. etc. by the media will just cause unnecesery turmoil. Remember in India atleast, there have been more first time travelers than ever before.
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