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Air travellers can thank the weather gods for not letting the fog envelop the country’s airports, especially Delhi airport, which is the most affected year after year.

The Delhi airport has been bearing the brunt despite being equipped with Category (CAT) IIIB instrument landing system, which is meant to facilitate aircraft landing and take-off in low visibility.

The reasons are the airlines are not investing enough either in training their pilots to fly in fog or upgrading their aircraft for CAT II, CAT IIIA and CAT IIIB landing systems.

There is pure – and cold – business sense behind it. The loss suffered owing to cancellation and rescheduling of flights every winter – including arranging accommodation of passengers in certain cases – is much less than the expenditure on training.

“The loss incurred on cancelling a two-and-a-half-hour flight due to fog is at Rs 1.87 lakh to Rs 2 lakh,” said an airline executive.

But the cost of fitting an aircraft with CAT IIIA and CAT IIIB equipment would cost an airline anywhere between Rs 46 to Rs 55 crore. In addition, Rs 7 lakh to Rs 9 lakh has to be spent on training a pilot. Then there are refresher courses every six months.

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I think that though this might make economic sense, it is unfair for passengers.

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Air Deccan to follow DGCA fog guidelines only partially


New Delhi, Dec 12 (UNI)


Taking exception to the norms by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on measures to overcome fog related problems, low-cost carrier Air Deccan today said it would only partially follow the instructions.


 ‘‘We will provide cookies and water if a flight has been delayed by four hours. We do not intend to provide accomodation to the passengers of cancelled flights if it has not taken off,’’ Air Deccan Chief Operating Warwick Brady told reporters here.


 Announcing the airline’s plans for overcoming fog-related problems, he said Air Deccan has increased number of staff at Delhi Airport for customer support and has also tied up with Cafe Coffe Day to provide beverages.


 Recently, DGCA had issued guidelines to all airlines to provide food and beverages to delayed passengers and accomodation to passengers of cancelled flights, while also asking them to consider rescheduling of flights.


 Brady said it was not possible for a low-cost carrier like Air Deccan to provide hotel accomodation and transport to all the passengers.


 ‘‘We will provide accomodation only to those passengers whose flight had been diverted and could not reach their destination,’’ he said, adding there was no plans by the carrier to extend such facilities to those whose flights have not taken off.


 ‘‘At the most we will offer information to those passengers on the availability of hotels and guest houses. We will assist them in finding one,’’ he said. 



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IA flights only one on time
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IA flights only one on time
Delhi, Dec. 12 (UNI)

An Indian Airlines to Banglore took off using CAT III-A instrument landing system, while a Hyderabad-Delhi flight of the domestic carrier landed using the CAT III-B equipment which can operate in near-zero visibility conditions.

Only one runway was operated during the period, airport sources said. The flight to Bangalore was, however, delayed because of three private airlines aircraft without the landing capability system blocking the runway.

IA's flights are the only one on time since the fog season started.
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I was on this flight to Delhi and it was one of the best landings I've ever been in. It was operated by Capt. Ron Nagar (Director-Training, Indian Airlines). I've also clicked a few pictures of the aircrafts around the bay we were parked at, will post them shortly in the Av Photography section. The aircraft used was VT-EYJ, it took off from HYD and landed in DEL dot ontime.

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CAT IIIB ldg is indeed quite complicated... i can remember dad telling me how the best pilots of BOM who were recently trained for A319 were preparing before an automated ldg.


Most of them did it in the following way:



  • Prepare the aircraft for an automated ldg -includes selection of rwy and other settings

  • When ldg is cleared, start the automated ldg process

  • Keep your hands over the joystick when aircraft comes as low as 500 feet above rwy

  • Get ready when aircraft drops to 300 feet

  • At 100 feet cancel the automated ldg and take over manually.

At just 100 feet over most of the times the rwy was visible so most pilots took over at that time when most of the crucial visibility requirements were over- spotting the rwy and alligning.


In very rare cases they allowed the aircraft to touch down and apply brakes on its own and they just use thrust reversers.


Even the best pilots felt the heat!!! But now effective training has given more confidence to the pilots



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Training is the key.BTW its reffered to as Sidestick on the A319 not Joystick.


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We call it the 'woofy'


Push the dooda(Throttle), pull the woofy and goofy goes up



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HAWK21M wrote:


Training is the key.BTW its reffered to as Sidestick on the A319 not Joystick.


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Oh yes right... thank you for the correction


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Reliance MF picks up 3.5% in Air Deccan

Reliance Vision, a mutual fund scheme under the Reliance Mutual Fund umbrella, has acquired a 3.5% stake in Air Deccan. A Reliance Capital spokesperson said the stake has been acquired over the past few months purely as a mutual fund play, one amongst many in the mutual fund portfolio.

Commenting on the group’s plan to pick up a strategic stake in the airline, he said the company has no plans to enter the aviation business.

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pretty straight forward.  It is like any other investment a mutual fund company makes.  At max it shows Reliance's confidence in AD, but then they can always pull out if they see it going red.
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Oman Air, three new routes in 2007

Oman Air will start flights between Muscat and Lucknow and Jaipur in June, said CEO Ziad bin Karim Al Haremi. He said the carrier would get two Boeing 737-800s next year.

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Port Blair-bound air passengers stranded in Kolkata
Kolkata, Dec 14 (UNI)
Passengers of early morning flights to Port Blair were stranded at the airport here today after Indian, Deccan and Sahara airlines cancelled flights because of the general strike called by Left trade unions.
 An Indian spokesman said around 80 passengers, who arrived at the NSC Bose International Airport last night, might have booked tickets through travel agents who failed to tell them about the cancellation of flights.
 Indian is planning an additional flight to Port Blair tomorrow to accommodate the stranded passengers, he said.
 ‘‘We (Indian) have arranged lunches and dinners for our 15 to 20 stranded Port Blair-bound passengers and gave them snacks and water bottles,’’ he said.
 Airports Authority of India (AAI) Director V K Monga said authorities of Indian and Sahara airlines had come to the aid of the stranded passengers.
 Some of the passengers were accommodated for the day in the AAI guesthouse near the airport. Passengers also praised the services of Indian and Sahara while severely criticising Deccan and Jet 
 Port Blair-bound flights, which were to take off at around 5.30 am, were cancelled yesterday. All domestic airlines also cancelled their flights to and from Kolkata for the day due to the 24-hour strike. 



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Airlines keen to scale Great Wall
Domestic airlines are keen to bring China into their network as the latter is set to become the country’s top trade partner in the coming years. While Jet Airways and Air Sahara are planning new services, Air-India is set to ramp up its services to China.

Jet Airways Chief Executive Officer Wolfgang Prock-Schauer said, “Flight to San Francisco via Shanghai is likely to start in October 2007. We will be deploying widebodied aircraft in this potential route”.

Air Sahara has secured approval for Sino-Indian operations. The airline will connect Delhi with Guangzhou.

A senior Air-India executive said the airline is connecting to Shanghai four day a week adding “we will be starting direct service to Beijing once we take new Boeing family aircraft.”


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Who will rule the skies tomorrow?


Praveena Sharma
Friday, December 15, 2006  23:19 IST


IndiGo will be a major player, while Jet will fall to the fifth position, says a JP Morgan report.
 
BANGALORE: As airlines get embroiled in a brutal war on the price and capacity fronts, the aviation landscape could well change drastically, going forward. Smaller players could push bigger players down the ladder to take their position. This is what emerges from broking house JP Morgan’s crystal ball gazing into future.
 
Based on aircraft orders, JP Morgan’s equity research team has computed the market share (in terms of seat capacity) of airlines on completion of (plane) delivery, which varies for each one of them. 


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Air Deccan to introduce more flights to Rajasthan
Jaipur, Dec 15 (UNI)
Air Deccan today announced it would introduce flights from Bangalore to Jaipur and Jodhpur via Delhi from March 2007 at fares ranging between Rs 4000 to Rs 6000.
 This was disclosed by Air Deccan Managing Director Captain G R Gopinath who arrived here on an inaugural flight from Bangalore via Mumbai with Infosys Technologies Chief Mentor N R Narayan Murthy.
 Air Deccan had a market share of 21.2 per cent as on June 2006 and would become the largest network in the country covering 61 airports by operating 300 flights a day, he said.
 The airlines had a turnover of Rs 1352 crore in the last financial year and its business is likely to grow to Rs 2000 crore by March next year, Gopinath said.



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