Privatisation Is The Only Way To End Indico Airlines Woes

  

                                                                           

                                                         

By Sindhu Bhattacharya Aviation aviation industry in india National carrier  NewsTracker Privatisation  CommentsEmailPrint New Delhi: The history of Air India and its mismanagement by incumbent governments is well known. So are multiple, half-hearted attempts by successive civil aviation ministers to sell it off to a private enterprise. Thus, it came as no surprise when its current master, Ajit Singh, hinted at Air India privatisation over the weekend. With barely six months left for this government, Singh probably thought he could safely stir the privatisation pot with minimum risk to his ministership. He obviously is well aware that his time in office is too short to see any such proposal through. So whats the harm in uttering the ‘P’ word and wait for reactions In less than  Singh gleefully went back on his words after violent reactions from the Left and even from BJP. He said there was no proposal at any level of the government to privatise Air India at present. Well, it is about time this cash starved government began thinking in terms of a proposal because unless Air India is sold off to private enterprise, its days are numbered. Privatisation may not be the only solution to Air India’s woes but at present, it seems to be the only viable one. The most serious attempt at privatisation, which of course went kaput, was in   when two bidders had been shortlisted. The Hindujas were interested in both

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India and Indian Airlines the two carriers which merged later to form the present Air India while the Tata-Singapore Airlines combine was interested in AI. A change of ministers and global uncertainty after  in the US ensured that privsatisation was never seriously pursued. The national carrier is left with little arsenal to compete even in an expanding market. Flickr Now that Tata and SIA are back in the civil aviation market in India, perhaps this is as good a time as any to at least restart the privatisation debate. So why should Air India be sold off? Multiple reasons: 1 Competition will anyway gobble it up: Even six months back, AI was happily declaring how its operational performance was improving and talked of a 

EBIDTA positive (break even at the operational level. But things have changed dramatically since then. The four fold increase in seat entitlements to Jet-Etihad combine kick in by , making some of AI’s overseas routes unviable. Only exceptions would be long haul, non-stop flights to Europe and Americas. As if this was not enough, the government is keen to do away with restrictions on domestic airlines flying abroad. This means the new Tata-Singapore Airlines combine could become a formidable opponent to AI in no time. In short, the national carrier is left with little arsenal to compete even in an expanding market with the might of a well funded Gulf carrier and an equally formidable Tata-SIA. 2 Government support uncertain: The Government may have promised AI  crore in equity support over a decade but with its own finances in doldrums, where is the cash going to come from? Another 

rore is needed for sovereign guarantees for AI’s short terms loans. Already, almost  crore equity support promised in the Budget for FY14 is not coming with the government itself starved for funds and AI may have to raise loans. Anyway, the government cannot be expected to fund AI in perpetuity, a viable solution must be found to its financial woes. The airline carries about  crore in accumulated debt on its books, which includes debt from aircraft purchase, from banks and from sundry debtors. 3) Infrastructure already in place: What could be attractive to a buyer is one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world, maintenance and ground handling infrastructure already in place, considerable pull of the Air India brand and lucrative overseas flying rights already in the airline’s pockets. After the hive off of two subsidiaries —  one for maintenance and repair and another for ground handling — the staff on AI’s books has been halved to just  people. This means manpower to aircraft ratio of just against the industry norm of In fact, now this ratio is even better than domestic aviation industry star, IndiGo! An editorial in the Indian Express says this morning that AI continues to lose money to the tune of crore a day, translating into a total drain of over  . These losses are despite the government infusing crore in the last four years. “How much, then, will the proposed infusion till change the situation at Air India? This is a crisis of credibility as much as of finances and operations.” An AI official told Firstpost that with more of its planes filled, better on-time performance and improvement in other parameters, AI is on its way to profitability. “And is privatisation the only solution per se to save AI? We have seen privatisation has not always helped matters…..we must first decide whether we need a national carrier. But a debate on privatisation is good, it should be encouraged”. We have debated this enough, now is the time to act. Instead of another public debate over whether AI should be privatised or not, it is better to quickly take a decision to do so. There will anyway be problems aplenty even if a decision were to be taken.

workforce, long used to sarkari culture, will need to put in a hard day’s work — something most Air Indians are not used to. Take this example: AI employees were entitled to ridiculous ‘passages’, which means free tickets for extended family members. So sons-in-law,brothers-in-law and even mother-in-law of an AI employee were entitled to free AI tickets. Only last year was this ridiculous allowance scrapped and free passages restricted to the employee’s spouse, dependent children and, at most, dependent parents. Next, lets see who are the most trenchant critics of AI privatisation. The Left parties and affiliated trade unions — but they oppose any and every privatisation whether the PSU is loss making or not. They are best ignored. BJP and its allies are opposing because any major proposal by the ruling UPA must be opposed. Employee unions are opposing because they fear job losses — which private enterprise will tolerate sloth? The question to be asked is not how to tackle this opposition but whether any interested party willing to buy into AI would also be keen to take on all the accumulated losses and massive debt on its books. Instead of worrying about domestic opposition, the government should be thinking of makingattractive enough, financially and otherwise, for a suitor.

                                                                                   

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The father of commercial aviation in India

                                                             

                 

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Hardelot is a beach town in the north of France. It is in the Pas de Calais, a region along the English Channel where the distance to Britain is short and, unlikely as it may seem, this is why it has a link to the development of commercial aviation in India.

Closeness to Britain was why, at the start of the 20th century, a group of investors decided to develop Hardelot as a holiday town for rich British families. One who took up the offer wasn't British, but Indian and Parsi, the businessman RD Tata, cousin of Jamsetji Tata, who bought a house for his French wife and their children, and also became a property developer there. One of the roads in Hardelot would come to be named Avenue des Indes.

Hardelot is also less than 40 km from Sangatte, which is even closer to Britain and the place Louis Bleriot, the French aviator, set off from in the first successful crossing of the channel by plane. That was in 1909, the same time RD Tata came to Hardelot, and the event made a big impression on his five-year-old son Jehangir. When Bleriot bought a neighbouring villa in Hardelot, Jehangir quickly became friends with his son, Louis junior, and both of them would spend much time with Bleriot's planes.

Jehangir, better known as JRD Tata, would later recall the excitement of seeing a plane landing on Hardelot beach for the first time: "It was flown by Adolphe Pegoud, the first man to loop-the-loop. From then on I was hopelessly hooked on aeroplanes and made up my mind that come what may, one day, I would be a pilot." This would happen when he was back in Bombay and India's first flying club was being formed. Twelve days after the launch of the Aero Club of India & Burma, JRD went on his first solo flight and then, on February  he got the first flying licence issued by the club.
                                                     
                                                       

JRD's connection with flying went far deeper than just business. It survived not just the problems of the industry, but also more personal losses. In those early years JRD escaped death in a flying accident at least once, but his younger brother Jimmy was not so lucky. He was a strapping young man, who JRD always said was a better pilot than he was himself, and in  he set out with an Austrian friend to fly from Austria to the UK. While they were flying over the friend's Austrian home he tried to turn and wave to his family, but with two tall men in a tiny plane, the action imbalanced them and sent the plane into a spin and a crash, killing both of them.

Stories like that make JRD's famous first commercial flight of Tata Aviation, which he flew himself on  from Karachi to Bombay, a remarkable example of a businessman putting his own life on the line. JRD's involvement, and the re-enactments he flew in  and  have come to overshadow the commercial aspect of the flight.

It was meant to demonstrate the viability of airmail from London to the subcontinent right down to Ceylon, and Karachi was the starting point as it had an Imperial Airways (the forerunner of today's British Airways) service from the UK. The 45 pounds of mail JRD carried on his flight was immediately taken on by his business partner, the South African-born Nevil Vintcent, on a further flight, with halts on the way at places like Bellary, to end in Madras, from where it immediately set off on the return journey to Karachi, so that the mail could catch the Imperial Airways flight to the UK.

What is also remarkable is how soon this venture started turning a profit. Aviation is a notorious loss-maker, at least in its early years; yet by Tata Aviation had made a slim profit of Frederick Tymms, the director-general of civil aviation in India at that time is quoted as saying, "Scarcely anywhere else in the world was there an air service operating without support from the government." The government had signed the mail contract by then, but that was pretty much all the support Tata Aviation was getting.

Luckily, another source of support had emerged with the maharajas. We are familiar with Air India's moustachioed maharaja, but in the early days of the airline actual maharajas also played a role. An article in The Times of India in   points out that with the Indian government displaying little interest in developing aviation facilities, it had been left to various maharajas to step in: "The aerodrome at Jodhpur is acknowledged to be the best equipped in India and by laying out such an aerodrome and providing facilities for  accommodation, etc the Maharaja has made his capital an important stopping place on the route between Karachi and the East." Another example was the private aerodrome of Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad which was proposed to become the home base of a Madras-Ceylon air service.



                                                       

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Foreign Airlines Don’t Fly Best Planes To India

                             

 Flying the same airlines between two foreign destinations has been a more pleasurable experience than flying from India to a foreign country? It's not just a feeling, but a reality.

Here is the unspoken truth: Foreign airlines don't deploy to India their best aircraft from hubs like Dubai, Singapore, Frankfurt and Brussels. The India-leg of a long-haul route always has planes which have been in service for a few years.


Passengers travelling from the US or Australia perceive a change in quality of amenities and service inside a flight the moment they change over at a hub like Frankfurt, Dubai or Singapore. Says P Usha, who travelled to London recently, "The aircraft from London to Dubai had the best in entertainment, good reading lights, seats and other amenities. Things turned a little drab on the aircraft from Dubai to India. Seats were slightly worn out and plastic fixtures were yellowing due to overuse."

Air Passengers Association of India national president D Sudhakara Reddy echoes the sentiment. "I have experienced this when I flew recently. Every airline is doing this. Our airports do not bother to encourage airlines to bring their best planes on the India-leg of long-haul routes. This may also be because of a lack of load and airlines do not want to use a new and bigger plane for fear of flying with empty seats," said Reddy.

Passengers from India are able to fly on board A380 from Dubai to London. But they do not get the luxury on the UAE-India route. A bigger plane like   that can seat  passengers or a B747 400 that can seat   passengers cannot be flown into Chennai because it may end up blocking the taxiway or runway. Though the Airports Authority of India claims that Chennai airport can handle an A380, sources said that other operations would have to be brought to a halt till the aircraft lands and is brought to the parking bay

Airlines say that seat limitations mentioned in bilateral agreements between India and other countries, shoddy airside infrastructure at many of Indian airports including Chennai and shortage of passengers are the reasons for them not operating new planes to airports in India other than Delhi which is a VIP destination.

A380 and  are fuel efficient and can carry more passengers. However, airlines are also not able to fly them to a few airports in India including Chennai because of bilateral agreements.

"The bilateral agreements signed between India and other countries are designed to protect Air India. The number of seats a foreign airline and an Indian airline can sell on a route is fixed. This prevents airlines from using a high-capacity aircraft," said an airline official.

                                                 

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Indian Regulatory Approval for Etihad’s Investment In Jet Airways

                                               

 Indian regulator approves Jet Airways stake sale to Abu Dhabi’s Etihad
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Etihad Airways remains confident that its US investment deal with Jet Airways is “on a good track” despite facing India’s regulatory hurdles that have repeatedly delayed the ratification of the agreement.

Reports on Tuesday said the Securities and Exchange Board of India had given its nod for the deal after both airlines made revisions to comply with its conditions.

However, regulatory approval is still needed from the competition commission of India and the cabinet committee on economic Affairs.

“We are not there yet, but we are on a good track,” said Peter Baumgartner, Etihad’s chief commercial officer. “There are a couple of final regulatory hurdles but we are confident about the future to complete the deal.”

Etihad in April announced the agreement to acquire aper cent stake in Jet Airways for  It is investing a further in Jet’s frequent flyer programme and  to buy Jet’s six landing slots at Heathrow Airport through a sale-and-leaseback agreement.

India’s foreign investment promotion board gave its approval of the deal in July.

At the start of last month, Etihad extended the deadline for the second time for regulatory clearances for the deal to the end of the month.

Etihad said then that the Indian authorities were expected to approve the deal “imminently”. That deadline lapsed on Monday.

                                                                 

                                Analysts say it is unclear how long it will actually take for the final approvals to come through.

Saj Ahmad, the chief analyst at StrategicAero Research,says the protracted deal approval process is a consequence of India’s complicated bureaucracy.

“It seems that the powers that be in India are happy to make Jet and Etihad wait until the deal is ratified,” Mr Ahmad said. “Etihad’s patience is to be applauded. It’s a surprise they haven’t taken their millions and walked away from this perennial mess that India seems to wallow in.”

 The securities and exchange board of India had to be satisfied that Jet would not relinquish significant control to Etihad before it gave its approval, according to the Press Trust of India.

When all the approvals are given, Etihad would become the first foreign carrier to acquire a stake in an Indian airline after New Delhi in September last year permitted foreign investment of up to 49 per cent in India’s carriers.

Etihad’s investment in Jet is part of its strategy to invest in foreign airlines and expand its global network.

Mr Baumgartner said Etihad was “not closed for future partnerships”.

Etihad said last month it planned to dramatically increase its passenger capacity and flights to India over the coming months, including tripling the capacity on its routes between Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and New Delhi.

                                                                     “The Indian subcontinent is a major growth market … and the deal will give us a strategic partnership,” Mr Baumgartner said.
Etihad is also evaluating orders for a range of aircraft from Boeing and Airbus after Emirates Airline said it was planning an “enormous” contract for 
“We are in discussion with both manufacturers pretty much right across their entire portfolio of aircraft,” Mr Baumgartner said.
Tim Clark,the president of Emirates, said on Tuesday the airline was looking to replace  twin-engine wide-bodies in its fleet.
Etihad was operating   passenger and cargo aircraft in July, including  wide-bodies and 
It has orders for superjumbos and  rival to Boeing’s – as well as 41 smaller Boeing Dreamliners.
Etihad’s fleet is scheduled to increase to planes by


                                           

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AgustaWestland firm on expanding footprint in India

Agusta Westland firm on expanding footprint in India



The Hindu Jackie Callcut, CEO Agusta Westland India Pvt. Ltd., at the Naval and Maritime Expo in Kochi on Monday. Photo: K.K. Mustafah
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The company is undaunted by probe into corruption charges in VVIP copter deal

Unfazed by the probe by the Indian and Italian governments into charges of corruption in the Rs. 3,727-crore contract for 12 AW-101 VVIP helicopters for the Indian Air Force, helicopter major AgustaWestland is keen to expand its footprint in the Indian military and civil aviation markets.

“Notwithstanding the current difficulties, we need to expand our presence in India,” said Jackie Callcut, Chief Executive Officer, AgustaWestland India.

Talking to The Hindu on the sidelines of India’s maiden Naval and Maritime Expo (NAMEXPO-2013) that got under way here on Monday, Ms. Callcut, who insisted the company was in India for a ‘long haul’, said AgustaWestland wished to make a mark in the civil aviation sector through its joint venture with Tata Sons to produce AW119 helicopters in India. “We are bringing more technologies into Indian civil aerospace market,” she said, adding India’s ‘troubled transport sector’ could benefit if the moneyed class made a shift to travel by helicopter.

JV with Tata Sons

Vimal Nagpal, head of business for the company’s India subsidiary, said the JV with Tata Sons was progressing. “We’ve begun to construct the infrastructure, with the long-term plan to shift an assembly line from Philadelphia to Hyderabad,” he said.

On the VVIP chopper controversy, Ms. Callcut said the Indian investigation was largely linked to what was happening in Italy, where the next court hearing was due on October 8. “We welcome investigations, as we don’t have any reason to be ashamed of. Nor do we have anything to hide. We still think we have the best machine ... We’ve heard from Indian Air Force that the three helicopters delivered to them are absolutely the right equipment. The firestorm [that the controversy raked up in the initial days] was not based on facts. The environment is much saner now,” she said, choosing to blame the Comptroller and Auditor General of India  for being ill-informed in its reports.

Rebutting allegations that procurement specifications were altered and trial evaluation was influenced to swing the deal in favour of her company, she said the charges were misplaced. Ms. Callcut had earlier written to CAG citing that the alteration of cabin height requirements of the helicopter hadn’t led to disqualification of any aircraft in the fray.

FDI in defence

She found off-putting the FDI cap in defence, which is  per cent at the moment, and hoped for ‘a bit more liberalisation’. Despite controversies, the company’s AW109 is taking part in the tender for  units of Naval Utility Helicopters. “The bid procedure for down-selection is on,” she said.

Mr. Nagpal claimed that the upgrade of seven AgustaWestland-made Seaking helicopters in service with the Indian Navy under the ‘Recovery’ programme had increased the operational availability of the potent anti-submarine warfare and commando-lift helicopters.

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