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MOST INDIAN GRADUATES ARE NOT UP TO THE MARK SAYS DEPARTING HEAD OF INDIA'S SPACE AGENCY – BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS A WORLD TREND.

By David Todd, Senior Space Analyst

G Madhavan Nair the outgoing head of India’s space agency - the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has complained about the quality of job seeking graduates coming out of India’s universities. Nair has specifically noted that most of the graduates are being churned out of India’s universities are alright for basic clerical duties but not good enough to pass ISRO’s entrance examinations for engineers and technologists. Nair emphasised that India’s universities should concentrate on quality rather than quantity. Read More

POSTCARD FROM CROATIA

By Tony Brooks, Senior Aviation Analyst

As the ISTAT 737 Express left London for the Dubrovnik European Conference one paused for thought as to what would happen if the aircraft became a Paul Hayes Total Loss statistic with nearly 50% of the conference onboard. Thought nearly became reality when Captain McDonald was forced to circle the Croatian Airfield for what seemed an eternity to let the bad weather shift on to neighboring Bulgaria. Read More

NOTES FROM A SMALL (WALLED) CITY – OBSERVATIONS FROM THIS YEAR’S ISTAT 16TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE

By Adam Samways, Relationship Manager

The conference got off to a cracking start (literally) with some of the most spectacular thunderstorms the Dalmatian coast has seen recently. Over a month of drought was brought to a close yesterday evening as we enjoyed catching up with acquaintances and colleagues, old and new, at the opening reception. The turnout was so healthy that there were at least 4 incidents involving trays with glasses on that I counted. This was testimony to the limited room available for manoeuvre; such was the amount of delegates in attendance. Crashes (both natural and man-made) heralded the start of proceedings. Read More

MIDDLE EAST PERSPECTIVES

By Lance Hooks, Business Development Manager

Air Finance Journal’s Middle East and Africa Airfinance Conference was a useful opportunity to gauge the mood within the region – although frankly the representation from Africa was limited to a handful of airlines and 1 bank. Some might say this kind of ratio mirrors the general debt chasing situation pretty well. Read More

OBSERVATIONS AROUND THE FREIGHTER MARKETR

By Jake Reppert, Aviation Analyst , Ascend USA

With the Cargo Facts Symposium in Seattle just around the corner I thought it would be appropriate to share a bit of ad-hoc analysis I’ve been looking at around the freighter market. In reaction to the current downturn (and off the back of the widely discussed theory that freight recovers ahead of passenger markets) and the reported softening in demand contraction in both the passenger and freighter market, one of the items we’ve been looking at has been the freighter market and how it compares to the passenger market. Read More