India has 128 airports of which 15 are international airports;
with 8 custom airports with limited international operations,and 25 are civil
enclaves in defense airfields.
Instead of 128 airports, the US has 19750 civil and joint use
airports,heliports and seaplane bases. 14000 are available for civil private
use. Nearly 4000 are paved GA airports open to the public. While scheduled
airlines serves less than 500 airports.
In the United States GA aircrafts fly almost 24 million hours
and carry 166 million passengers annually. Over two third of the hours flown by the GA aircraft are for business purposes and a key point is that GA is the
primary training ground for most commercial airline pilots. So GA clearly is a big contributor towards US economy. It supports 1.2 millions jobs
and over 115 billion dollars is contributed to US economy each year through
this segment alone. And despite of US economy turn down from 2008 till perhaps mid last year, we saw GA manufacturing
and delivering 7.9 billion dollars worth of aircraft in 2010.
India is the ninth biggest aviation market in the world and in
terms of domestic traffic, the fourth largest in the world behind the US, China and Japan and yet India is one of the least penetrated markets in the world even lower than Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nigeria.
[/QUOTE]Now if you pause for a minute and you say we are going to add
upon 1000-1100aircraft in next 8 years we are talking 2020 which means; we are
talking about a 100 aircraft every year. This means that we are talking about
almost 3-4 aircrafts every month; which I can assure you it is not really
happening at the moment.
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http://www.acp-india.com/Brochure/Se...l_Aviation.pdf
But NEWYEAR is right.There should actually be a shortage of pilots here.
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