Capt G R Gopinath, who sold the low-cost carrier Air Deccan in 2007 to Kingfisher Airlines, has incubated a new project: Deccan Cargo & Express Logistics. Despite losing the Lok Sabha election, where he hoped to represent Bangalore in the lower house of Parliament, he is upbeat about his recently launched air cargo business. In a freewheeling interview with ET, Deccan Cargo & Express Logistics CMD Capt Gopinath explains why his cargo business will revolutionise the sector and what the new government could do to alter the aviation scenario.
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Interview - Vijay Mallya, Kingfisher Airlines
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Interview - Executive Director, Mr Ankur Bhatia, Bird Air
Monday, August 4th, 2008Interview - Mr Raghu Menon, Chairman and Managing Director of Air India
Monday, May 5th, 2008Interview - Siddhanta Sharma, MD and CEO, SpiceJet
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007We`re looking at increasing capacity, not pricing
Friday, December 21st, 2007A K Ravi Nedungadi, president and CFO, UB Group, talked to Manisha Singhal about the Deccan Aviation-Kingfisher merger and its benefits for travellers and investors alike.
What is the roadmap to profitability after the merger?
We expect savings of about Rs 300-400 crore annually to accrue because of the synergies achieved due to the merger.
An increase in the revenue through reduction in costs would follow because of the operation of an airline that will have about 600 flights a day.The resultant negotiation power and costs saved in fuel and maintenance will be the added benefits. We hope to break even in the next fiscal.
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Interview Capt Gopinath, Vice Chairman, Kingfisher Airlines
Friday, December 21st, 2007Interview - Air India’s Chairman and Managing Director, Mr V. Thulasidas
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Interview - Zvi Kaplan, Director-General of the Israel Space Agency
Friday, November 16th, 2007In 2008, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch Israel’s scientific instrument called Tel Aviv University Ultra-Violet Experiment (TAUVEX) on board the GSAT-4 from Sriharikota. The Director-General of the Israel Space Agency, Zvi Kaplan, who was in Hyderabad in September to attend the International Astronautical Congress, in an interview, praised the late Dr. Vikram Sarabhai’s vision to use space technology for societal benefits in education, agriculture, telecommunication, etc.
Interview - Siddhanta Sharma, MD and CEO, SpiceJet
Friday, November 16th, 2007Interview - Mr Albert Brunner, Chief Executive Officer, Bangalore International Airport Ltd
Monday, August 27th, 2007Interview - Mr V. Thulasidas, Chairman & Managing Director, Air India
Saturday, July 28th, 2007Interview - Praful Patel, Civil Aviation Minister
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Interview - Praful Patel, Civil Aviation Minister
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Interview: Ricardo Traven, Chief Test Pilot - F/A-18 Programs, Boeing
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Interview - Jean-Luc Establie, Sales Director, ATR
Friday, April 20th, 2007Conversation between Capt Gopinath, Air Deccan & Mr Vijay Mallya, Kingfisher
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Interview - Ron Kuhlmann, Editor-in-Chief of the Unisys aviation publication, Scorecard
Thursday, April 5th, 2007The latest publication about transportation, on www.unisys.com, is on `airline industry cost measurement’. Airlines are a truly global industry, sending, many times each day, its staff and equipment over great distances and multiple borders, begins the report. However, `socio-political realities also constrain their inherent potential and make most airlines not global entities, but rather local companies with a global reach.’ Unlike many other commercial or financial entities, airlines contend with `a mixed bag of legal and regulatory standards that make the entire system considerably more complex than it might otherwise be.’
Interview - M Thiagarajan, managing director of Paramount Airways
Thursday, April 5th, 2007