Spice Jet may have operated a demonstration seaplane flight in city on 09dec, but there's still a long way to go before this mode of transport turns popular in the country.
For one, there is plethora of work to do and hurdles to cross. Among them are formulating regulations on water-to-air transport, deciding whether seaplane operations will come under the shipping and water resources ministry or the civil aviation ministry, developing manpower and infrastructure to train pilots for these amphibious aircraft, having seaplane maintenance and repair organizations, identifying markets and studying the viability of such operations.
But on 9dec, after SpiceJet and Japan's Setouchi Holdings secured dozens of permissions from different government bodies to carry out a demonstration to showcase the seaplane to stakeholders, media and government officials, they ran into another hurdle poor weather.
The demonstration flight, operated by the ten-seater Kodiak Quest 1000 seaplane, was to land in the shallow waters near Girgaum Chowpatty around 1.30pm.
But poor visibility forced the pilot to stay put at the Mumbai airport till about 3pm, leaving minister of shipping and water resources, river development Nitin Gadkari; minister of civil aviation Ashok Gajapati Raju, SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh, and other officials waiting for 90 minutes before the seaplane landed around 3.10pm.
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