Flying schools demand reduction in avgas prices

New Delhi: With airlines getting substantial relief on jet fuel prices, pilot training schools are up in arms against oil companies saying, the prices of avgas, which fuel their twin-seater piston-engined aircraft, are three to four times higher than ATF and are continuously rising.
“We have been writing to the government and the oil companies, but our case has been consistently ignored. While lot of discussion has taken place on ways to reduce aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices, what has been ignored in all these discussions and statistics has been the plight of the flying schools, who use a fuel called ‘100 LL’ (avgas or 100 octane).
This fuel on base price itself is two times or more costlier than ATF,” Uday Punj, Managing Director of Chimes Aviation Academy, told PTI here.
He said Chimes, one of the largest pilot training schools in India, as well as other such institutions had written to various government departments, including the oil companies and Civil Aviation Ministry, to reduce the prices of 100 LL but to no avail.
15/02/09 PTI/The Hindu