Emerging Markets

India has the second largest population in the world (1.15 billion) and is projected to overtake China as the largest by 2030. Its per capita income has doubled in the last 10 years, it has a poor infrastructure with an appalling road system, (in Mumbai, for example, the traffic is so bad that a 10 mile journey can take 2 hours,) elderly trains, with basic facilities, that run late and have frequent incidents, and an emerging but somewhat troubled airline industry. Add to this, the fact that some 70% of the population still live in villages and at some considerable distance from major trauma hospitals, and that the country has frequent flooding, land slides, earthquakes and other major disasters and it becomes clear this is a country where helicopters are vital...