Dubai-based Indian billionaire Ravi Pillai, the Chairman of industrial development conglomerate RP Group, has bought an Airbus H145 helicopter costing ₹100 crore. The helicopter was delivered by Airbus in Kovalam and took its inaugural flight from Kovalam to The Raviz Ashtamudi. The helicopter is capable of landing and takeoff from even high altitudes of 20,000 feet above sea level.