According to a top executive, Air India aims to take on Middle Eastern giants like Emirates and Qatar Airways and double its share of international transit traffic over the next three years.
“We’ve already increased our traffic to the west of India, but now need to enhance connectivity to the east, especially to Southeast Asia, to capture more international-to-international (I2I) traffic,” Air India’s chief commercial officer Nipun Aggarwal said in a media roundtable last week.