In December, IndiGo will take delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR — a single-aisle jet with the stamina to fly up to 11 hours nonstop. Just weeks later, in January, the aircraft will debut on a symbolic new route: nonstop…
India’s budget airline SpiceJet has once again found itself in turbulence, with governance questions, operational mishaps, and mounting losses clouding its future . The company’s 2024-25 annual report, released this month, disclosed that chairman and managing director Ajay Singh had…
With more Indians taking to the skies, the country’s airport sector is booming — and the regulator is moving to define clear customer-service standards and link them directly to airport tariffs. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), which oversees India’s…
One of the promoters of IndiGo—the world’s fourth most valuable airline by market capitalization—and the former chairman of Southwest Airlines, Rakesh Gangwal , has reaped around $5 billion from IndiGo stake sales so far, selling nearly 37% of his holding…
Indian aviation is unusual globally: one airline posts nearly a billion dollars in profit, while most of the rest together lose more than one and a half times that in the same fiscal year. We have been watching this conundrum…
At first glance, Air India dropping its Washington service and IndiGo preparing to return to China may look like fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden turn against India. Geopolitics is certainly in play, but these shifts also reflect the…