Indian aviation
The news about air travel in India has been frustrating to read and watch. The Indigo meltdown may have passed its worst, but the impact still reverberates. The Indigo brand damage is severe.
To help non-Indians grasp the scale of the problem, we are sharing our model of Indian domestic air travel data. To help readers understand how to use it, here are a few notes.
- Indigo’s market share gives it tremendous critical mass. Its operational failure was bound to cause nationwide chaos.
- The other Indian airlines are not big enough to absorb such chaos and move everyone who was stuck. In the US, for example, several near-equal-sized airlines help the system adjust when one airline collapses, e.g., Southwest Airlines two winters ago.
- India’s systemwide load factors are already over 80%. That means almost no excess margin to move the passengers stuck by Indigo’s operational collapse.
- DGCA also has a lot to answer for. Nothing stated here is new to them. DGCA knew precisely what the risks were of pushing Indigo into chaos.
- There’s a lot of blame to go around—enough for everyone in government and industry. The key question is who will own this crisis, and how will it be prevented from happening again?
Using the Model
- There are five pages. When there are no menus, selecting any data point in a table or chart highlights that data point.
- Page one is highly interactive. Clicking on (say) 2025 opens up the chart to show months. You can also use the airline menu to drill down even more. In each of the charts, at the top right corner, select month rather than year for that chart to also show months.
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