It is an episode that India’s former national carrier, Air India, has been trying to forget. In the midst of a $3 billion turnaround, hundreds of plane orders, and a major human capital upgrade, a Boeing 787 crash was the…
The low-cost arm of Air India, Air India Express (AIE), has joined the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Launched in 2005, AIE is now an entity that includes Air Asia India and Air India Express. On October 1, last year,…
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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…
IndiGo and Akasa are looking at expanding their international footprint while Air India, the oldest carrier in India, is temporarily looking to scale down its international operations. On Tuesday IndiGo announced that it will start operations from Mumbai to Tbilisi,…