It was expected to be a year of substantial profits for IndiGo, a visibly advancing Air India turnaround, a rebounding SpiceJet, and a stronger Akasa Air. Instead, 2025 became the year India’s aviation system ran out of slack. With benign…
Crisis-hit IndiGo remained at the centre of India’s aviation sector in mid-December as its shares fell sharply, the regulator curtailed capacity, and the chief executive, Pieter Elbers, was summoned by the government to explain the disruptions. More than 17,000 IndiGo…
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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…
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,…
India’s youngest airline, Akasa Air, turned three this month with a 30-aircraft fleet and an ambitious plan to expand by 30% annually until 2032. Launched in the depths of the pandemic—when COVID-19 had grounded fleets worldwide—Akasa was a contrarian bet…