Articles tagged “india”

Aircraft orders, not just passenger numbers, are becoming the clearest measure of how seriously India’s aviation future is being taken.

IndiGo wants to grow beyond its low-cost roots without losing price-sensitive flyers. But, December showed that growth and resilience don’t always move together. What and how it fixes next will matter.

IHCL is acquiring smaller chains to make the most of the hospitality boom in India. But it does not seem interested in overhauling how these chains actually operate as long as their models work.

Europe has been among India's dream destination for a long time, but visa woes have been the biggest obstacles. The FTA now lays ground for processes that could now allow EU to fully unlock India's tourism potential.

As India pushes its aviation hub dream, Air India is doubling down on long haul, a segment where it already has aircraft, traffic rights, and first-mover advantage.

India has the demand, albeit from within, to help tourism meet its potential. All it needs now are the policy reforms that the industry has been seeking for decades.

India’s push to build regional aircraft at home is more about fixing the economics of short-haul flying. If it works, smaller cities could finally see reliable air links that sustain tourism growth beyond the metros.

Ixigo has done much of the heavy lifting in the domestic market. Outbound travel, though, plays by different rules as it needs global supply and boots on the ground. An overseas acquisition makes for a far more realistic entry point.

For India’s largest airline, December wasn't so much about lost passengers as it was about the rising cost of running a complex operation at scale in a heavily regulated, rupee-dependent market.

Akasa Air's decision to include Apple Pay points to a larger picture, one where ease of payments is the differentiating point amid an increasingly competitive ecosystem around organized bookings.