The low fares will come with a discernible sea-change in service quality and minus the luxury which comes as an essential part of any long-haul travel
IndiGo and other airlines have said they are improving their staff training, looking at better ways of communication and customer awareness on operational matters.
It is likely the airports - Chennai, Kolkata, Kochi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Guwahati - will be bid out for 30 years and the tariffs will be fixed upfront.
The IPL uses this system for players' auction.
Corporate ministry documents show that the Siva's firm kept taking loans from public sector banks like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank which gradually turned to bad loans.
Aditya Ghosh, with no prior aviation background or MBA degree, managed not only to become the CEO of an airline but even piloted it to the top with almost half of the market.
Air India buyer has to take over interest-bearing debt of Rs 16,500 crore a large portion of which is aircraft related, meaning they are backed by aircraft value
Government officials say a shareholding structure has been mandated to discourage non-serious bidders from accessing Air India's data room
The next step is the charter, which aims to safeguard consumer rights and address criticism about the government not doing enough for passengers.
This is a setback for the divestment process of Air India as no other Indian airline has the capability to fund the process
According to preliminary information memorandum, Air India's new owner will be asked to list the company in some time
The government is betting on the fact that it will be conducive for the new owner to give voluntary retirement scheme
If the government is asking a maximum price for Air India but asks to keep old personnel, it will not match.
'We are making a transition from governance to campaign mode.' 'The speed of execution is picking up,' says Union Minister Jayant Sinha.
Grounded Indian planes will be up in air by end of April says company president
Government to ask airlines to educate flyers. 'It will be an exhaustive charter which will tell the passenger about all their rights, like whether they are eligible for a refund when there is a delay in flight, what to do in case of a flight delay and other in-flight etiquette.'
I&B Ministry, Prasar Bharati are in tussle over ministry's directives, reports Shreya Jai and Arindam Majumder.
In contrast to its global peers, a lion's share of Delhi airport's growth came from domestic flyers, which, at 46.6 million, makes up for 73 per cent of the total number of passengers.
Modi's 'UDAN' project faces fund crunch as too many airlines have come on board
Government believes privatisation would increase the airline's efficiency and make it profitable, enriching the value of the remaining stake with it.
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