Only a 5-year-old airline with 20 planes is allowed to fly abroad.
ATF for domestic carriers has become 11.22 per cent cheaper since October and is expected to see more price cuts in the next three months.
Airbus is now confident of crossing 1,000 net orders (excluding cancellations or conversions from previous orders) in 2014.
IndiGo's passenger load factor, at 67% in July, fell six percentage points from the same month last year.
The $100 billion Tata group conglomerate is a major beneficiary of the decision to open up aviation in India.
The secret behind Singh's success was that he mostly set about undoing all the mistakes made by the Marans, points out Anjuli Bhargava.
The response to the sale has been overwhelming.
The Civil Aviation Ministry is looking to increase air seat entitlement to Dubai by 20%.
The civil aviation ministry appears supportive of SpiceJet because it does not want another airline to fail. The real test now will be the capacity of the airline's chairman, Kalanithi Maran, to raise funds. And he needs to do this quickly.
India's main hubs are bursting at the seams.
Sources in the know confirmed Vistara, the joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, had booked six slots at the airport in New Delhi, adding it was ready to fly once it secured the government's nod.
Vistara was launched on January 9.
Though the Mumbai and Delhi airports still rule the domestic aviation market, the share of the two in overall traffic is falling. In 2006-07, the two airports collectively handled 40.6 per cent of all domestic passengers; in 2012-13, their share fell to 37 per cent.
Vistara is trying to be leaner and meaner, while staying focused on the original brand promise; it aims to be profitable by FY21. Arindam Majumder reports.
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AirAsia's rival airlines in India have kept themselves super-busy in the past few months -- by moving court against the former's launch, adding flights on the routes where AirAsia is operating, and engaging in a price war.
Vistara has poor load factors currently, it needs to bring down fares a bit to improve flight occupancy.
Non-metro routes get 73 per cent of its flyers -- a factor that has earned it double-digit share with only 19 planes.
Stressful work schedules and limited growth opportunities are taking a toll on a large number of senior professionals in airlines.
But the Abu Dhabi-based airline would first bolster its own network with traffic from India before Jet's turnaround.
Airline now financially more stable but still in the doldrums as the operating environment remains tough.
An airport in Noida could lead to higher user fees and diversion of traffic from Delhi, which has huge unused capacity.
Vistara has fine-tuned strategies to tap the elite class and Jet Airways may lose out on market share in times to come.
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