But its sales pitch will remain muted till India opens up more seats on the route
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.
By 2025, most of India's large cities would require a second airport, and Mumbai may need a third airport by 2030.
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.
The government is keeping its options open.
Ninety years later, BA counts the country as its second-biggest overseas market after the US.
Air India must tighten costs to comes out of the red or it wil perish in no time, says experts.
The national carrier's market share has declined from a near-monopoly to 16.6 per cent as of September 2014.
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.
This was good enough for Fernandes to hire Chandilya to lead his India business.
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