Carrier in denial, even as Paramount looks for a buy.
Carriers like Indian, Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines and Paramount Airways, apart from a host of start-up airlines, are sewing up deals to acquire 50-70 seater aircraft for less congested routes.
Low cost scheduled airline Paramount Airways will take to the skies in August and operate to all the secondary cities across the country, its M Thiagarajan managing director said.
Paramount Airways and Club One Air make different promises. Will they fly the long distance?
Paramount Airways will introduce two daily flights between Chennai-Hyderabad and Chennai-Bangalore starting April 19.
For Jet's revival, Mr Jalan should be on the scene long enough for everyone to get to know him, appreciate his skills, and not vanish into thin air within a matter of months or even weeks, observes Anjuli Bhargava.
'Industry observers are certain the next attempt will succeed even if they have to browbeat someone into buying as the government has put its might behind it,' predicts Anjuli Bhargava.
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.
Air Carnival can make quick progress by stepping into the space that SpiceJet has left empty.
The only two truly successful private airlines in India - Jet Airways and IndiGo - have been set up and run by people who knew the ins and outs of the trade well before they took to the skies.