New Delhi: IndiGo, India’s largest airline by market share, is looking at real competition for the first time. ByeImminent acquisition of Air India and AI Express. The low-cost carrier is making inflight comfortable bookings on its flights for the first time as passengers frequently complained about this front on its longest pre-pandemic route – Delhi-Istanbul.
“I see them as fierce competition but I welcome them,” he said. It’s a matter of wisdom. I think they (Tata-owned AI) will become more financially responsible. Being a big player funded by taxpayers is not fair competition for us,” IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said at the CAPA Center for Aviation event on Wednesday.
Another Ultra LCC until next summer – Akaka Air – which is promoted by billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and backed by aviation giants. Vinay Dubey And Aditya Ghosh will take to the sky. In the CAPA programme, Dutta said that the new entrant will take 2-3 years to scale up the operations, and hence will be less of a threat from a competition point of view than Tata Airlines in the immediate future.
As Tata will use AI’s extensive long-distance international network to its advantage, IndiGo realizes that its product offering on medium flight travel needs to be slightly more comfortable than the existing slimline seats. At the CAPA event, Dutta said the airline is looking at better seating through better cushioning on some of its aircraft.
Tata will now have four airlines: two low-cost AirAsia India and AI Express and several full-service AI and Vistara. Amalgamating these four – in fact, five as the erstwhile AI and Indian Airlines were merged in 2007, but the crease remains – will be a challenge for AI. Singapore Airlines, a 49 per cent stakeholder in Vistara, is yet to join Tata’s AI bandwagon. The salt-to-software conglomerate has the potential to be a low-cost and full-service airline.
While Tata’s challenges in reviving AI are formidable, IndiGo is facing a renewed legal battle between its co-founders/promoters – Rahul Bhatia and Mr. Rakesh Gangwal | At a time when the big blue of Indian skies is facing the prospect of a real challenge from any other Indian carrier for the first time.
IndiGo, which controls about 60% of the domestic market share, plans to expand its international footprint by introducing destinations in the seven-hour range that it can fly nonstop to the Airbus A320 Neo family of aircraft.
“I see them as fierce competition but I welcome them,” he said. It’s a matter of wisdom. I think they (Tata-owned AI) will become more financially responsible. Being a big player funded by taxpayers is not fair competition for us,” IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said at the CAPA Center for Aviation event on Wednesday.
Another Ultra LCC until next summer – Akaka Air – which is promoted by billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and backed by aviation giants. Vinay Dubey And Aditya Ghosh will take to the sky. In the CAPA programme, Dutta said that the new entrant will take 2-3 years to scale up the operations, and hence will be less of a threat from a competition point of view than Tata Airlines in the immediate future.
As Tata will use AI’s extensive long-distance international network to its advantage, IndiGo realizes that its product offering on medium flight travel needs to be slightly more comfortable than the existing slimline seats. At the CAPA event, Dutta said the airline is looking at better seating through better cushioning on some of its aircraft.
Tata will now have four airlines: two low-cost AirAsia India and AI Express and several full-service AI and Vistara. Amalgamating these four – in fact, five as the erstwhile AI and Indian Airlines were merged in 2007, but the crease remains – will be a challenge for AI. Singapore Airlines, a 49 per cent stakeholder in Vistara, is yet to join Tata’s AI bandwagon. The salt-to-software conglomerate has the potential to be a low-cost and full-service airline.
While Tata’s challenges in reviving AI are formidable, IndiGo is facing a renewed legal battle between its co-founders/promoters – Rahul Bhatia and Mr. Rakesh Gangwal | At a time when the big blue of Indian skies is facing the prospect of a real challenge from any other Indian carrier for the first time.
IndiGo, which controls about 60% of the domestic market share, plans to expand its international footprint by introducing destinations in the seven-hour range that it can fly nonstop to the Airbus A320 Neo family of aircraft.
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