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IndiGo Meltdown: India must have at least five airlines with 100 aircraft each to avoid such crises, says aviation ministerIndia's Civil Aviation Minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu has highlighted the urgent need for at least five airlines, each with about 100 aircraft...
India’s aviation crisis is all about too big to tameRecent flight cancellations by IndiGo have exposed India's aviation market issues. Leaving a large market to one airline created problems. ...
IndiGo: How India’s top airline unraveled in quest for higher profitIndiGo faced a major crisis after a tech glitch and new pilot rest rules caused thousands of flight cancellations. Passengers were stranded...
Delta’s AI fare strategy: Cheaper flights or high-tech price hikes?Delta Air Lines is rolling out AI-based pricing on domestic routes, currently covering 3 per cent of tickets with plans to expand to 20 per...
Pahalgam terror attack triggers airline surge pricing: Why India needs regulation to curb crisis profiteeringFollowing the Pahalgam attack, Srinagar flight prices surged. This raised concerns about unfair pricing. The DGCA intervened, but many trav...
Vistara's last flight: Why Indian aviation remains a two-plane race?India's aviation sector, despite booming growth and government investment, is grappling with a duopoly. Two major airlines control over 90%...
Hope airfares come to right sweet spot: Vistara CEO Vinod KannanWhile voicing concerns over irrational prices, Vistara's CEO Vinod Kannan said that fares in 2023 were even lower than in 2022 due to seaso...
What is 'skiplagging' or 'hidden-city travel' and why is it so contentious?Though it is not illegal, the practice is strictly prohibited by airlines in their contracts of carriage. And carriers have shown an errati...
India has one of the best airfare regimes; there should be no 'gouging': Akasa Air CEOAkasa Air CEO Vinay Dube's comments come against the backdrop of concerns about a steep rise in airfares in certain routes amid capacity re...
Is 'greedflation' rewriting economics, or do old rules still apply?A pandemic, a trade war, a land war, huge government spending and a global economy that has become vastly more integrated might be too comp...
Oxygen shortage in India sparks hunt for $1,000 machinesWhen healthcare facilities are running short of oxygen tanks and beds, the portable machine is increasingly becoming a line of defense for ...
Vande Bharat fares cut for US, CanadaA Toronto-Delhi economy ticket is listed at ₹75,321 on the Air India mobile application, compared with ₹1.37 lakh in June. India stopped al...
Why weak EPS growth for India Inc is not a bad thing after allIndian stocks have seen an EPIC re-rating over the past decade.
New rules to take off soon! Ticket cancellation charges cannot exceed base fares, DGCA says to airlinesThe need for such a system was felt after air fares skyrocketed during the Chennai floods last year and the Jat agitation in Haryana in Feb...
Importance of flash sales: E-tailers face challenge of ensuring that disloyal consumers come backFlash sale typifies both the promise and peril posed by such sales push for India’s fast growing e-commerce companies such as Flipkart.
- Airlines brace as profits crash land
The Indian airline industry is pulling out its survival kit to deal with mounting losses.