Air India launched flights to Phuket on December 01, 2023. While analyzing the route, I wrote “The timings may not be optimum just yet for a two way connection to its entire European bank, but come next year – additional flights to Phuket or additional flights to Europe will help overcome this challenge. “ The … Continue reading Air India’s Phuket expansion – a case study of balancing connectivity and capacity
High 5 in UP for QP – Akasa Air launches flights to Gorakhpur
Akasa Air - the Mumbai headquartered low cost carrier is launching flights to Gorakhpur starting May 29, 2024. The airline will connect Gorakhpur daily to Bengaluru and Delhi with below timings. QP1880 BLR1115 - 1405GOP QP1883 GOP1920 - 2155BLR QP1882 DEL1655 - 1845GOP QP1881 GOP1445 - 1600DEL This will be the fifth destination in the … Continue reading High 5 in UP for QP – Akasa Air launches flights to Gorakhpur
Weekend Musings: jetBlue of India is here
Edition 44 Sometime in 2018 and again in January 2019, I wrote an article about who would be the jetBlue of India. SpiceJet was adding MAX aircraft to its fleet, there were talks of codeshare and global expansion with Emirates in tow, IndiGo had placed an order for more planes, the A320neo issues seem to … Continue reading Weekend Musings: jetBlue of India is here
From India by IndiGo to the World by IndiGo – the airline has “agreed” to order A350s
IndiGo - India’s largest carrier has “agreed” to place a firm order for 30 A350-900 aircraft with options of 70 more. Deliveries are expected to start in 2027 and comes within an year of the airline placing a record order of 500 A320 family aircraft at the Paris Air show in 2023. The aircraft will … Continue reading From India by IndiGo to the World by IndiGo – the airline has “agreed” to order A350s
India Foxtrot Echo – IndiGo’s foray into premiumization of services?
In September 2019, a sudden set of tweets (it was still twitter then) announced the launch of In-Flight entertainment in IndiGo. Most looked at the advertisements or press releases and took to social media excitedly. A look at the details and one realised it was a deal with Sonyliv where the airline had a partnership. … Continue reading India Foxtrot Echo – IndiGo’s foray into premiumization of services?