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
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?
Virgin Atlantic announced its second daily to Mumbai on April 03, 2024. The flight, which begins operations in winter schedule, beginning October 27, 2024 is now open for sale. The airline will deploy the A350-1000 on this route which will make it a doubly daily operation between London Heathrow and Mumbai for Virgin Atlantic. VS358 … Continue reading Virgin Atlantic bets on bilateral expansion, announces second daily to Mumbai
Air India Express - the low cost arm and a fully owned subsidiary of Air India is expanding operations this summer. The airline started receiving the first of 190 MAX aircraft towards the end of last year and since then it has been expanding selectively, largely on domestic routes taking on IndiGo on its monopolies … Continue reading Air India Express adds international flights this summer, focus on Kannur
As November comes to a close, the month has seen the highest ever domestic passenger numbers recorded post COVID lockdown in India. However, I was closely tracking data for October and waiting for the regulator to declare the granular data for October. The summary for October was about Air India topping the OTP charts but … Continue reading Eleven thousand passengers separated Air India and Vistara in October – Will AI push Vistara out in November?
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