Air India is not an airline known for being punctual and now the airline must either be on time or be left all alone. On December 13th 2007 Star Alliance, the worlds largest airline alliance, formally invited Air India to join as a member, with the intended entry date of March 29 2009. As…
Airlines around the world routinely sell aircraft they no longer need. Aircraft are sold due to age, fleet commonality, converted to freighters and some are just scrapped. As Air India modernizes its fleet and seeks additional liquid capital in the process it has arranged a somewhat unusual sale to be directly carried out by an…
Last week it came to light that Air India was exploring Ireland’s Dublin Airport as a new Euro Hub, which didn’t make a lot of sense, which I wrote about in this post – Air India’s Search For A Euro Hub in Dublin…but why? As of today however Air India is presenting their search for…
On October 31 2010 Air India bid farewell to its short-lived European hub at Frankfurt Airport, in Germany. Air India had established a hub in Frankfurt only 17 months before its closure, however despite referring to the Frankfurt hub as “crucial” the airlines’ expansion, Air India quickly determined that the hub inefficient. With the airline…
India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation has recently released a list of fifty-six airline pilots flying in India that have failed sobriety tests over the past two years. This release, while disturbing unto itself isn’t the surprising part of the story … … the surprising part of the story is that twenty thee of the pilots…
Operating an airline is expensive and complex and it seems many airlines seem to be in existence only because their government keeps them afloat. In 1932 Air India was created, as Tata Airlines, a mail carrier. In 1953 Tata Airlines was nationalized and renamed Air India, an international airline, while Indian Airlines was created as…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 10/07/2009 – CROSS-OVER POST FROM SIMPLIFLYING : How Business Lessons Learned From AirAsia Can Rescue The Battered Air India Brand This weeks’ Cross-Post from Shashank Nigam’s Simpliflying is an interesting look at ways Air India can rescue its self. What makes the airline’s financial success and future so interesting is…
