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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A cautious approach to costs and expansion so far has helped the airline beat the odds in an industry that’s seen many a carrier bite the dust. Will its recent induction of larger aircraft be a drag?
Every time a regional airline starts operations in India, it inevitably sets off a countdown to its grounding. Over the past decade and a half, nearly a dozen such airlines connecting smaller cities and towns in the country have shut shop. Some folded within a year. Others managed to hang around for a while longer, only to eventually bow to the complexities of the aviation business.
Star Air, which started operations in 2019, was expected to go the same way. Like most of its predecessors, the airline was launched by a little known business house, the Kolhapur-based Sanjay Ghodawat Group, …
As the low-cost carrier pushes through a compensation overhaul, the absence of a CEO is complicating a delicate moment.
The two new chief executives at Air India and IndiGo come with contrasting reputations but face the same challenge—do their predecessors one better.
A regulatory easing could see the billionaire’s conglomerate move from running airports to owning an airline—an idea he is warming up to, with multiple options open.
