Short-haul flights to popular destinations and strategic alliances help India’s largest airline take a surprise lead over Air India in the international market.
Which Indian airline has the largest share of traffic into and out of India?
Curiously, both Campbell Wilson, the chief executive officer and managing director of Air India, and Pieter Elbers, the chief executive officer of IndiGo, will be correct if they claim the honour for their airline.
Air India and its low-cost unit Air India Express jointly carried 21.2% of the 5.5 million international passengers who flew into India in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. Their share was 20.7% of the outbound international traffic.
But when you separate them into individual entities, a new leader emerges: …
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