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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Days after Vistara’s merger with Air India, the country’s largest airline is hoping to wean away some of the full-service carrier’s customers. The risk? Complicating its own business model.
In the world of business, there are no coincidences. Even so, IndiGo’s launch of a business class in its flights—the first of which, with 12 business class seats, is scheduled to take off at 7 am on Thursday from New Delhi to Mumbai—raises a few eyebrows. Just three days ago, Vistara flew for the last time before its merger with Air India. Vistara, as is well known, was a full-service airline with business, premium economy and economy seats.
In other words, IndiGo allowed Air India just three days of bragging rights to being the only airline in the country with …
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.
