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8 ARTICLES
With a business class, IndiGo takes aim at Air India’s ‘premium’ tag
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.
13 Nov 2024
The C factor that could upend the Air India-Vistara merger
Indian aviation is replete with failed attempts at integrating cultures of merged entities. Given the fissures and concerns in both airlines, have the Tatas done enough to buck the trend?
23 Oct 2024
DigiYatra opens a new can of worms
A user’s post on X reinforces what many privacy rights advocates have long feared: that airports are coercing flyers into using the facility, often making it impossible to say ‘no’.
20 Jun 2024
Turbulence at Vistara is its own doing
Hundreds of cancelled and delayed flights cannot really be pinned on ‘unavailability of crew’. Rather, it is a chronic shortage of pilots as well as sloppy training and HR practices at the Tata-SIA airline that is to blame.
02 Apr 2024
Was Air India CEO picked with eye on merger with Vistara?
Scoot’s Campbell Wilson may not have been the Tatas’ first choice to lead Air India, but his appointment fuels speculation that a merger between AI and Vistara is on the cards.
24 May 2022
Why Vistara is unravelling
Snowballing customer ire has brought to the fore a deeper rot within the joint venture between the Tatas and Singapore Airlines, heightening the uncertainty on the airline’s future.
07 Feb 2022
Why the markets could correct more and Vistara overtakes SpiceJet
The Sensex has been in correction mode for the last few days, falling over 2%. What explains the sudden softness? We look at an interesting trend, and a break in it which points to a downhill trek for the markets in the short term. Separately, there is a change in the pecking order of the Indian aviation industry. How did a smaller Vistara manage to go past SpiceJet?
21 Oct 2021