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23 ARTICLES
Air India is Chandrasekaran’s cross to bear
The AI171 crash has handed the Tata Sons chairman the biggest crisis of his career. What he does from here on will define his and the group’s legacy.
24 Jun 2025
Budget IndiGo finds business class to be a ‘Stretch’
A premium offering from India’s largest airline has not evoked the expected response from flyers and just goes to show that breaking away from its low-cost DNA isn’t easy.
21 May 2025
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
Campbell Wilson’s struggles at Air India
The airline has made considerable strides since he took over as CEO two years ago. But it still seems to be stuck in personnel problems and operational issues, with no respite in sight.
13 Jun 2024
Rahul Bhatia readies IndiGo for its biggest challenge yet
The order of Airbus A350-900 wide-body aircraft puts in motion the most ambitious and riskiest project undertaken by the airline’s founder. As things stand, the odds are stacked against him.
08 May 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
How Air India bled out under Praful Patel
The aviation minister’s often ill-considered decisions led to the airline’s losses ballooning and rivals overtaking it, resulting in a slew of corruption charges and investigations.
22 Sept 2023
Who is to blame for Capt. Manoj Balasubramani’s death?
The IndiGo pilot’s untimely death has led to aviators blaming working conditions, specifically being asked to fly on consecutive nights without adequate rest. Are airlines playing fast and loose with the rules?
25 Aug 2023
How Air India used a crisis in Go First to its advantage
By poaching the grounded airline’s pilots, not only did the Air India management break the unions’ resistance, it also plugged a critical shortage of talent.
16 May 2023