IndiGo once operated an all 180-seat A320 fleet. But they now have 4 sub-fleets inside the airline with different capacities. With this fleet complexity comes aircraft swaps and overbooking. Here is how the problem is being solved.
DoT notified the final rules for in-flight connectivity and paved the way for telecom providers to apply for a license in December 2018. 3 telecoms have applied for a license to provide in-flight connectivity.
Jet Airways is in the throes of financial pain right now, and in the midst of it, their aircraft induction schedule has gone for a toss. Here is why you don’t see too many of these aircraft in the air, yet!
IndiGo seems to be reconsidering their plans to operate a narrowbody on an 8+ hour flight. Those plans have just gotten into the cold storage at the moment.
An Air India 787, VT-ANE suffered an incident in Stockholm on November 28, 2018. The damaged wingtip is finally repaired and the aircraft is ferried back to India after 1.5 months.
Air India has stopped accepting bookings on their First Class cabin and seems to be already underway to retrofit these aircraft with no First Class cabins.
IndiGo has filed to launch flights on Delhi – London Gatwick route in 2019. A new development indicates SpiceJet may be planning to expand to London from two Indian cities in 2019.
Hyatt opened a Hyatt Place Goa in 2016. They have rebranded it and opened it as Hyatt Centric Goa. Hyatt is shifting the property from a minimalist one to a millennial one.
IndiGo seems to plan an entry into London in 2019. Jet Airways is also planning to add a second daily flight on Delhi – London Heathrow route, to keep their lead going on all the other airlines serving the metro market to London.
It is out in the open that IndiGo wants to add flights to London. But what we didn’t know so far was when and how? IndiGo will be adding flights to London Gatwick from March 31, 2019.
Indian aviation market is growing at a rapid pace at the backdrop of capacity induction by airlines in India. Airlines in India took deliveries at the rate of more than 1 aircraft every 3 days in 2018.
