Airlines typically spirit people from one city to another and after forging links between them, fly to another and another. Adding routes, with much ado, is what they do. Low-cost carrier GoAir is the antithesis of this defining characteristic of airlines.
It has long been the fuddy-duddy of Indian skies, cautious to a fault in embracing expansion. Be it fleet size, number of flights or number of routes, the 10-year-old has been awfully timid compared with competitors (see Slow, Very Slow). Both IndiGo and SpiceJet, which started around the time GoAir first took off, have far more planes — 111 and 42, fly to more routes — 40 and 39 — than GoAir. The airline's market share was 8.4% in July compared with 39.8% and 11.7% of IndiGo and SpiceJet ..
New airlines in India like Vistara and AirAsia India have lobbied hard to launch international flights, bound by the infamous 5/20 rule that which prevented them from flying international routes until they are five years old and have at least 20 planes (the new aviation policy has relaxed this rule a little). GoAir, in contrast, was in no hurry to exploit the opportunity even when it met one of the conditions (age) five years ago.
23/08/16 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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It has long been the fuddy-duddy of Indian skies, cautious to a fault in embracing expansion. Be it fleet size, number of flights or number of routes, the 10-year-old has been awfully timid compared with competitors (see Slow, Very Slow). Both IndiGo and SpiceJet, which started around the time GoAir first took off, have far more planes — 111 and 42, fly to more routes — 40 and 39 — than GoAir. The airline's market share was 8.4% in July compared with 39.8% and 11.7% of IndiGo and SpiceJet ..
New airlines in India like Vistara and AirAsia India have lobbied hard to launch international flights, bound by the infamous 5/20 rule that which prevented them from flying international routes until they are five years old and have at least 20 planes (the new aviation policy has relaxed this rule a little). GoAir, in contrast, was in no hurry to exploit the opportunity even when it met one of the conditions (age) five years ago.
23/08/16 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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