Singapore/ New Delhi:Jet Airways (India) Ltd, the country’s largest airline by passengers carried, plans to increase its focus on international passengers and order long- and medium-haul aircraft to help it take on overseas rivals.
Foreign airlines, led by West Asia’s Emirates, Qatar Airways, Air Arabia, Fly Dubai and Etihad Airways, carry 65% of the international traffic to and from India. Jet, Air India, Kingfisher Airlines and SpiceJet have the rest.
Protecting interests: Naresh Goyal says he is not in favour of allowing foreign airlines to invest in Indian carriers.
Jet chairman Naresh Goyal said competition from the West Asian carriers was understandable. With the “opening of the economy, we can’t put the clock back”.
But he added he hopes to eat into their share.
“We are preparing ourselves on how to take on competition and position ourselves as an Indian carrier with our brand reputation, name, reliability and use our hubs between (New) Delhi and Mumbai, and then bring the traffic from Europe (to South Asia and South- East Asia),” Goyal said on the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association (Iata) airline meet in Singapore.
“No Indian carrier has ever carried traffic beyond India. We have already started it. In London, we have replaced many carriers (in flying passengers) to Bangkok,” he said.
09/06/11 Tarun Shukla/Live Mint
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