New Delhi: India's low-cost carriers may be apprehensive of ensuing competition in the local market as AirAsia readies for its India takeoff, but they seem to have successfully dealt with Tony Fernandes' airline on the South-east Asian routes.
AirAsia shut operations to four Indian cities over the past four years, going by its rigid stand of flying only on routes that become profitable within a year. While the airline has cited high airport charges for its woes in operating to those cities, its rivals from South-east Asia and India have managed to expand on those routes by adding new flights and capacity.
In 2011, AirAsia stopped operations to Hyderabad while its long-haul low-cost arm AirAsia X closed operations to New Delhi and Mumbai in 2012 and Thai AirAsia stopped flights to Kolkata starting this month. All these moves followed hikes in airport charges.
14/02/14 Debabrata Das/Economic Times
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AirAsia shut operations to four Indian cities over the past four years, going by its rigid stand of flying only on routes that become profitable within a year. While the airline has cited high airport charges for its woes in operating to those cities, its rivals from South-east Asia and India have managed to expand on those routes by adding new flights and capacity.
In 2011, AirAsia stopped operations to Hyderabad while its long-haul low-cost arm AirAsia X closed operations to New Delhi and Mumbai in 2012 and Thai AirAsia stopped flights to Kolkata starting this month. All these moves followed hikes in airport charges.
14/02/14 Debabrata Das/Economic Times
