New Delhi: Tata-SIA joint venture airline Vistara, which will complete one year of operations on Saturday may have grown its fleet size to nine aircraft from three at the time of commencement of services, its passenger load factor and yields have been below expectations.
The third full-service domestic carrier after Air India and Jet Airways, Vistara had launched its services on January 9 last year with a flight to Mumbai from here. Today, it operates 307 weekly flights to 12 destinations with a fleet of nine Airbus A320s.
According to the India head of the Sydney-based aviation think-tank Centre for Asia Pacific (CAPA), Kapil Kaul, while Vistara's operational preparedness has been on expected lines, the passenger seat factor and yields have been surprisingly below expectations.
Vistara has, however, in its one year of service delivered growth (with a 9-aircraft fleet now) with reliability and schedule integrity, Kaul added. The airline has plans to expand to its fleet to 20 aircraft by 2018.
08/01/16 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
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The third full-service domestic carrier after Air India and Jet Airways, Vistara had launched its services on January 9 last year with a flight to Mumbai from here. Today, it operates 307 weekly flights to 12 destinations with a fleet of nine Airbus A320s.
According to the India head of the Sydney-based aviation think-tank Centre for Asia Pacific (CAPA), Kapil Kaul, while Vistara's operational preparedness has been on expected lines, the passenger seat factor and yields have been surprisingly below expectations.
Vistara has, however, in its one year of service delivered growth (with a 9-aircraft fleet now) with reliability and schedule integrity, Kaul added. The airline has plans to expand to its fleet to 20 aircraft by 2018.
08/01/16 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
