Air India: The return journey

The highly competitive Indian aviation market is vastly different from what it was in the 1950s, when Air India was nationalised. However, there are big opportunities too.

For the past 50 years, the surface temperature of the Arabian Sea off Mumbai’s coast has been rising steadily, says a report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in July. Another report by the World Resources Institute (WRI) India, published in August, says Mumbai is becoming warmer and has seen a substantial increase in extreme rainfall events in the past few years. Mumbai and Surat, it adds, will see regular floods if the problem is not contained.