
Air India: The return journey
India Today
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.

As the war enters its fourth week, airlines are struggling to cope with a sharp rise in jet fuel prices, which have surged significantly in a short span of time. The impact is already visible for passengers, with ticket prices expected to rise in the coming months as airlines try to protect already thin profit margins.












