Business
Cruising Heights
Cultural Overhaul & Fiscal Discipline: The Internal Battle
While Air India's new A350s and the revamped Maharaja Lounges might project an image of a carrier aggressively competing on a global stage, the actual situation within the airline's boardroom is one of intense, high-stakes crisis management.
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May 2026
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The Fuel Supply Squeeze and the Import Parity Absurdity
The misery does not stop at taxation.
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May 2026
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India's race to build a new logistics powerhouse
India's air cargo industry is being reshaped by crisis — and opportunity. War-driven disruption across West Asia, rising freight rates, scarce freighter capacity and growing congestion at major airports are forcing the sector to adapt faster than ever before. Yet the turbulence has also opened a strategic window for India to position itself as a global logistics hub rather than merely a large cargo market
4 min |
May 2026
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How Bad Did It Get?
The scale of what Maharashtra's move preceded tells you everything about the desperation driving it.
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May 2026
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India Finally Moves on Fuel Tax
The state finance department's notification came quietly, but for an industry running on fumes, it felt like an oxygen mask dropping in a depressurising cabin.
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May 2026
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VIRAL CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN AIMS TO BUY SPIRIT AIRLINES
There was a time when buying an airline required three things: a billionaire, a government bailout, or a mysterious investor from the Gulf arriving with a term sheet and a private jet.
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May 2026
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Adani's Airport gamble brings US-India aviation showdown
What began as a seemingly routine airport redevelopment plan has escalated into one of the most consequential aviation disputes of the decade.
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May 2026
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The Fragmented Tax Cartel
The core vulnerability of Indian aviation is operating in a high-cost environment where state governments treat jet fuel as a primary fiscal cash cow.
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May 2026
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Final Boarding Call For EBACE
For nearly 25 years, May in Geneva marked the annual convergence of global business aviation's most influential voices at EBACE.
7 min |
May 2026
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India's Pilots And The Fatigue Trap
Two young pilots died within 48 hours.
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May 2026
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IndiGo and BLR Airport Trial Contactless International Digi Yatra
IndiGo, India's preferred airline in partnership with the Digi Yatra Foundation, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has successfully demonstrated an integrated international travel flow - from ticketing and booking management to a seamless biometric-enabled journey-during technical trials at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR Airport).
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May 2026
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Jet's 777s Find Freight Life
Nearly seven years after the collapse of India's once-iconic private carrier Jet Airways, five of its grounded Boeing 777-300ER aircraft are heading towards a second life — not in India, but in the global cargo market.
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May 2026
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The Billion-Dollar Runway to Nowhere
By May 2026, the Noida International Airport at Jewar was meant to symbolise India's aviation ambitions.
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May 2026
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Warning Lights Over the Runway
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has done what India's aviation industry long hoped it would not have to do: put the country's safety record under formal scrutiny.
7 min |
May 2026
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The Long-Haul Gap
A senior partner at a Mumbai law firm — the kind who bills in dollars and flies several times a year to London — was asked recently whether the new Air India business class had tempted him away from Emirates.
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May 2026
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The Front Cabin Belongs Elsewhere
When Willie Walsh called India's widebody fleet a \"scandal,\" he was not merely provoking headlines.
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May 2026
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Why Jewar Risks Becoming a "Ghost Hub"
Conceived as the next big aviation gateway for northern India, the Greater Noida Airport was meant to symbolise scale, ambition, and the future of air travel beyond crowded metros.
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May 2026
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Pier C of Delhi's Terminal 3 commences International Operations
Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), a GMR Aero-led consortium that manages and operates Delhi Airport, announced that Pier C at Terminal 3 will commence international operations from the first week of May.
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May 2026
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Beyond Geneva's Empty Aprons
EBACE's cancellation may have surprised the aviation world, but many inside the industry had already sensed the ground shifting.
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May 2026
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SkyHop to Launch India's First Seaplane Service
SkyHop Aviation has received its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), marking a significant milestone as the company prepares to commence commercial seaplane operations in India.
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May 2026
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INDIA'S LAND WARS STALL AVIATION
For those who lament the United Kingdom's inability to decide on a third runway for Heathrow Airport, there are plenty of examples at home of similar prevarication and delay in decision-making.
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May 2026
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The Strategic Retreat and Operational Fallout
Faced with all this, the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) recently issued a blunt warning to the Civil Aviation Ministry: the current pricing trajectory will lead to insurmountable losses and fleet grounding—the numbers back that up.
1 min |
May 2026
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Is India Ready For Hubs?
India is launching an ambitious hub-and-spoke strategy to reclaim global transit traffic, designating four key airports to facilitate seamless international transfers and end dependence on foreign hubs.
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May 2026
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Shadows Over the Greenfield
Tamil Nadu needs a second airport badly enough that thirty years of governments have tried and failed to build one.
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May 2026
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War, Oil & Air India's Long Game
There are difficult years in aviation, and then there are years that test whether an airline truly deserves to survive.
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May 2026
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War, Oil & Air India's Long Game
There are difficult years in aviation, and then there are years that test whether an airline truly deserves to survive. For Air India, 2026 is becoming exactly that moment. War in West Asia, soaring oil prices, fractured air corridors, a catastrophic accident, and delayed aircraft deliveries have combined to create one of the harshest operating environments in the airline's modern history. The result is a reported 22,000 crore loss for FY26 a figure that would shake even the strongest balance sheet. Yet, amid the turbulence, Air India is pressing ahead with the boldest transformation in its modern history. Whether reinvention can outpace adversity and whether it can do so without a leader who built the case for it is the question that now defines the airline, reports TIRTHANKAR GHOSH.
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May 2026
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Bridging the Gap
The 2026 awards indicate that India is successfully narrowing the gap with global leaders.
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April 2026
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KGIA Breakthrough in Customer Excellence
Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport (BLR Airport) is establishing new global benchmarks by simultaneously attaining the highest tier of customer service accreditation and pioneering the future of biometric-led international travel.
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April 2026
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Crew Accommodation Innovation with API
Recognising that its people are its core strength, Akasa Air has partnered with Accommodations Plus International (API).
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April 2026
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MRO Facility at Noida International Airport (NIA)
In a landmark move for Indian aviation, Akasa Air and NIA have partnered to establish the airline's inaugural Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility.
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