After India’s worst travel meltdown in years left tens of thousands of passengers stranded this month, civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu stood up in parliament to declare that the country must break the duopoly that rules its skies.
“We need to have five big airlines,” he proclaimed after an operational failure at India’s dominant carrier IndiGo. “I want more players to be there in this industry. This is the time to start an airline in India.”
The minister’s call came after an exceptionally bumpy year for Indian aviation, with the IndiGo chaos and the fatal crash of an Air India jet exposing cracks in the world’s third-largest air transport market as passenger numbers surge and aircraft orders pile up.
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