Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government faces growing demands to ease a near-freeze on airline capacity that can be deployed on many routes to and from India.
Current limits on the amount of flying allowed between India and many markets date back to heavy losses at Air India around the beginning of the last decade, analysts said., rekindled a debate over market access at a New Delhi aviation conference on Tuesday., Turkish Airlines, and Kuwaiti carrier Jazeera Airways all called for sharp increases in traffic rights to and from India to meet demand. Vietnam and Indonesia also want more flights, an Indian official said.
“I think it’s about time that our carriers looked at the international market with greater focus. That’s what we are pushing the airlines to do and that process has already started,” Jyotiraditya Scindia said. “There’s so much [demand] there that none of us will be able to deal with it, if we allow unconstrained growth,” he said.
“I don’t think they’re even encouraging the discussion…the position whether other airlines like it or not, is ‘we want to build a bigger brand and we want to have a bigger share.'”
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