{"id":22962,"date":"2025-12-25T18:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22962"},"modified":"2025-12-25T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:26:43","slug":"duopoly-of-air-india-indigo-to-face-competition-from-2-new-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22962","title":{"rendered":"Duopoly of Air India, IndiGo to face competition from 2 new airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/25\/4ac15005-0ebc-49b1-9bef-00f22d488fe8_70ecdd39.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">India<\/span>\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">aviation<\/span> sector is poised to become more competitive after authorities granted initial approval to two new airlines to start operations in the country, in a move that will further challenge the duopoly of IndiGo and Air India.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The expansion comes as the sector was rattled by a series of setbacks this year, including IndiGo\u2019s massive flight cancellations earlier this month and the crash of an Air India plane in Ahmedabad in June.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Tuesday, Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu said in a social media post that his ministry had issued a \u201cno-objection certificate\u201d to Al Hind Air and FlyExpress this week in a bid to encourage \u200dmore competition in the domestic market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to Al Hind\u2019s website, the airline plans to begin operations in southern India with a fleet \u200cof ATR Turboprop aircraft and is in the process of obtaining an air operator certificate.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">FlyExpress did not give any details about its launch, with a banner on its website indicating \u201ccoming soon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The entry of the two new airlines is expected to pressure IndiGo and Air India to raise their competitiveness after several major setbacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3337720\/duopoly-air-india-indigo-face-competition-2-new-airlines?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s aviation sector is poised to become more competitive after authorities granted initial approval to two new airlines to start operations in the country, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[364,8587,8326,12316,3507,1390,11691],"class_list":["post-22962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-air","tag-airlines","tag-competition","tag-duopoly","tag-face","tag-india","tag-indigo","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}