Insights

We regularly publish insights across a variety of journals in addition to sharing proprietary insights for clients. Our annual publications include our much sought after annual outlook reports that forecast changes in South Asian markets.

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Jun 2023
Satyendra Pandey

Mid-Air Musings | Indigo’s fresh aircraft order — here's how it puts the airline on the global aviation roadmap

Months of speculation was building up in Indian aviation. The topic in question was a new aircraft order by India’s largest airline, Indigo. And sure enough with the announcement of 500 firm orders, Indigo brought the crescendo to a climax and firmly signalled its belief in the India market potential. Not to mention its intention to continue...

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Mar 2023
Satyendra Pandey

Midair Musings: Rising yields and demand a changing face of Indian aviation may shrink your cheap flight hopes

High yields and strong demand have helped better cash-flow especially for stronger airlines and the market now effectively has 5 airlines of which three -- --Air India, Indigo, Akasa-- are quite stable from an industry perspective. But, the shrinking competition could certainly narrow the flyers' hope for cheap flights too...

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Jun 2023
Satyendra Pandey

India’s Airline Landscape: What the year 2023 holds for the sector

The market in 2023 will be a battle between Indigo and Air India (including subsidiaries). Together these two behemoths will control 80 percent of the market. The other airlines are left competing at the fringes and it would seem that additional consolidation may be the way to go...

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Jun 2023
Satyendra Pandey

Indian Aviation Headed For A Risk Rerating?

Proponents cite all things positive, including the voluminous aircraft orders, airports bursting at the seams and penetration of flights per capita. Opponents cite all things negative, including the airline bankruptcies, rising airfares and constant consumer grievances. And both arguments may actually hold true...

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Dec 2022
Satyendra Pandey

Chaos at airports: A result of meaningless metrics and force-fit solutions

As news of airport chaos continues to make it to the headlines, several numbers are being floated. The chaos has been bad enough to force ministerial intervention, capacity reduction and also parliamentary summons. But once the dust settles, not much change is anticipated. Part of the reason are the airport metrics which lend...

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India Airport Outlook

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