Air India’s grand turnaround is running into a familiar airline reality: growth is easy to announce, but losses are harder to absorb.
OMAAT flags a Bloomberg report that Tata Group has instructed Air India management to focus on reducing losses rather than simply growing. That reportedly means deferring aircraft deliveries, scaling back both domestic and international expansion, stabilizing operations, and cutting costs.
Air India is said to be in talks with Airbus and Boeing to slow delivery of hundreds of jets. That is quite a shift from the post-privatization narrative, when Air India’s transformation was framed around growth, new aircraft, new cabins, new lounges, and a chance to claw back Indian longhaul traffic that has been flowing over Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Singapore, and Europe for years.
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