Showing posts with label Full service carrier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Full service carrier. Show all posts

Friday, January 8, 2016

Flashback: Vistara's operation through the past 12 months

by Soumen Mukherjee
Vistara team celebrating its Millionth passenger on 23 December 2015
Vistara, the joint-venture airline between Tata group and Singapore Airlines, had started its scheduled flight services last year on 9 January, it is the newest full-service carrier in India. The service launch was kept relatively low-key affair. The airline got its name from the Sanskrit word Vistaar, meaning 'limitless expanse'. Vistara just completes its first year of operations. Here we will revisit its operations, services and some of its achievements through out the past one year. Vistara has achieved several milestone during the course of its one year journey, for example it maintained best on-time performance record for 4 consecutive months (Aug-Nov'15). Achieved first million passenger within its first year of operations. As of November 2015 Vistara has 1.9% market-share in India's domestic aviation market.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Vistara celebrates its millionth passenger today

by Soumen Mukherjee
Vistara team welcoming the 1 millionth passenger at Delhi Airport


Vistara, the Tata-Singapore Airlines joint venture full service carrier, has crossed the milestone of flying the first million passengers today. The airline started its operation on 9 January 2015 and currently flies 311 weekly flights to a network of 12 destinations with a 9 aircraft fleet. It achieved the millionth flier on the 349th day of its operations, at least 2 weeks before it completes the first year. For a relatively new airline its a great achievement to have 1 million passengers flown. This blogger has already predicted it earlier that Vistara going to  cross the million passenger mark by the end of 2015.