Showing posts with label Indian aviation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian aviation. Show all posts

Monday, November 30, 2015

Vistara: Fast fleet expansion, route development lags

by Soumen Mukherjee
VT-TTB, Vistara first A320-232 aircraft at Delhi Airport
Vistara, the countries latest full-service carrier is a joint-venture (51:49) between Tata Group and Singapore Airlines. The airline had commenced its operation on 9 January 2015. The airline has a robust fleet expansion program which stands at 9 even before it completes 1 year of operation. It has a network of 12 destinations and serves 25 routes as of today. Vistara has so far carried 7.72 Lakh passengers in the first 10 months and crossed the 1 Lakh monthly passengers mark for the first time in October. And the airline is expected to cross the milestone of flying the first million passengers by the end of the year, which is also well within its 1 year of operation. Here we will discuss how the airline so far performed in terms of its aircraft utilization and route development and whether it is able to maintain pace with its fast fleet expansion to have a maximum utilization of those capacity?