Govt-appointed panel found multiple violations of aviation regulations & deficiencies in airline’s operational planning, crew management and oversight mechanisms.
Companies should not unnecessarily increase fares to increase their profits and should adhere to aviation regulations. The need today is to issue licenses to new players.
While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.
Nobody is safe in a market where competition is stunted and choice limited. For the industry, meaningful reform will have to start with the government itself.
HC also questioned IndiGo’s non-compliance with rest norms. 'If a pilot is supposed to do 2 landings in a night and he is doing 6, he is compromising on people’s safety,' bench said.
With recruitments under Agnipath set to rise, the Union Budget has significantly increased spending, with the Army taking nearly 87% of the total outlay.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
Agree that the agency that approves additional routes/schedules should be monitoring the new guidelines. Needing more staff and pilots is not something that can be bought in a super market. IndiGo should have alerted the authorities. Authorities did not fulfil their responsibility in monitoring and alerting to possible issues from their regulations. Press is at fault as well, that no one analyzed the potential disruptions. Indian Press needs more watchful staff, rather than just the morning-after analyses.
This is a very outrageous take on regulator “allowing” an airline to grow disproportionately ! In fact, a fallacious take ! There are too big to fail enterprises in every sector in India and more so in several other capitalist economies ! The day a regulator starts to poke its nose to “ensure” firms do not grow beyond a certain point is the day when we start causing nervousness in the business environment of a country. This episode speaks more about mismanagement than about too big to fail. Was there any mechanism in place to regularly track how airlines were handling their roster scheduling after Nov 1 directive is the question to be asked. If not, there should be one in future to ensure these kinds of firms do not make a mess of their dominant position. One must also keep in mind that this is the same airline which has consistently shown great on time performance across a decade. There are lessons to be learnt here but surely not the one the writer of this article propounds. Do not use a sledgehammer to crack the nut.
Agree that the agency that approves additional routes/schedules should be monitoring the new guidelines. Needing more staff and pilots is not something that can be bought in a super market. IndiGo should have alerted the authorities. Authorities did not fulfil their responsibility in monitoring and alerting to possible issues from their regulations. Press is at fault as well, that no one analyzed the potential disruptions. Indian Press needs more watchful staff, rather than just the morning-after analyses.
This is a very outrageous take on regulator “allowing” an airline to grow disproportionately ! In fact, a fallacious take ! There are too big to fail enterprises in every sector in India and more so in several other capitalist economies ! The day a regulator starts to poke its nose to “ensure” firms do not grow beyond a certain point is the day when we start causing nervousness in the business environment of a country. This episode speaks more about mismanagement than about too big to fail. Was there any mechanism in place to regularly track how airlines were handling their roster scheduling after Nov 1 directive is the question to be asked. If not, there should be one in future to ensure these kinds of firms do not make a mess of their dominant position. One must also keep in mind that this is the same airline which has consistently shown great on time performance across a decade. There are lessons to be learnt here but surely not the one the writer of this article propounds. Do not use a sledgehammer to crack the nut.