Emirates is effectively the national airline of India at this point when it comes to traveling beyond the border. On the long-haul front, the Middle East carriers have gleefully spent years bulking up their flying into India to connect people from Africa, Europe, and the US. ![]() It has grown the pie while also stealing from Air India. First it was the now-deceased Jet Airways but more recently it has been the more efficient IndiGo which has surged to become the largest domestic airline in India by far with well over half the market. That sounds like it would be a good thing, but it did not go well.Īs if a botched merger wasn’t enough of a problem… while Air India was saddled with terrible inefficiency and bureaucracy, private airlines were allowed to eat the airline’s lunch. Then in 2007 it was forced to merge with the Indian government’s chosen instrument for domestic travel, Indian Airlines. It used to be the Indian government’s chosen instrument for international travel. ![]() Air India has been a mess for as long as I can remember.
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