Air India to cut international flights till July amid fuel surge, airspace curbs

Actually looking forward to the headline," Air India to cut international flights till July 2047 amid fuel surge, airspace curbs."
 
nahtanbob said:
Some of the guys are pretending like a $3 billion loss is a killer for Air India.
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airlines arent like other businesses.

in what world is shrinking routes, bleeding cash and competitors expanding their footprint sound like no big deal? emergency injections dont sound like no big deal... i can carry on going.

again, airlines dont operate on huge margins.
 
nahtanbob said:
The safety record matters. The fuel prices hits every airliner equally. Beyond that, passengers are happy to go with no-frill budget airlines provided the customer service is reasonable.
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not true.

air india has not hedged fuel, as i understand it, and has not done so in history? i may be wrong, but seems like AI did not go into this with hedged fuel.

OTOH, look at ryanair, locking in a year's supply at $67/barrel.
 
In addition to passengers, I wonder how much cargo is carried by Air India. That is where the real money is made considering on average, over 57% of all air cargo is moved via passenger aircraft.
 
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They forgot to engage the breaks on the equipment, because they never did because that is just how they do things there. Or the breaks were broken and no one ever bothered to fix them.

Even if the breaks were broken, no one ever bothered to use chocks on the parked equipment because no one really cared.


May they get more and more of this!

Aameen!
 
delta2 said:
They forgot to engage the breaks on the equipment, because they never did because that is just how they do things there. Or the breaks were broken and no one ever bothered to fix them.

Even if the breaks were broken, no one ever bothered to use chocks on the parked equipment because no one really cared.


May they get more and more of this!

Aameen!
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I spent enough time air side to know everything is chocked and locked when not in use.
 
Ak01 said:
not true.

air india has not hedged fuel, as i understand it, and has not done so in history? i may be wrong, but seems like AI did not go into this with hedged fuel.

OTOH, look at ryanair, locking in a year's supply at $67/barrel.
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hedging gives you a short term gain. Once the hedge wears out, you are on the same level playing field as others
 
Ak01 said:
airlines arent like other businesses.

in what world is shrinking routes, bleeding cash and competitors expanding their footprint sound like no big deal? emergency injections dont sound like no big deal... i can carry on going.

again, airlines dont operate on huge margins.
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Air India has a big captive market and comparative labor cost advantage. Hedging or no hedging does not change that.

the achilles heel for Air India has always been non-availability of capital for purchasing new aircraft. that has somewhat diminished in recent years
 
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