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

[Jaeger]

You didn't correct me, you agreed with me, question here is the validity of those assumptions and utility in relation to the real world. This has been discussed anyway in the economy thread just reinforces how if a certain reality cannot be stomached no problem, some people just move on to the next feel good fiction, if you don't think the closure of airspace is causing financial stress, an additional financial stress, okay why not talk about the GDP as well

If someone is right. There is no need to correct them. All statistics is based on estimates.

May that be projected growth rate of an economy or projected losses in a particular sector.

However what has been proven again and again for past few years is that, India government's projections of Indian economic growth rate is more or less accurate unlike some other countries who miss their projected growth rates by as much as 0.5 - 1.0 percent or even more, every single year.

Pakistanis would like to believe the entire India aviation sector about to collapse because Pakistan's closure of its airspace where as Indian airspace closure has no effect on Pakistan at all despite India being 4 times larger than Pakistan, blocks all most all Pakistani routes East and what's more, it prevents any future expansion of routes to East of Pakistan. I believe you just finished selling off PIA just yesterday.

On other hand Indians would like to believe that Pakistan closure airspace has no effect India aviation sector at all.

Obviously the truth some where in the middle. Pakistani airspace closure causes some losses but no where near what Pakistanis imagine.

If everything else was the same i.e. the gulf war, high jet fuel prices, Indian government not allowing fuel surcharge to passed on to passengers and middle eastern airspace closure. But Pakistan airspace was still open for India owned aircraft, the Indian avaition sector losses would have been pretty much the same.

 

[r3alist]

If someone is right. There is no need to correct them. All statistics is based on estimates.

May that be projected growth rate of an economy or projected losses in a particular sector.

However what has been proven again and again for past few years is that, India government's projections of Indian economic growth rate is more or less accurate unlike some other countries who miss their projected growth rates by as much as 0.5 - 1.0 percent or even more, every single year.

Pakistanis would like to believe the entire India aviation sector about to collapse because Pakistan's closure of its airspace where as Indian airspace closure has no effect on Pakistan at all despite India being 4 times larger than Pakistan, blocks all most all Pakistani routes East and what's more, it prevents any future expansion of routes to East of Pakistan. I believe you just finished selling off PIA just yesterday.

On other hand Indians would like to believe that Pakistan closure airspace has no effect India aviation sector at all.

Obviously the truth some where in the middle. Pakistani airspace closure causes some losses but no where near what Pakistanis imagine.

If everything else was the same i.e. the gulf war, high jet fuel prices, Indian government not allowing fuel surcharge to passed on to passengers and middle eastern airspace closure. But Pakistan airspace was still open for India owned aircraft, the Indian avaition sector losses would have been pretty much the same.

Yes but the reality is everything is not the same, if there was no gravity then I could float in the air.

As for the GDP point, it's another thread, statistics also have reliability, and plenty of published reports which question the assumptions outside of the services sector, the economic output for the majority of Indians cannot be reliably captured, hence the assumptions that lead to bloating of the GDP.

It's a first world sounding GDP based on a third world approach.

On the other hand a company's audited financial statements are going to be much more measurable and reliable, you have higher costs and higher flying times and therefore other downstream costs, that's not statistics that's just basic accounting

 

[Master Chief]

Just start flying flights over Pakistan airspace without their approval and see if they have guts to attack innocent civilian aircraft.... I will be the first one to board on this flight if we decide to experiment....

There have been several instances of civilian aircraft (and military aircraft, which is a case that IAF are VERY familiar with!) being forced to land for straying into hostile airspace. Sometimes the aircraft is shot down, sometimes it does successfully land in hostile territory.

I don't see how either outcome is a "win" for India but please do proceed.

 

[Jaeger]

Yes but the reality is everything is not the same, if there was no gravity then I could float in the air.

As for the GDP point, it's another thread, statistics also have reliability, and plenty of published reports which question the assumptions outside of the services sector, the economic output for the majority of Indians cannot be reliably captured, hence the assumptions that lead to bloating of the GDP.

It's a first world sounding GDP based on a third world approach.

On the other hand a company's audited financial statements are going to be much more measurable and reliable, you have higher costs and higher flying times and therefore other downstream costs, that's not statistics that's just basic accounting

You are assuming that India economic growth can not reliably measured as majority of Indian economy is undocumented economy, hence Indian growth rate is inflated.

That is a very flawed assumption, but what does that say about your own economic growth rate or Bangladesh's or for that matter any third world country ?