With Jet Airways being non-operational, opportunities narrowing in Indian market: Star Alliance CEO
India is a big aviation market and Air India provides the important domestic network for our members but opportunities in the market are narrowing with Jet Airways being non-operational, Star Alliance CEO Jeffrey Goh said Sunday.
Star Alliance is a grouping of 28 airlines, including Air India, which became a member in July 2014.
Emphasising that Air India is an important representation for the alliance in the Indian sub-continent, Goh said the airline provides very important domestic network for its members to connect into.
"Indian market is a big market and is a very fast growing market... clearly things are changing very fast in the Indian market in connection with what has happened with Jet Airways. I think certainly to that degree possible, it will help (that)... Air India will have higher capacity and better yields because there is less capacity in the market," he said here.
Full service carrier Jet Airways, which had a significant number of international flights, temporarily ...