Indian Aviation: lost & gone...

Its been a couple of months that I am not active with my posts. I know that its long due to give a good post & share a great piece of knowledge. Being working with Club One Air & watching closely my fav. sector has only given me a lot of disappointments specially with the growth of this industry. Like every body else I can also blame high ATF prices & blah-blah... I just want to know the base of this halt in growth. Are airlines to be blamed just like ATF hikes, I personally dont think so. In my opinion, Govt. is to be blamed for its double standard policies, be it development of airports, giving permissions to airlines to fly abroad or entry of new airlines. Govt. made such a hoopla about regional airlines, what happened to them. None of them has taken wings. In the past it self so many low cost airlines started but, nearly all of them are in the stage of dying. 

Who is at fault???

The Low Cost Charters (LCC)...

Just imagine getting the services of Air Charters in the cost of business class air tickets. Yes, this is going to be possible very soon. Till now we only discussed about the low cost model of the scheduled airlines. Today I will discuss about the low cost model in air chartering. Air chartering which was considered to be exclusive, is soon will be in the reach of middle class people. This can be done with VLJs i.e. Very Light Jets (more info about VLJs from wikipedia). There are already a few companies trying to get VLJs in India. These are :

MyJet India

Club One Air

Invision Air

MyJet & Club One Air are going to start their services soon. In fact, MyJet will offer per seat on demand which is very unique & first of its type in India, where as Club One Air will offer high end services (matching its present offerings). Not much information is there about Invision Air.

Watch out for MyJet !!!

Aircraft Fractional Ownership & India...

I was wondering why I have never posted about any of the charted airlines, even though i did my internship in a charted airline. Let me break this unsaid rule. With so much hype of B-jets (entering in India, Tata has stake in this) & Netjets offering what is known as Aircraft Fractional Ownership (AFO). Being the only person in India (i think so) who has done a project on Aircraft Fractional Ownership (I did a my Internship with Club One Air on the project titled - "Feasibility of Aircraft Fractional Ownership in India"), i believe its my duty to tell my readers about this AFO thing. The concept of AFO can best known on Netjets website, as this company introduced the concept to the world. I would like to cover issues pertaining to AFO in specifically in India. These issues are a roadblock to this concept-

1. Inappropriate Infrastructure.
2. Charted Flights are not allowed to take off on busy timings.
3. Secondary preference given to charted flights.
4. Even Indian Corporates love to have discounts in AFO, how these players will overcome that.
5. Indians dont love to share thier vehicles, how they will share an aircraft.

Well I will not discuss my findings but, these are the million dollar question to be answered.