All Indian airlines need to start looking for wide-body aircraft now: SpiceJet CMD
New Delhi: All Indian airlines need to start looking for wide-body aircraft now as it would allow them to take passengers directly from India to different parts of the world, said SpiceJetNSE -0.20 % CMD Ajay Singh on Tuesday.
In India, only Air India and Vistara have wide-body aircraft like B787 in their fleet. All other airlines have narrow body aircraft or even smaller regional aircraft in their fleet.
“I think we all as Indian carriers need to look at a wide-body option now. But it has to be supported strongly by government policy. If you are going to allow the network carriers, people who are in the Gulf and in the Far East to just keep billions of dollars from their government and keep undercutting us, then it is very difficult to do (operate wide body aircraft),” he said at a webinar.
