Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that it was his dream to see a person who wears a ‘hawai chappal’ to fly on the ‘hawai jahaaz’. That was in 2017 when he flagged off the first Rs 2,500-an-hour flight from Shimla as part of the UDAN scheme that aimed at putting small towns on India’s aviation map and making air travel affordable for the lower middle class.
Today, with 149 airports, 517 air routes and 1.5 crore fliers, India’s aviation sector is one of the fastest growing in the world. A new airline, the kind that promises to put the man in ‘hawai chappal’ on the ‘hawai jahaaz’ is just taking off.
