Vistara thriving on international routes, more coming up: CEO Kannan

Having posted its maiden profit, Vistara Airlines is now bracing for its merger with Air India. At the cusp of this momentous feat, CEO Vinod Kannan talks to DH’s Lavpreet Kaur on what the immediate future and post-merger holds for the eight-year-old airline and then some – on the Indian aviation scene. Here some excerpts from that exchange:

Air India CEO, Campbell Wilson, has talked of taking forward some of Vistara’s legacy into the merged entity – which would these be?

I think one of the things that is very clear, from both Campbell, as well as the shareholders, is that all the positives that we built here,