{"id":282715,"date":"2019-07-17T06:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282715"},"modified":"2019-07-17T06:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T06:25:05","slug":"why-is-the-rate-of-failure-of-airlines-so-high-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-is-the-rate-of-failure-of-airlines-so-high-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the rate of failure of airlines so high in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has had a fair share of failing airlines. From East West Airlines and Damania Airways in 90s to the recent cases of Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways, it\u2019s a long list of several starts and many failures. As another one, Indigo, enters turbulent times, although for different reasons, Mint deconstructs brings to you the reasons behind the high fatality of domestic airline business.<\/p>\n<p>1) Why is it tough to run an airline business?<\/p>\n<p>Airlines, the world over, are tough to run. Barring some such as Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa, most find it difficult to charge a premium, as customers, both locals and foreigners, search for the cheapest airfares. Glamorous from the outside, it is a commoditized business for most players. For every empty seat on a plane, an airline takes a hit on its profitability, or what is called the \u201cyield&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has had a fair share of failing airlines. From East West Airlines and Damania Airways in 90s to the recent cases of Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways, it\u2019s a long list of several starts and many failures. As another one, Indigo, enters turbulent times, although for different reasons, Mint deconstructs brings to you the reasons behind the high fatality of domestic airline business. 1) Why is it tough to run an airline business? Airlines, the world over, are tough to run. Barring some such as Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa, most find it difficult to charge a premium, as customers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}