NEW DELHI: Qatar Airways has for years repeatedly expressed a desire to pick up a stake in India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo. Now the two aviation giants will finally make a \u201cstrategic business announcement\u201d on Thursday, which could be of a code-share for now. Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker is coming to Delhi, where he and IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta \u201ctalk about the vision and future for both the airlines\u201d, said a joint invite by the airline for this event.
\nThe timing is crucial as Qatar-IndiGo have always been seen as a likely contender to bid for Air India if the government gets the divestment conditions right this time. Also, IndiGo\u2019s medium-haul experience on its single-aisle Airbus A320neo family on the Delhi-Istanbul route has not exactly left flyers happy. So, a Jet-Etihad type of structure \u2014 where IndiGo flies its single-aisles to Doha from numerous Indian cities and provides the feed for Qatar\u2019s wide-bodies to the rest of the world (scissor operations) \u2014 will be a seamless affair with a code-share agreement making eminent business sense. Indi-Go has almost half of India\u2019s domestic market share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Qatar Airways has for years repeatedly expressed a desire to pick up a stake in India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo. Now the two aviation giants will finally make a \u201cstrategic business announcement\u201d on Thursday, which could be of a code-share for now. Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker is coming to Delhi, where he and IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta \u201ctalk about the vision and future for both the airlines\u201d, said a joint invite by the airline for this event. The timing is crucial as Qatar-IndiGo have always been seen as a likely contender to bid for Air […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299743","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=299743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}