{"id":525183,"date":"2022-09-27T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T05:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=525183"},"modified":"2022-09-27T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T06:35:26","slug":"indigo-welcome-competition-good-time-to-expand-our-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-welcome-competition-good-time-to-expand-our-network\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo: Welcome competition; good time to expand our network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Indian aviation sector undergoes a churn, with a privately-owned Air India and new players like Akasa Air potentially mounting a challenge to market leader IndiGo, the carrier\u2019s new chief executive Pieter Elbers said that competition in the country\u2019s aviation market is a \u201cgood thing\u201d for consumers as it creates higher access to the market. <\/p>\n<p>Air India recently announced a plan to raise its market share to at least 30 per cent in the domestic market over the next five years. Last month, Air India had a domestic market share of 8.5 per cent, while IndiGo\u2019s was 57.5 per cent, according to data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Indian aviation sector undergoes a churn, with a privately-owned Air India and new players like Akasa Air potentially mounting a challenge to market leader IndiGo, the carrier\u2019s new chief executive Pieter Elbers said that competition in the country\u2019s aviation market is a \u201cgood thing\u201d for consumers as it creates higher access to the market. Air India recently announced a plan to raise its market share to at least 30 per cent in the domestic market over the next five years. Last month, Air India had a domestic market share of 8.5 per cent, while IndiGo\u2019s was 57.5 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525183","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}