{"id":652043,"date":"2025-11-10T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652043"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:58:15","slug":"please-tighten-your-seatbelts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/please-tighten-your-seatbelts\/","title":{"rendered":"Please tighten your seatbelts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds both mysterious, and mystifying. Here is a company that controls more than 60 per cent of the domestic market share. There are agonised postings on social media of how it charges sky-high rates for some simple services, possibly due to its near-monopoly status. How can such a company incur huge quarterly losses regularly? Yes, we are talking about IndiGo, \u201cIndia\u2019s largest, and most preferred passenger airline, and among the fastest-growing airlines in the world.\u201d In Q2-FY26 (July-September), it incurred a net loss of more than Rs2,500 crore, which was more than two-and-a-half time the loss figure (just under Rs1,000 crore) in Q2-FY25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds both mysterious, and mystifying. Here is a company that controls more than 60 per cent of the domestic market share. There are agonised postings on social media of how it charges sky-high rates for some simple services, possibly due to its near-monopoly status. How can such a company incur huge quarterly losses regularly? Yes, we are talking about IndiGo, \u201cIndia\u2019s largest, and most preferred passenger airline, and among the fastest-growing airlines in the world.\u201d In Q2-FY26 (July-September), it incurred a net loss of more than Rs2,500 crore, which was more than two-and-a-half time the loss figure (just under [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652043","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=652043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}