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In the past year, I’ve featured interviews with a number airline executives and branding experts. Here’s one with a person I feel has a very good grasp of the airline industry and is [...]

In this second part of the interview with Sanjay Kumar, the Chief Commercial Officer of Indigo Airlines, we talk about my favorite topic – airline branding. Sanjay believes that branding is [...]

Closing off the Indian Aviation Special Month here at SimpliFlying, this week, I’d like to share with you an exclusive interview with Binit Somaia, Director India & Middle East, at [...]

Dear aviation and branding enthusiasts, I have good news to share with you. I’ve been invited as a speaker at the Aviation Outlook Summit Middle East, to be held in Abu Dhabi from March [...]

I flew on Indigo Airlines for the first time about three weeks ago. This was a flight from Bangalore to Jaipur, via Ahmedabad, in India. All airline staff seemed to have a spring in their step [...]

. Asking for tips in Business Class Recently, I met up with a senior airline executive in Bangalore, India. He shared with me a very interesting incident. While flying Business Class from London [...]

Image via Wikipedia In a startling revelation today, United Airlines announced that it’s closed down it’s sole customer service call center in India. This means that customers will no [...]

Image via Wikipedia … Jet Airways recently hinted that the worst is over for them and they expect to break even again in the middle of this year. And this is mostly because of the drop in [...]

Re-posting here one of my favorite posts, originally published in early-2008, at the peak of the competition in Indian skies. Enjoy! ____________________ Sometimes, competition can lead to funny [...]

Just a few hours ago, Lufthansa raised its forecast for full-year 2008 operating profits from EUR1.1 billion to EUR1.3 billion thanks to a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter. And this comes in [...]