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Flying rights: Protect air travellers from opaque and exploitative seat selection charges
Charging extra for a seat after a flight is booked is like charging for air supply once an aircraft gains altitude. In an aviation market that lacks competition, the sector’s regulator must intervene to enforce airfare transparency.
3 min read12 Dec 2025IndiGo crisis: Liberalization is not enough if consumer trust is eroded
Both insurance and aviation touch the daily lives of millions of Indians and require deep infrastructure, robust regulation, and sustained capital to serve a rapidly expanding market. Yet, their journeys since liberalization could not have been more different.
3 min read10 Dec 2025'How can airlines charge ₹35,000?' Delhi HC raps Centre, DGCA amid IndiGo flight cancellations — Key updates
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the central government as to why the situation that led to the cancellation of a number of IndiGo flights precipitated, and termed it a “crisis”.
3 min read10 Dec 2025IndiGo management failed to contain op crisis; PM Modi told us to do everything for passengers: Civil Aviation Minister
Civil Aviation Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu has said that the IndiGo CEO and management failed in containing its operational crisis and flight cancellations that led to huge difficulties for passengers, and strict action will be taken after looking into the airline's reply to the Show Cause notice.
5 min read9 Dec 2025Lesson from India’s aviation market failure: The Invisible Hand is theory but regulation is a must
The IndiGo crisis is a reminder of a deeper truth: Adam Smith’s famous Invisible Hand fails far too often for us to rely on market mechanisms. When prices surge to exploit customers, regulation that resists capture and intervenes effectively is all we can count on.
4 min read8 Dec 2025Boardrooms must not be caught dozing over risks: The IndiGo fiasco ought to splash them awake
Was IndiGo’s board monitoring risks and resilience? Did growth overshadow other imperatives? The stunning system-wide chaos that shook an airline that dominates air travel in India calls for an institutional soul-search.
3 min read8 Dec 2025How India’s top airline unraveled in quest for higher profit
IndiGo’s tightly-run operations are built on a rapid turnaround of flights and a strategy of sweating every asset—man or machine—to the limit. It flies only one aircraft type, Airbus A320s family jets, a standardization that cuts costs on pilot and crew training, maintenance and parts inventory.
5 min read8 Dec 2025IndiGo held aviation to ransom: This should cue a structural overhaul of the sector
The airline’s dominance and sub-par regulation are both to blame for the chaos that marooned passengers and sent fares soaring. The crisis demands antitrust scrutiny of IndiGo, a look at the case for its split-up and measures to ease market concentration—such as relief from the Airbus-Boeing duopoly
2 min read8 Dec 2025Too big to fail: Why IndiGo cancellations turned into a national crisis
Thousands of passengers were stranded—missing meetings, holidays and even weddings—as IndiGo cancelled more than 2,000 flights. Behind the chaos lies a deeper structural failure in India’s aviation market.
4 min read7 Dec 2025IndiGo scrambles to add over 900 pilots as flight-limit rules bite. Experts warn of challenge
IndiGo plans to hire over 900 pilots to meet new night-flight limits, but experts warn tight notice periods and high aircraft utilization make meeting the target challenging.
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Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared
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