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Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is the main gateway to the city of Mumbai and the second busiest airport in India. Hosting domestic, regional and international passenger and cargo services, the airport is a hub for airlines including Air India and Jet Airways.

Location of Mumbai Airport, India

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Jet Airways-Jetstar interline positions carriers for growth in India, Southeast Asia and Australasia

29-Feb-12 12:32 PM

A new interline agreement between India's Jet Airways and low-cost carrier Jetstar is a significant development for the two carriers and their respective markets. Jet Airways on a single ticket will be able to sell across Jetstar's network from Singapore, which predominantly includes points in Southeast and East Asia (where Jet Airways' network is thin) as well as Australia and New Zealand, where traffic flows to India may shift in the short/medium-term as Air India looks to commence direct flights and Virgin Australia works with new alliance partner Singapore Airlines.

The agreement further evolves Jetstar's hybrid model as Jet Airways passengers, like those of select oneworld carriers, will receive checked luggage and, on long-haul flights, meals and comfort kits on Jetstar flights as part of their ticket whereas other passengers have to pay separately. While this adds complexity and some are sceptical of LCCs moving away from a stripped-down model, blurring the lines and adding complexity is rational when yields and network enhancements outweigh the additional cost.

Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce Qantas cuts international services to grow profitable domestic market as Jetstar grows all around

17-Feb-12 12:49 PM

Qantas is making significant competitive responses to invigorated challenger Virgin Australia’s push in the lucrative Australian domestic market. Qantas will withdraw international routes and re-allocate aircraft primarily to the domestic market to keep the 65% market share it believes is optimal for overall performance. Additional network changes will right-size its fleet to demand while the company looks to shrink engineering facilities due to aircraft retirements. For its planned Asia-based premium carrier, Qantas will pursue a capital light option in which an airline partner – likely Malaysia Airlines (MAS) – shares part of the risk.

The story is more positive overall at the group’s low-cost subsidiary Jetstar, which posted its largest-ever underlying profit. The carrier is benefitting from increased yields in Australia while its Singapore operation has held up profitably despite its competition, Tiger Airways, not being able to profitably absorb significant capacity increments.

AirAsia X route changes spotlight ownership complexity post MAS deal, but also growth opportunities

13-Jan-12 1:26 PM

Doomsayers will be quick to look at a series of route cancellations from Malaysia-based AirAsia X and proclaim the demise of the modern low-cost long-haul model AirAsia X pioneers. The context for the changes – ending service to London Gatwick, Mumbai, New Delhi and Paris Orly – expands beyond fuel costs, rising taxes in Europe and new visa restrictions in Malaysia. AirAsia X was already struggling in Europe and particularly in India. The recent cross-ownership deal between Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and the AirAsia Group was also clearly a big factor.

That is not to suggest AirAsia X's changes are simply a matter of submission to MAS. The biggest advantage, besides brand awareness, of the high profile London and Paris routes was their ability to put passengers on multiple AirAsia short-haul flights as they travelled around southeast Asia. MAS' deployment of the A380 later this year will lower unit costs to London, narrowing the gap with AirAsia X, currently using more fuel-thirsty A340s. With the AirAsia-MAS partnership, and plans for the two to facilitate passenger transfers, the AirAsia group can still gain feed on its short-haul network while AirAsia X will benefit from redeploying capacity in Asia Pacific and, notably, China.

Air Canada and American Airlines: former Air Canada CEO on the 1980s UK-Canada bilateral dispute

14-Dec-11 9:54 AM

On 30-Nov-2011, CAPA published an article by Chris Lyle entitled American Airlines Goes Broke: Can a National Airline be allowed to Fail?

Here former Air Canada President and CEO, Pierre Jeanniot, offers an alternative view of realpolitik and corrects the record on one of the more contentious bilateral disputes of all time - between Canada and the UK in the 1980s. The Canadian government has not always displayed the protectionist face it does today and in that confrontation, the UK government showed how it too could look after its own in a good old-fashioned tit-for-tat battle. One outcome was that Canada took the extreme step of withdrawing from the 1944 International Air Services Transit Agreement, thus removing British airlines' privileges to overfly Canadian territory en route to the US. Sanity eventually prevailed.

CAPA India Travel Retail Survey: Can Mumbai Airport replicate Delhi’s impressive retail growth?

8-Dec-11 12:48 PM

As Mumbai Airport prepares to issues tender documents for the airport retail concessions at the new integrated Terminal 2 (T2), due for completion in September 2013, we consider the prospects for the airport to replicate the massive growth in retail revenue achieved at Delhi Airport since the opening of Terminal 3 (T3) in 2010. The improved retail performance has resulted from a combination of strong traffic growth and increased spend per passenger as a result of a significantly enhanced retail and food and beverage offer. As we examine in this article, in the case of Mumbai Airport retailers will need to place their primary focus on enticing passengers to spend more as the potential for traffic growth is limited by physical constraints. 

In 2006, the Government of India awarded long term concessions for Delhi and Mumbai Airports to private joint venture operators, who were required to commit significant investment to upgrade and modernise the airports to international standards. Over the last five years, these two airports have delivered substantial improvements to the passenger experience. Delhi Airport built a ‘temporary’ domestic terminal 1D which has proved to be an efficient facility that is liked by both airlines and passengers. This was followed in 2010 by the opening of the flagship T3, integrating international and full service domestic operations under one roof.

India: the world’s fastest growing domestic aviation market

9-Nov-11 9:35 AM

India was the fastest growing domestic market in the world in Sep-2011 with 18.4% year-on-year growth. Traffic growth in the India market exceeded the growth rate seen in China (9.7%) and Brazil (7.5%) in Sep-2011, and was considerably more robust than the global growth rate of 3.8%. India's domestic aviation market expansion has been the strongest in the world, tripling in the past five years, according to IATA, to become the ninth largest aviation market in the world.

Given the strong market fundamentals, the robust rate of growth is expected to continue. IATA forecasts that the Indian civil aviation market will register a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 16% during the period 2010-2013. Looking further ahead, the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation’s Vision 2020 statement envisages a compound annual growth rate of around 15% in the next five years. Investment opportunities of USD120 billion are envisaged up to 2020 with USD80 billion on new aircraft.

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