Can the infrastructure deficit result in a high-tension operating environment?
It certainly can be, yes. But it’s the same travelling to Heathrow. India’s infrastructure deficit is a difficulty for us, like for all other airlines. Air traffic congestion and air traffic control in India are big issues. Same issues are in Europe, by the way. How does India compare with Europe in pace of infrastructure growth? Air traffic is growing much faster than the infrastructure can grow. To build an airport is a 5-10 year investment. You build an airport not overnight but a schedule change for an airline you do overnight and can get capacity within two-three months easily. So if all the airlines are growing at 10-15-20 per cent, the infrastructure will not cope. Everybody has to understand that. It is sometimes difficult to accept. One of the challenges in India is to bring the infrastructure to a point where airlines can grow, where you have the right airports, the right terminals and swell air traffic management. Europe started the process much earlier because there were ma
