What difference really has Air Deccan made? Are more people flying?
We have disproved the thinking that it was impossible to change the way people travelled in India. There is a new section of travellers flying now you can see that from the way they speak and dress and dont know how to put on the seat belt. There is a huge population upgrading to air travel, as even our highest fares are 30% cheaper than AC first class. What is the biggest challenge facing the low-cost carrier industry in India? India has a good emerging economy, but if the government does not invest in infrastructure, growth will be slow. The demand is there; funds are there and the government has realised that aviation can no longer be a peripheral activity. Aviation has to be central to government planning or else we will not have uniform economic growth. While other kinds of infrastructure need to be developed parallely, industries will not go where there is no air connectivity. For instance, after the launch of Air Deccan, we have had engineers, doctors, business heads visiting sm
