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IndiGo and Air India may move their flights, but Adani’s two-airport strategy will depend on whether foreign carriers with complex connecting networks follow.
A softer timeline gives Adani time to close many gaps. If it doesn’t, summer may bring the same pushback.
Navi Mumbai says it has capacity, infrastructure, a transit hotel, a road network to reach the airport. What it needs now is international passengers.
The safety case for Terminal 1 is credible, but the plan also happens to give Navi Mumbai the international traffic it needs. Whether that's coincidence or design, airlines will keep asking.
India is looking east to solve a problem that has been forcing its airlines to fly west the long way around.
Tewolde Gebremariam has plenty to fix at Air India. His first townhall shows he understands the brief.
India wants to break the airline duopoly. It now has to decide whether giving airport operators a seat in the cockpit is the way to do it.
The final conclusions of the investigation have yet to be published, although more could become apparent in the coming days.
