Whether Keyter is a nutcase or not: the management of AI is clearly made of them.
Figure: geographically blessed with a location between the Far East and Europe as well as Africa, and a huge domestic market, AI has for decades spectacularly failed in cashing in on these favourable preconditions.
More often than not, it appears that the only raison d'etre for AI has been to provide jobs that allow foreign travel (and associated smuggling of luxury goods) to a self-appointed privileged circle of people. Passengers seem to appear as a mere inconvenience on the way. Just try the transit facilities at any Indian airport.