the problem with Indian aviation, is India, and boils down to three simple factors
1. a monarchy masquerading as a democracy
2. a national culture where no Indian can stand watching another do well
3. a level of unsurpassed greed and thieving which is now accepted as
normal
with these 3, you can fill in the blanks and see why any company or country will be unable to remotely flourish.
1. the nations leaders are mainly crooks who steal, then when they get
caught, go through every trick in the book to show how they are not to
blame. if they are jailed, it is to allow the stealing to go on. and they do
not return a single rupee, and start stealing again.
2. the regulatory body, the DGCA is a piece of undiluted ****. some of the
people running it cannot even read and write, and have never seen a
computer in their life. their sole duty is to sit in their position and make
sure that they make life miserable for all Indians and try to stop progress in a rapidly changing aviation world. fake licences, bribery,pleasing politicians, nepotism......sound familiar???
3. an airline traffic clerk, now the owner of a major airline in India. chance,
hard work, ability?? the only thing which swung it was the bags of cash
sent on a daily basis. btw, the deal in Abu Dhabi is already done with the money proportions already distributed. the civil aviation minister has just returned. what's in the papers is for your consumption.
and the other entity, a clown more interested in his calendar, cars and horses, masturbated by a media comparing him to Branson. the result, you can see the familiar trail of nothing. lets not talk about the national carrier.
4. one of the saddest situations to arise is to see the pilots at Jet refuse to
allow the fellow Indian Kingfisher guys to get a job when they were down.
the Jet guys managed to get wide body expertise, throw out the
foreigners, then turn on their own countrymen. they are on the verge
of payback time.
watch the games the start in the Air Asia start up. the politicians and Delhi
boys will come calling when the time is right. and we will have another joke again.
India will not be a Turkey, Brazil, or Egypt, so sit back and enjoy the ride.
there is no way in the world, with the thin margins in aviation between profit and loss, that any airline will last.