Air India set to boost efficiency on routes
New Delhi: Tata Group-owned Air India is expected to consolidate its presence and increase efficiency across 100-plus routes, or over 50 origin-destination pairs, to fully utilize the group’s network of four airlines. According to Competition Commission of India’s assessment on deployment of both air traffic and seat capacity for 2022-2023, Air India and Vistara has shared presence in 48 origin-destination pairs, or on 96 routes.
Travel portals data reviewed by Mint reveals that 22 out of these 48 pairs, offer flights by both the full-service carriers, including Mumbai-Trivandrum, Mumbai-Cochin, Jammu-Delhi, Jammu-Srinagar, Delhi-Varanasi, Delhi-Udaipur, Delhi-Patna, besides the metro-metro connections like Kolkata-Delhi, Delhi-Hyderabad, Mumbai-Chennai, Delhi-Chennai, among others. In fact, 11 such overlapping routes in the domestic circuit are shared by at least three airlines from the Tata Group such as AirAsia India, Air India and Vistara, including Bengaluru-Delhi, Mumbai-Goa, Bengaluru-Mumbai, Mumbai-Jaipur, Cochin-Delhi, Bengaluru-Hyderabad, Delhi-Lucknow, Delhi-Pune, Delhi-Guwahati, Delhi-Srinagar, and Delhi-Goa.
Internationally, the CCI’s assessment identified 24 origin-destination pairs with overlapping operations by Air India, Air India Express, Vistara, and Singapore Airlines. An analysis of the airline networks conducted by Mint revealed that 14 of these origin-destination pairs are served by Air India and Vistara.
Besides two route pairs, Delhi-Singapore and Mumbai-Singapore, are operated by a three Tata Group carriers: Singapore Airlines, Air India, and Vistara. The CCI approved the Vistara-Air India merger on 1 September.
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