Key Points
That was in 2017 when he flagged off the first Rs 2,500-an-hour flight from Shimla as part of the UDAN scheme that aimed at putting small towns on India's aviation map and making air travel affordable for the lower middle class...
Today, with 149 airports, 517 air routes and 1.5 crore fliers, India's aviation sector is one of the fastest growing in the world..
The risky and highly demanding business of flying in India has ensured that the aviation sector is dominated by two big entities, IndiGo and the Tata Group, while smaller airlines struggle to stay afloat..
Any airline in the world which doesnt fly to a remote airport will be able to tie up with us to provide last mile connectivity to their customers on a single ticket, Chacko said, adding that except IndiGo and SpiceJet, no Indian airlines had a fleet of smaller turboprop aircraft and can be a potential partner...
The second one is to keep things brutally simple and stick to the basics and do them extremely well and not try to reinvent the wheel where not necessary, he said.. Chacko is inspired by airlines like Indigo and Air Arabia which created a simple standardized business model and executed them to perfection and just kept doing it day in and day out with surgical precision and no changes in the plans..
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