Showing posts with label Aditya Ghosh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aditya Ghosh. Show all posts

IndiGo adds Bagdogra as a destination. New Ahmedabad Mumbai Guwahati flight.

by Devesh Agarwal

India's largest domestic airline is adding Bagdogra as its 30th domestic destination from December 1, 2013.

With its 71st A320 joining the fleet, IndiGo will operate 448 daily flights to 30 domestic and five international destinations.

Flight 6E-434 commences an almost 12 hour duty cycle at 05:45 starting at Ahmedabad to Mumbai to Guwahati to Bagdogra to Kolkata to Bangalore. In reverse flight 6E-433 starts at 11:05 in Bangalore and ends at 23:20 at Ahmedabad.

Thus, the new schedule sees introduction of new daily non-stop flights to Bagdogra from Guwahati and Kolkata. Bagdogra will also be connected to Mumbai via Guwahati, and to Bangalore via Kolkata.

IndiGo will also launch a seventh daily non-stop flight between Delhi and Kolkata and also a daily non-stop flight between Mumbai and Guwahati, offering a same plane one-stop service from Ahmedabad to Guwahati. It is not clear if a passenger can take a two-stop same plane service from Ahmedabad to Bagdogra.

Aditya Ghosh, President, IndiGo said,
“We are extremely pleased about adding Bagdogra as our 35th destination of operations as it is a landmark moment for us. Bagdogra is going to be an important part of our destination network because it holds good prospect for commercial business apart from the region of Darjeeling, Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri. We are committed to providing maximum connectivity from Bagdogra on our network by catering to various segments and we are confident that these additional services will prove immensely popular with our passengers. We are planning to increase the connectivity to and from Bagdogra and expand our operations with additional flights. It is our constant endeavour to provide more flexibility of choice for our customers as IndiGo continues to offer them on time, hassle free and always affordable flying experience.”
Read more »

Video: IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh talks about why some airlines fail and some succeed

by Devesh Agarwal

Aditya Ghosh, President and Executive Director of Indigo Airlines says "Airlines fail because ego comes in the way of wisdom," (a reference to the flamboyant Dr. Vijay Mallya). "As any business matures, not just the airline industry, it tends to move away from the basics. We tend to forget what the customer really needs, versus what the customer really wants."

Ghosh was speaking at the recently concluded NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2013.

Watch this video where he talks about how Indigo has managed to become the largest domestic carrier in India along with being one of the most popular. See his insight in to what will drive growth for IndiGo and the industry in general through the coming year.



Hat tip to Tarun Shukla at FlightDeck India for the lead.
Read more »