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...life's recurring unpleasant moments that Rajiv Mehta, owner of an interior-design company in New Delhi, has come to dread. During Mehta's frequent business trips in India, his flight often approaches its destination only to have the pilot announce that the plane will have to circle the airport for a while-not because there's bad weather or a mechanical glitch, but because of congestion on the ground. Mehta's plight is shared by thousands of his countrymen. Thanks to India's economic prosperity and the booming growth of its airline industry, more Indians are flying today than...
...Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an industry consultancy. Yet due to the air-transportation system's capacity constraints, carriers are being forced to fight for new business by engaging in profit-destroying fare wars. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a special fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices and you've got a recipe for red ink. Analysts put collective losses for Indian airlines at $500 million last year, following a couple of years of robust profit growth...
...without the glamour. Meals have been reduced to peanuts and soda, pillows plucked from under our heads, the warmth of flying gone with the blankets. The industry's perennial woes--high fuel, labor and capital costs--have led to a traveler's hell of airport fees, climbing fares, flight delays and abysmal service...
Skybus, an airline that will make its inaugural flight in late May, hopes to bring this kind of travel within reach of almost every college student’s wallet, bringing to America what bargain-basement air carriers such as Ryanair brought to Europe: transcontinental flights at Fung-Wah prices—or less...
...crossing the Atlantic emits nearly 2,800 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) for each person on board, and USA Today reports that you would have to drive an SUV for a month to emit as much CO2 as a jetliner emits per person on a New York to Denver flight. And because jetliners emit these greenhouse gasses high in the atmosphere, their heat-trapping effect is greatly magnified...