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Monday, 29 September 2014

AirAsia India kept out of Federation of Indian Airlines

According to a report by Saurabh Sinha in The Times of India, AirAsia India has been kept out of the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), a joint forum of Indian carriers, despite applying for membership twice. The FIA is a joint forum of Air India, Jet Airways, IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir.

"We have not even been invited to join FIA. No one has even replied to our letters," Tony Fernandes, CEO, AirAsia Group, said. Mittu Chandilya, CEO, AirAsia India Pvt. Ltd. (AAIPL), said, "I myself wrote twice on this issue. I don't know why we haven't even got a reply. We are an Indian company, owned 51 per cent by Tata Sons. Our management team is Indian."


Being denied entry into the club of Indian airlines, thereby treating AAIPL as a foreign airline, is just one of the issues that Fernandes is bitter about.
Read news in full 26/09/14 Travel Biz Monitor

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