{"id":11681,"date":"2014-05-24T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11681"},"modified":"2014-05-24T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T16:25:00","slug":"budget-carrier-airasia-plans-to-expand-operations-into-india-in-2-to-3-months-executive-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/24\/budget-carrier-airasia-plans-to-expand-operations-into-india-in-2-to-3-months-executive-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget carrier AirAsia plans to expand operations into India in 2 to 3 months, executive says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11682\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11682\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Mehdi Nazarinia \/ Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Mehdi Nazarinia \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Asia\u2019s leading budget carrier, AirAsia, is hoping to begin operations in India in two to three months, the airline\u2019s CEO said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier this month won court approval to operate in India after delays because of domestic airlines\u2019 opposition.<\/p>\n<p>AirAsia India will begin flying with two planes, Tony Fernandes, AirAsia group chief executive officer, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a market of 1.2 billion people, airlines in India are unprofitable due to high costs and cut-throat competition. But Fernandes says AirAsia has studied the market for a long time and \u201cwe feel moderately optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He spoke in Manila where he attended the World Economic Forum on East Asia.<\/p>\n<p>He said with a new government in place, a wave of optimism and a strengthening rupee and stock market, \u201cit\u2019s a good time to be in India.\u201d Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi is to be inaugurated on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a billion people there, how strange if we can\u2019t make it work,\u201d Fernandes said.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the optimism, he said the carrier will start with only two planes and \u201cwe\u2019re just going to dip our toes, we won\u2019t sink our whole body there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Asia\u2019s leading budget carrier, AirAsia, is hoping to begin operations in India in two to three months, the airline\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-travel","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}