- Indian Airlines/ Air-India: Facing competition from domestic and foreign airlines on the lucrative international routes; it’s already losing trained staff, especially pilots, engineers
- Jet Airways: The first to introduce apex fares and fly international routes, fast catching up with IA; has become the preferred choice for business travellers
- Air Sahara: Has stated that it’ll finalise strategic investor(s) by the end of this fiscal; in an era of cheap fares, it is trying to reduce costs to bolster bottomlines
- Air Deccan: Reinterpreted the low fares scheme with its ‘ticket for Re 1’; now plans to make air travel as cheap as bus services; but needs to improve efficiencies
- British Airways: Will double the number of weekly flights to five Indian cities this winter, and further increase it to 45 next year; also looking at smaller destinations