Since the Tata takeover, India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation has repeatedly fined Air India over safety and other regulatory violations, including an Rs8mn ($95,000) penalty last year for exceeding flight duty time limits. At home, it is competing in a near-duopoly with IndiGo, which has been boosting its international long-haul routes.

SINGAPORE] Shares of Singapore Airlines (SIA) dived on Friday (Jun 13) morning after an Air India plane bound for London crashed on Thursday. Read more at The Business Times.

Air India, having recently emerged from decades of financial and operational upheaval, now faces an intensely sobering moment. These six points explain