VISTARA AIRLINES
"FLY THE NEW FEELING"
The origin of the airline can be traced to the mid-90s when Singapore Airlines and Tata sons ( of the famous Tata Airlines which was instrumental in developping air services in India and whose Air India was nationalised in 1953) established a joint venture where the capital was divided between SIA (60%) and the remain was held with with Tata and sons.
However due to regulatory and political reasons as well as the vociferous opposition of the fledging airlines : Jet Airways, Air Sahara . The project folded in 1997as FDI (Finance Direct Investment ) in Airlines was not accepted . The project was resurrected almost 20 years later in 2012 when the FDI was opened to airlines (maximum ownership 49%). A new joint venture ws formed with SIA holding the 19% and the remaing in Tata's hands. This project gave the opportunity to the Tata family to go back to the first love (aviation).
Asthe Indian market was dominated by low-cost carriers,the new airlines first business plan was to operate as a premium full service company to cater to the demands of the expanding indian business traveler
On August 8, 2014 the name of the new airline was revealed "VISTARA" which means in Sanskrit "limitless expanse "
On Decembr 15,2014 the airline received its Air Oprator's certificate and started operations on January 9,2015 with the first flight from Delhi to Mumbai with a fleet of Airbus A320 seating 8J/24S/126Y . The airine was the first to introduce premium economy seats in the Indian domestic market.
The airline flew initially 3 routes BOM-DEL, AMD-DEL and AMD-BOM.
The network was steadily expanded during the following months to include : Goa and Hyderabad (March 2015) , Pune , Guwahati and Bagdogra (April 2015),Lucknow (May 2015), Bangalore (June 2015) .
In October 2015 the network stoods as follows, 10 destinations and 11406 km length
In November 2017 , total destinations have reached 20 and the network extends to 22492 km
FLEET
The airline operates an all Airbus A320 fleet (13 classic and 3 Neos) and has on order 4 Airbus A320neos
By Venkat Mangudi - flickr.com/photos/venkatmangudi/23429079070/, CC0, Link
The future plan of the company is to acquire wide bodies and to launch International services
VISTARA AIRLINES has an extensive interline agreements with Singapore Airlines, Silk Air, Air France, Qatar Airways, All Nippon Airways ,British Airways, Japan Airlines,FINNAIR,KLM, and Kenya Airways
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