budget airline for kerala

**mich** · 14 Jul 06,, 16:11

recently the government of kerala proposed an idea to the central government in Delhi to start a low buget airline to connect millions of malayalee workers living in the persian gulf countries. The central government shot down the idea quickly, because it would cut into one of air indias highly profitable route networks.The average malayalee expatriate in the gulf is currently paying 'an arm and a leg' just to fly on (air-india, air-india express, indian airlines,kuwait airways..etc).the former chief minister of kerala,Oomen Chandy, had stated that the new budget airline would not be a profit making venture but rather an effort to help the people of kerala. Indias civil aviation authorities and central government need to seriously listen to keralas people and its government.

**~~platinum786~~** · 14 Jul 06,, 16:17

it's a good idea, as more people come across money ,more people can afford to travel via air mor epeople want to amke money from them, thus prices come down.

**gilgamesh** · 14 Jul 06,, 17:00

Originally Posted by mich

recently the government of kerala proposed an idea to the central government in Delhi to start a low buget airline to connect millions of malayalee workers living in the persian gulf countries. The central government shot down the idea quickly, because it would cut into one of air indias highly profitable route networks.The average malayalee expatriate in the gulf is currently paying 'an arm and a leg' just to fly on (air-india, air-india express, indian airlines,kuwait airways..etc).the former chief minister of kerala,Oomen Chandy, had stated that the new budget airline would not be a profit making venture but rather an effort to help the people of kerala. Indias civil aviation authorities and central government need to seriously listen to keralas people and its government.

GOI first has to clear Airline Industry of Moslem criminals. Remember, one CEO was executed by Dawood's henchmen.

**Tronic** · 14 Jul 06,, 20:34

Originally Posted by platinum786

it's a good idea, as more people come across money ,more people can afford to travel via air mor epeople want to amke money from them, thus prices come down.

actually travelling by air is much cheaper then travelling by car... for me to go from Patiala to Delhi costs me around 2000 rupees in gas... and Delhi is only about 4 hours away... but going from here to Bombay!!! that is going to cost me around 8 to 9000 bucks easily if I drive... but by air, I can cover the same amount of distance at less time and by only paying around 3000-4000 bucks...

**mich** · 14 Jul 06,, 20:57

Originally Posted by platinum786

it's a good idea, as more people come across money ,more people can afford to travel via air mor epeople want to amke money from them, thus prices come down.

cheaper price would be a very important factor for the state of kerala to start its own budget airline. that is not the only reason. as a malayalee myself living outside india, i would prefer cochin or trivandrum as ports of entry, rather than bombay.

**mich** · 14 Jul 06,, 21:04

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

GOI first has to clear Airline Industry of Moslem criminals. Remember, one CEO was executed by Dawood's henchmen.

a large segment of malayalee muslims in additon to malayalee hindus, and malayalee christians work in the persian gulf countries. a budget airline for kerala would be of an enormous benefit for malayalees.

**Confed999** · 15 Jul 06,, 02:05

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

GOI first has to clear Airline Industry of Moslem criminals. Remember, one CEO was executed by Dawood's henchmen.

There are criminals of all religions, everywhere.

**Ray** · 15 Jul 06,, 04:59

There are criminals of all religions, everywhere.

Religion with criminal intent is what would surprise me.

It is men who are criminals.

**gilgamesh** · 15 Jul 06,, 05:28

Originally Posted by Confed999

There are criminals of all religions, everywhere.

True, but I was referring to cultural aspect of Moslem population in India. They have very little social mobility, either too rich or too poor. Most smuggling(gold) business was dominated by Moslems.

Now it has extended to drugs, murder, extortion, kidnap, political assasinations, Loan 'sharking', money laundering, fronting dummy companies, passport rackets, counterfeiting etc. They disproportionately dominate in these trades and it is not coincidence.

They have this feeling that laws are formulated by a Hindu majority population and therefore are not obliged to follow these laws. People like Mr Azim Premji(India's richest) or President Abdul Kalam(a famous technocrat) etc. are bad moslems, according to them.

**gilgamesh** · 15 Jul 06,, 05:34

Originally Posted by mich

a large segment of malayalee muslims in additon to malayalee hindus, and malayalee christians work in the persian gulf countries. a budget airline for kerala would be of an enormous benefit for malayalees.

True, it would certainly benefit travellers. I was not referring to religion of travellers. But its better to clean up the industry in early stages before it grows into unmanageble proportions. Not everybody should be allowed to open an Airline company in India, 'D' company's control will have to go. Dubai's(and others like Saudi , Bahrain, Kuwait etc) record is awful when it comes security vis-a-vis India. They will only promote their moslem brethen, the likes of Dawood, Tiger Memon etc who are now fat cats in these countries.

**mich** · 15 Jul 06,, 18:31

Originally Posted by gilgamesh

. Not everybody should be allowed to open an Airline company in India,..

in that case air india and indian airlines and the various private airlines in india better improve the level of customer service(as well as airline ticket prices)they are providing to malayalee passengers from the persian gulf countries.

**sox** · 17 Jul 06,, 03:28

Govt has no business running airlines. Period.

**mich** · 17 Jul 06,, 06:22

Originally Posted by sox

Govt has no business running airlines. Period.

weather the government or the private sector in kerala decides to establish an airline for the state of kerala is irrelevant.if no one in keralas private sector is capable of setting up an airline, then keralas govenment must be given the right by indias cenral government a state run airline.the fact of the matter is, keralas persian gulf NRI population needs a airline that will cater to their needs. upto now Air-india, air-india express, indian airlines and various other private airlines do not meet their criteria.

**OrdinaryGuy** · 17 Jul 06,, 06:37

no I absolutely agree. We do no need more state-run airlines.
Give incentives to private players but no government run airlines.

**sox** · 18 Jul 06,, 06:59

weather the government or the private sector in kerala decides to establish an airline for the state of kerala is irrelevant.if no one in keralas private sector is capable of setting up an airline, then keralas govenment must be given the right by indias cenral government a state run airline.the fact of the matter is, keralas persian gulf NRI population needs a airline that will cater to their needs. upto now Air-india, air-india express, indian airlines and various other private airlines do not meet their criteria.

1) State govts in India are not running surplus and there are far more pressing needs (increased spending on agriculture, urban/rural infrastructure, higher education, healthcare) than starting airlines for NRIs.

2) Whats the special criterion that AI, IA and AI express dont meet? All three of them fly to Gulf and AI express is doing that exclusively afaik.

3) How about special needs of NRIs from Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, HP etc etc? Taxpayers might eventually end up paying for 37 parasites instead of just 2 :-).

4) From the decades of experience, we have seen that pvt sector has done a much better job in India than public entities. Gallic approach towards national champions just does not work in India.