Fewer jumbo jets on domestic routes are better than lots of smaller planes

It's just that no govt so far has forced airlines to use bigger planes on Indian trunk routes

For the last two weeks, Indian aviation, generally, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. For example, thanks to overcrowding, Delhi and Mumbai, India’s busiest airports, have restricted the number of flights — and the airlines have jacked up fares. As traffic grows, we can expect more of this sort of thing.

Having learnt transport economics at the university and also having worked for two decades as a consultant to an institute devoted to transport, I can say with complete confidence that India’s aviation policy has always been quite unfathomable.

Take the aircraft acquisition policy of India’s several airlines.