CAPA India regularly shares research and analysis through webinars across a diverse range of critical issues, based on global best practices and benchmarking.


  • The Outlook for Dual Airport Systems in India

    The Outlook for Dual Airport Systems in India

    January 29, 2024

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  • Supply Chain Challenges & their Impact on Indian Aviation

    Supply Chain Challenges & their Impact on Indian Aviation

    December 14, 2023

    Key topics discussed

    • Do regulators need to play a greater role in the certification of new products or platforms?
    • Are aerospace supply chains ready to fulfil delivery demand in the near future, given the current geopolitical-economic scenario?
    • Should OEMs bring airline customers on-board as risk-sharing partners for new aircraft programmes?
    • What lessons do other industries have for aerospace OEMs in mitigating supply chain risks?

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  • Impact of Mega Carriers

    Impact of Mega Carriers

    November 28, 2023

    Key topics discussed

    • Impact on Air India and IndiGo in terms of access to people and infrastructure
    • Impact of two dominant carriers on industry competition, dynamics and profitability
    • Steps Indian airports, MROs, ground handlers, regulators, policy makers and competition authorities need to take to prepare to handle these mega carriers
    • Impact of emergence of mega carriers on innovation across the sector
    • Key systemic risks that are likely to emerge as a result of the presence of mega carriers

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  • Fundamental Review of Indian Airline Profitability

    Fundamental Review of Indian Airline Profitability

    October 11, 2023

    Key topics discussed

    • Financial performance of Indian airlines before COVID-19 (FY2010–FY2019)
    • Detailed review of drivers of revenue, including passenger revenue, cargo, ancillaries and load factors
    • Detailed review of drivers of key cost items such as fuel, employees, aircraft ownership, maintenance and overheads
    • Impact of currency and ATF prices on industry financials
    • Benchmarking of the performance of Indian carriers relative to global peers
    • Assessment of how several foreign airlines achieved record profits after the pandemic

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  • Aviation Policy for a USD20 Trillion Economy by the 2040s

    Aviation Policy for a USD20 Trillion Economy by the 2040s

    March 23, 2023

    Key topics discussed

    • Policy review and learnings from 5 leading global markets
    • Evolution of the aviation policy in India since deregulation
    • Review of sector-wise policy and associated challenges
    • Recommendations for a policy roadmap to enable growth
    • Positioning India as a leading, progressive and modern aviation system

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  • Prospects for Airport Hubs in India

    Prospects for Airport Hubs in India

    February 1, 2023

    Key topics discussed

    • Key success factors for an aviation hub
    • Possibility of Indian metro airports becoming global hubs
    • Position of Indian carriers to be able to create genuine hubs
    • Role that other stakeholders, such as governments and tourism, need to play
    • Ways in which India and Indian aviation can gain from the development of hubs
    • CAPA India’s proposed framework for aviation hub development

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  • Strategic Restructuring & Turnaround of Airlines

    Strategic Restructuring & Turnaround of Airlines

    January 1, 2023

    Key topics discussed

    • Reasons successful airlines sometimes find themselves in situations that call for restructuring/turnaround
    • Always internal or is it external factors that lead an airline to such a situation
    • Ways airlines can avoid being in such situations
    • Reasons for the failure of the majority of restructuring and turnaround attempts
    • Some key factors that lead to positive outcomes

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  • Making Airline Planning Strategic to Success

    Making Airline Planning Strategic to Success

    December 1, 2022

    Key topics discussed

    • Common pitfalls in the current approach to planning
    • Ways in which airlines can overcome planning in silos
    • Secret sauce to planning
    • Ways to make airline planning more effective and agile
    • Reasons for divergence of business outcomes significantly from plans
    • Possibility of airlines’ plan for a VUCA world

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  • A New Approach to Airline Frequent Flyer & Loyalty Programmes

    A New Approach to Airline Frequent Flyer & Loyalty Programmes

    November 30, 2022

    Key topics discussed

    • Understanding the key differences between loyalty and frequent flyer programmes
    • Evolution of frequent flyer programmes in the last four decades
    • Reasons for loyalty programmes becoming so valuable over time
    • Architecture of a modern loyalty programme
    • Learnings for Indian airlines from global best practices
    • Future of airline loyalty
    • Roadmap for Indian airlines to create successful loyalty programmes

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  • Optimising Airline Maintenance & Engineering

    Optimising Airline Maintenance & Engineering

    October 19, 2022

    Key topics discussed

    • India’s standing in the global MRO market
    • Ways in which the size and scope of MROs in India has impacted the maintenance strategies of Indian carriers
    • True cost of maintenance for Indian carriers relative to what is reported
    • Ways Indian airlines could have reduced maintenance expenses
    • Global best practices that could be adopted by Indian carriers
    • Projected growth of demand for maintenance services in India over the next 10 years
    • How the MRO ecosystem needs to evolve to better support Indian carriers

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