Jet Airways's uncertain flight path

As the country's once premier airline completes 25 years of flying, aviation industry questions where it is really headed

It’s fair to say that there are two or three players in the Indian aviation space who remain quite a mystery to everyone in the sector. To cite a few instances: what exactly does Go Air stand for and where is it headed? What is Air Asia India attempting to do? Old timers will remember the same question being asked about Sahara Airlines. It was never quite clear what it stood for.

Jet Airways — which took to the skies in 1993 — was the country’s premier private airline. Jet redefined service standards and showed people that flying could indeed