All these carriers have been majorly hit by two cost components - aviation turbine fuel (ATF) costs and currency fluctuations.

Another crippling factor was the forex loss, which jumped more than six-times to Rs 416.69 crore from Rs 72.99 crore in the year-ago period.

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This offer is also accessible the airline's partners KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Air France.

The carrier has narrowed its losses and seen average fares rise this year as customers take to its product offering, including a domestic premium economy class.

A Lion Air passenger flight that was going from the country's capital city Jakarta to the city of Pangkal Pinang off the island of Sumatra crashed into the sea on Monday morning.

With crude oil prices reaching new highs and rupee depreciating around 13 per cent against the US dollar since the beginning of the year, the headwinds faced by India's airlines are showing no signs of abating.

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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal had said that it would lead to the emergence of Guwahati as the gateway to South East Asia.

This is despite the domestic format of the scheme failing to yield desired results with almost half of the routes approved in the first phase of the bidding for the scheme still to be launched.