Daily Intelligence
Skift · 25 May 2026
Yatra closed FY26 as its most profitable year in two decades despite Q4 disruption from the India-Pakistan conflict and the Air India crash, and is now doubling down on digitising India's corporate travel market as its next growth engine. Management framed the impact as concentrated in international corporate group travel and MICE rather than core domestic business.
IndiGo and Air India are pulling capacity off international routes affected by the Iran conflict and rerouting costs, and Akasa Air is using the opening to push share gains on domestic and select international sectors. The capacity shuffle is reshaping the near-term seat supply mix Indian OTAs sell against.
The DGCA has ordered inspection of fuel control switches across Air India's Boeing 787 fleet, the same component family flagged after the recent Air India crash investigation. Inspection schedules are likely to take aircraft out of rotation and affect widebody capacity on long-haul routes.
An argument that AI tools are collapsing the traditional handoff between designers and PMs, with each role now able to do meaningful work in the other's territory — prototyping, spec writing, research synthesis. The piece frames the convergence as a net positive that rewards generalists and reshapes hiring expectations.