Air India CEO: 'The Power is in Our Hands' to Capture Outbound Travel Demand
Photo Credit: Air India CEO Campbell Wilson speaking at Skift Forum India on March 18, 2025. Skift
Skift Take
Will Air India be able to seize the opportunity? While the airline industry is being hampered by a myriad of supply constraints, the airline has a lot of cards it can play.
India is poised to be the fifth-largest outbound travel market by 2027, but will foreign carriers capture a lot of that growth?
"I think the power is in our hands," said Air India CEO Campbell Wilson at the Skift India Forum Tuesday. "As time goes on, more and more of Indian aviation's critical mass will be in India," he added, while acknowledging that aircraft supply constraints will be determined by external partners.
Wilson said the fundamental constraint for Indian aviation in recent years was not deploying more capacity. Local carriers now have more than 1,000 aircraft on order.
Both of the country's major airlines — Air India and
