FDI in aviation to boost ailing industry, says Antique

Aug 7
09:50

2012

Ramyasadasivam

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Jet Airways as well as SpiceJet came up with good performances in the first quarter of FY13.

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Jet Airways as well as SpiceJet came up with good performances in the first quarter of FY13. Vikram Suryavanshi of Antique Stock Broking is quite happy with the quarterly results of these two companies and feels it is important to watch how they maintain yields and load factor. If they successfully manage these,FDI in aviation to boost ailing industry, says Antique Articles there would be a strong case for rerating the industry, Suryavanshi told CNBC-TV18.

Suryavanshi believes foreign direct investment (FDI) in aviation will help the ailing aviation sector to boost its balance sheets. Moreover, the government's role in introducing policies favouring the sector will have a positive impact on the ailing companies.

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Below is the edited transcript of the interview on CNBC-TV18.

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Q: Take us through the key parameters or maybe a comparison between the performance of Jet and SpiceJet. How do you think both of them did operationally and which one do you think came out with a better performance this quarter?

A: We have seen very strong improvement in the first quarter operational numbers. We have seen  almost 33% growth in Jet's domestic revenue while SpiceJet's revenue growth is 55%. In terms of growth rates, SpiceJet has really done well and even been able to improve its market share from 14% to around 18.6%.

In terms of load factor also SpiceJet has done around 80%. If you look at Jet, domestic load factors are around 75%. Both have improved but, I think SpiceJet has operationally done really well and even in terms of EBITDA margin which used to be in single digits, it has moved to almost  18-19% and it is really encouraging. 

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