Aanya Kapoor

Aanya covered the travel beat at Economic Times for five years before going independent in 2024. Her coverage included the long, complicated Air India consolidation, the Akasa launch, the slow modernization of the Indian airport infrastructure, and the broader question of why Indian aviation grows faster than the rest of the world expects and never quite the way the rest of the world predicts.

She writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, one to two pieces a month focused on Indian airports, the carrier landscape, and the realities of family travel in a country where the vast majority of flyers are flying for family rather than business. Her beat is the gap between international perception of Indian aviation and the actual current state.

She lives in Bandra West, flies BOM constantly, married to a current Air India captain on the narrowbody fleet, and tells her foreign colleagues that the Air India lounge at DEL is now genuinely competitive with Singapore Airlines, which she means as an observation rather than a boast.