By Freny Patel ( December 15, 2025, 00:23 GMT | Comment) — India’s early-December aviation collapse has sparked calls to probe IndiGo for abuse of dominance. Yet the deeper issue is how merger control allowed such extreme market concentration — and why the Competition Commission of India and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation let competitive capacity wither long before the crisis.Is IndiGo guilty of abusing its dominant position or are India’s regulators now confronting the consequences of their short-sightedness in allowing a “monopoly at 35,000 feet”? Those questions are top of mind following the latest crisis to grip the country’s airline sector….
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