DNA: How have you been growing at percentage rates?

Khan: We have become a daily airline. We were four flights a week earlier. We are doing extremely well

Alapatt: 400% growth. Khan: We have done our penetration point, we need to get quality now. Kashikar: Despite all the issues that were currently facing be it the current account or the state of the fiscal deficit or the unemployment levels, the dreams and aspirations of this 1.2 billion is something that will help us to become, or eventually emerge, as a superpower. The question here is not, whether India will (become). The real issue is when would that happen. And thats something that all the tourism boards, and all the airlines, are primarily looking at it in terms of why this market has got a great potential. And everybody is now eyeing this particular market, as growth in the Western and European markets starts dwindling. Everybody is investing his resources into this particular market to see how can we make the more and build our share in this market. Just to share another key statistics in terms of how is the future is shaping up for us. The Indian outbound market in the previous decade that is 2002 to 2011 has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 12.5%. And the UNWTO estimates that this is expected to go up to 50 million by 2020. Now, that makes it almost 15% on a year-on-year basis as compared to 12.5, which weve already achieved. Now, if you look at the GDP growth of India over the past decade, its growing at an average of 8% to 9%. And the next decade it is expected to grow at almost 5% to 6%, is what the estimates are. So the GDP rate is going to grow slower than in the past whereas the travel rate is expected to go much faster.