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Bill Southern's avatar

I too, admire Vistara’s self-awareness and honesty. Avis made a career out of proclaiming themselves to be No. 2. So, Vistara can aim to climb 18 spots, and then they’re golden.

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Melvin Durai's avatar

What's interesting to me is that Vistara is mostly competing against other Indian airlines. They could have said "India's top-ranked airline for in-flight entertainment" or something like that.

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Ewan MacTavish's avatar

As a nervous wreck of a flyer, I’m more impressed with who ranks highest in completed safety landing statistics rather than entertainment. Who cares about entertainment? IM FLYING IN THE SKY !!!!! If that’s not enough, bring a book for gods sake.

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Melvin Durai's avatar

In-flight entertainment was a bigger deal in the past -- when we didn't have own devices to entertain us. I try to download short stories and articles that I can read without relying on Wi-Fi.

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Liza Blue's avatar

Marketers have devised many different ways to elevate their products with deceptive statistics - the most deceptive being relative improvements, i.e. some drug lowers your xx risk by 50% - which is basically meaningless if the underlying risk is minimal - think of Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber, commenting on one in a million, "so there is a chance." I applaud Vistara for their unadorned honesty. I came across a restaurant whose singn proudly noted, "we are better than we have to be." That level of honestly is very rare!

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Melvin Durai's avatar

Good point about the drug stats. The Jim Carey meme will live forever!

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