For IT/9W in SIN, as noted above they have long stopovers. I'm not sure about 9W from MAA, but from Delhi, the stopover is still a good 7 hours.

IT I do believe early on in the route was doing very poorly, mainly because they were not being sold by TA. I also think IT can have a big influence on the Indian market in Singapore, if they decide to reschedule their times, to maybe either a double daily or to depart out at 9am or something like that a la Air India. My personal feeling is that IT has a pretty good reputation in Singapore with the likes of SQ and if they can sell fares to not only India but beyond India as well that may work for them, so they can feed off the BLR/DEL/other smaller cities traffic which would have otherwise gone to 9W/SQ.

When I book my flights from Singapore - Delhi, IT looses out because of the overnight connection in Bombay, 9W I also question on the flight timings of 11pm to 2am, that is I do believe too late for connections to Europe and too early for the early morning connections to India, which realistically leaves most passengers with SQ/AI, and AI isn't really a preferred carrier for those who can afford it.

That's just my thoughts on the Singapore India sector, of course we also have to keep in mind that IT/AI/9W although who could be connecting carriers as well are focusing on O+D market, whereas SQ is focusing on the transiting passengers to Australia/USA