Showing posts with label IndiGo Airlines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IndiGo Airlines. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

Indian air market to grow even more

IndiGo Airlines indicates better market prospects despite huge losses, poor yield and overcapacity posted by major countries’ carriers. Its latest agreement for the new aircraft appears to illustrate confidence in the Indian Market. While Airbus and Boeing affirm by saying that India is still among the strongest of air traffic expansion over the next two decades.

IndiGo is a low-cost Indian carrier, operating domestic air service with linking more than 25 destinations across the country. Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is the main base of IndiGo. The airline began services in 2006 with Delhi-Imphal flight.

The airline also stays outside the spell of carrier-consolidation, including Jet Airways and Air Sahara, Kingfisher Airlines and Air Deccan and Air India and Indian Airlines, as sought to counter economic pressures.

Now, India’s low-cost carrier,IndiGo, is among the carriers set to take advantage of Indian threshold. The airline is also planning to fly on international routes.

Airbus predicts domestic Indian traffic volume at 9.2% a year. The overall figure is expected to exceed 250 trillion revenue passenger-kilometres by 2029, and is further added that from India to China, South-east Asia and North America would be the fastest-growing flows.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

IndiGo to buy 180 A320s

India’s low-cost carrier, IndiGo Airlines, has placed an order for 180 A320 aircraft at an estimated cost of $15.6 billion. This is the single largest order for jets in terms of volume to be ever placed by any commercial airline in the civil aviation industry. IndiGo Airlines is planning to receive 100 of the A320 Airbus by 2016.

IndiGo is a Gurgaon-based carrier with its main base at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. The airline operates domestic service that connects more than 14 destinations, including Agartala, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Nagpur, Pune and Vadodara. IndiGo Airlines started operations with Delhi-Imphal flight on August 4th, 2006.