New Delhi: IndiGo, India's largest domestic airline by market share, plans to add two aircraft a month to its fleet over the next six months -- beginning next week -- in a bid to beef up its operations and take on rival Tata Sons start-ups AirAsia India and Vistara.
Leased from Tiger Airways, the dozen planes will mark the biggest expansion IndiGo has undertaken in a six-month period since its inception in 2006. The airline has typically added about 10-14 aircraft in a year to its fleet.
"The first ones will start joining from next week," said Aditya Ghosh, president of IndiGo, in an interview.
IndiGo has a fleet of 84 aircraft. Having inducted all 100 aircraft it ordered first in 2006, it sent back 16 that were on six-year term leases -- common for most IndiGo aircraft.
Till October next year, therefore, the airline did not have any aircraft delivery scheduled from Airbus.
21/11/14 AviationPros
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Leased from Tiger Airways, the dozen planes will mark the biggest expansion IndiGo has undertaken in a six-month period since its inception in 2006. The airline has typically added about 10-14 aircraft in a year to its fleet.
"The first ones will start joining from next week," said Aditya Ghosh, president of IndiGo, in an interview.
IndiGo has a fleet of 84 aircraft. Having inducted all 100 aircraft it ordered first in 2006, it sent back 16 that were on six-year term leases -- common for most IndiGo aircraft.
Till October next year, therefore, the airline did not have any aircraft delivery scheduled from Airbus.
21/11/14 AviationPros
