IndiGo has received
approvals from the government to add another 400 planes in its fleet by 2025.
Till 2025, the total addition will be 550 of this airline as the company is
planning to get into cross-border ventures. IndiGo is India’s largest carrier
in terms of passengers flown and have a plan to add 550 aircraft within a span
of a decade. This move is considered as the biggest-ever fleet induction in the
history of Indian aviation. However, the airline has already inducted 12 of
those new planes in its fleet.
This carrier company has
always surprised the market with its impeccable Domestic Flight Booking India
services as well as a huge order book. It comes into the aviation business in
2006 with an order for 100 Airbus A320s.
This was followed up with
an order for a further 180 in 2011 and another order of 250 aircraft last year
with an option of 100 more. The airline had in May 2010 received approvals to
import 150 planes (out of 180 ordered in 2011) and has imported 12 of these
till this month.
According to a senior
civil aviation ministry official, “The current approval is to import 400
aircraft by 2025, which is over a ten-year period. The airline had applied in
December 2014 for permission and has received inprinciple approvals for the
same,"
An Indigo spokesperson
also confirms the above statement and said that the approvals include 30 planes
from the 2011 order and 250 planes ordered last year, with options to raise it
to 350 if the need arises.
With such huge orders, the
airline will feed the Indian domestic market as well as contemplated for the
cross-border joint ventures.
