IndiGo Airlines

IndiGo Airlines
IATA code :	6E
ICAO code :	IGO
Call sign :	IFLY
Founding:	2005
Seat:	New Delhi , India
Turnstile :	New Delhi Mumbai Chennai Calcutta
Home airport :	New Delhi
IATA prefix code :	312
Fleet size:	260 (+ 641 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	goindigo.in

IndiGo Airlines (InterGlobe Aviation Limited) is an Indian low-cost airline based in New Delhi and based at Indira Gandhi International Airport . This has no relationship with the US investor Indigo Partners , which operates the low-cost airlines Frontier Airlines (USA), JetSmart (Chile), Volaris (Mexico) and Wizz Air (Hungary).

history

Cabin of an Airbus A320-200 of IndiGo Airlines

Foundation and first years

IndiGo Airlines was founded in early 2006 by Rahul Bhatia from Interglobe Enterprises and Rakesh Gangwal . Interglobe Enterprises holds 51.12% of the shares in IndiGo. 48% are owned by Caelum Investments LLC .

In June 2005, IndiGo Airlines ordered 100 Airbus A320 Family aircraft (seventy A320s and thirty A321s ) valued at six billion US dollars . The first machine was delivered on July 28, 2006. On June 22, 2011, IndiGo Airlines signed an order worth $ 16.2 billion for an additional 180 Airbus A320 Family aircraft. Of the 180 aircraft, 150 were on the new, modernized Airbus A320neo .

In October 2014, the company signed a letter of intent to purchase another 250 Airbus A320neo aircraft. The contract also includes a letter of intent to purchase another 100 machines of the same type. On August 17, 2015, IndiGo placed the order for another 250 machines from the letter of intent. It is one of the largest orders in aviation history. Up to this point in time, IndiGo Airlines had ordered a total of 430 Airbus A320neo with an order volume of almost 46 billion US dollars. On November 3, 2014, Airbus delivered the last A320-200 to IndiGo Airlines.

In March 2016, the airline was the first company in Asia to receive its first Airbus A320neo. By 2018 IndiGo converted a total of 150 orders from A320neo to A321neo.

In October 2019, IndiGo ordered another 300 aircraft from the A320 family, including 52 further A320neo and 248 further A321neo, the latter including an unknown number of A321XLR. IndiGo has thus ordered a total of 730 aircraft from the A320neo family, 98 of which have been delivered so far (as of November 2019). Some of the A320neo ordered will also replace existing A320ceo in order to keep the average age of the fleet as low as possible.

Expansion to Europe

At the end of 2017, IndiGo Airlines announced that they would start flights to Europe and thus expand their route network. At first they were interested in Air India's long-haul fleet, but later on it was decided to operate these flights with their own aircraft. Since the financial situation of the airline is currently not very good and some permits are missing, a codeshare agreement was agreed with Turkish Airlines . The airline has been connecting New Delhi with Istanbul Airport since March 20th . Travelers benefit from the strong European network of Turkish Airlines and can therefore fly to numerous cities. It is still planned that the European routes will be operated by the company in the medium term.

Destinations

Most of IndiGo's flights are Indian domestic flights. The main hubs are New Delhi , Mumbai , Chennai and Calcutta . In addition, destinations in Southeast Asia are served. Since March 2019, IndiGo has been flying to Istanbul as the first European destination.

fleet

Airbus A320neo from IndiGo

Airbus A321neo from IndiGo

ATR 72-600 from IndiGo

As of May 2020, the IndiGo fleet consists of 260 aircraft with an average age of 5.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats	Average age
Airbus A320-200	121			180	10.1 years
Airbus A320neo	100	232	from 2020 with CFM LEAP	186	2.0 years
Airbus A321neo	14th	384	partly A321LR and A321XLR	222	0.7 years
ATR 72-600	25th	25th		74	1.8 years
total	260	641			5.7 years

See also

• List of airlines

literature

• BI Hengi: Airlines worldwide . 9th updated edition from 2018, Nara, ISBN 978-3-925671-69-2 , p. 180.

Web links

Commons : IndiGo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of IndiGo Airlines (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tushar Srivastava: Surprise! Nearly half of IndiGo foreign-owned. In: Hindustan Times . March 12, 2012, accessed December 11, 2015.
2. ↑ Parisian fireworks display continues . In: airliners.de .
3. ↑ Jens Flottau: Airbus secures record order. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 15, 2014, accessed October 31, 2019.
4. ↑ IndiGo firms up 250 A320neo aircraft - Airbus' largest order by number. Airbus , August 17, 2015, accessed September 1, 2015.
5. ↑ The extraordinary success story of the A320neo. In: The world . August 17, 2015, accessed September 8, 2015.
6. ↑ Tommy Wilkes, Tim Hepher: Record Indigo jet order fails to stem Airbus share slide . In: Reuters . October 16, 2014, accessed September 1, 2015.
7. ↑ Indian Indigo has taken delivery of the first A320 Neo. In: aerotelegraph.com . March 11, 2016, accessed October 31, 2019.
8. ↑ 125 Airbus A321 Neo instead of A320 Neo: Indigo changes to the larger A321 Neo. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. November 10, 2018, accessed on November 2, 2019 (Swiss Standard German). 
9. ↑ A320 Neo, A321 Neo and A321 XLR: Indigo makes Airbus happy with mega orders. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. October 29, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019 (Swiss Standard German). 
10. ↑ Orders and deliveries. Airbus, accessed November 13, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Indian low-cost airline: Indigo puts Europe plans on hold. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. January 23, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2019 (German). 
12. ↑ IndıGo İstanbul Havalimanı ile Avrupa'ya açılacak. Retrieved January 26, 2019 (tr-TR). 
13. ↑ goindigo.in - Route Map ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed September 1, 2015. 
14. ^ IndiGo Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. May 18, 2020, accessed on May 19, 2020 . 
15. ↑ 280 Neos from Indigo get motors from CFM instead of Pratt & Whitney. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .