Indigo Partners

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Indigo Partners
legal form Limited Liability Company
founding 1996
Seat Phoenix , United States
Branch Finance, investment

Indigo Partners is a US private equity firm specializing in investments in the aviation industry. It is based in Phoenix , USA .

Co-founder Bill Franke is CEO of Frontier Airlines and Wizz Air (since 2004). He was also Chairman and CEO of America West Airlines from 1993 to 2001, Chairman of Tiger Airways in Singapore from 2004 to 2009, and Chairman of Spirit Airlines from 2006 to 2013.

Investments and participations

At the Dubai Air Show in November 2017, Indigo Partners signed a memorandum of understanding to purchase 430 A320neo Family aircraft (273 A320neos and 157 A321neos). 146 aircraft are to go to Wizz, 134 to Frontier, 80 to Volaris and 70 to JetSmart. It is the largest single order to date for the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus . On December 28, 2017, Airbus confirmed the sale.

The portfolio of Indigo Partners includes majority stakes in the US low-cost airline Frontier Airlines and the Chilean start-up Jets Mart . The company holds shares in the Hungarian Wizz Air and the Mexican Volaris .

There is no connection to the Indian airline IndiGo Airlines .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Rottwilm: The man who buys 430 aircraft at once. In: Spiegel Online . November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Business & Marketing Strategy , at www.indigohq.com, accessed November 16, 2017
  3. ↑ Indigo Partners ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2017 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. , from investment-advisors.credio.com, accessed November 26, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / investment-advisors.credio.com
  4. ↑ a b Stephen Trimble: Dubai: Indigo Partners signs MoU for 430 A320neos , on flightglobal.com, accessed November 16, 2017
  5. ↑ Record order for Airbus: investor orders 430 medium- haul jets for 42 billion euros. In: heise.de . November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
  6. ↑ 430 jets sold: Airbus receives confirmation for record order . In: Spiegel Online . December 28, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 29, 2017]).