IndiGo, India's largest airline by fleet size and market share is expecting its fleet to double from over 350 planes currently to 600 by 2030.
Speaking about the airline's capacity expansion, CEO Pieter Elbers claimed that no other airline is the world is inducting one aircraft every week like IndiGo.
"What IndiGo is doing today, inducting a plane every week, is something I'm not aware of any airline in the world actually must be doing that. And having the crew ready, having the training ready, we have our own training center where we train 2,000 people a day and having the spares ready," Pieter Elbers said adding that IndiGo is in a formidable position to deal with the challenges.
The airline has an outstanding orderbook of around 1,000 narrow-body planes including the 500 aircraft order placed in June 2023.
Widebody planes & longer route flights might need two or three-class configuration offering customers the choice of business and first class as well.
That could change the airline's long-practiced business strategy.
So, will it still be cost efficient?
IndiGo CEO says narrow-body planes will continue to remain the foundation of its business.
"Today we operate around 350 planes. By 2030, we will be operating in the range of 550 to 600 aircraft. That's a single aircraft, I don't think there's many airlines in the world running an operation of that size as a single aircraft type. So that's the very core and the very foundation of the network of IndiGo today...clearly A350 is not the same as A321. But it is very much building on that very same family. And clearly our relationship with Airbus today is already deep and well developed. And there's obviously similarities in a lot of elements there. So I think we will continue to have synergies in areas around the cockpit crew, around methodologies," Elbers said.
Speaking about the airline's capacity expansion, CEO Pieter Elbers claimed that no other airline is the world is inducting one aircraft every week like IndiGo.
"What IndiGo is doing today, inducting a plane every week, is something I'm not aware of any airline in the world actually must be doing that. And having the crew ready, having the training ready, we have our own training center where we train 2,000 people a day and having the spares ready," Pieter Elbers said adding that IndiGo is in a formidable position to deal with the challenges.
The airline has an outstanding orderbook of around 1,000 narrow-body planes including the 500 aircraft order placed in June 2023.
One of the reasons that has kept IndiGo much ahead of competition is its operational strategy having a single aircraft fleet and single configuration that makes it cost efficient as compared to other airlines.
Widebody planes & longer route flights might need two or three-class configuration offering customers the choice of business and first class as well.
That could change the airline's long-practiced business strategy.
So, will it still be cost efficient?
IndiGo CEO says narrow-body planes will continue to remain the foundation of its business.
"Today we operate around 350 planes. By 2030, we will be operating in the range of 550 to 600 aircraft. That's a single aircraft, I don't think there's many airlines in the world running an operation of that size as a single aircraft type. So that's the very core and the very foundation of the network of IndiGo today...clearly A350 is not the same as A321. But it is very much building on that very same family. And clearly our relationship with Airbus today is already deep and well developed. And there's obviously similarities in a lot of elements there. So I think we will continue to have synergies in areas around the cockpit crew, around methodologies," Elbers said.
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