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New Delhi: IndiGo has signed a mega deal with Airbus. Under this deal, IndiGo will buy 500 new aircraft from Airbus. Airbus has also issued a statement regarding this deal. It has been said in this statement that the order of 500 aircraft is the largest order ever in the history of their commercial aviation.
The statement further said that after the latest agreement, the total number of Airbus aircraft ordered by IndiGo has now gone up to 1,330. Along with signing this mega deal, Indigo has also broken Air India’s record of buying new aircraft.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of IndiGo’s new historic order for 500 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, Airbus quoted IndiGo chief Peter Albers as saying. With an order booking of nearly 1000 aircraft for the next decade, IndiGo will now be further equipped to fulfill its mission of promoting economic growth, social cohesion and mobility in India.
“This will provide IndiGo a further steady stream of deliveries between 2030 and 2035. This 500 aircraft order is not only IndiGo’s largest order but also the largest-ever single aircraft purchase by any airline with Airbus,” a statement from IndiGo said.
In February, after its acquisition by the Tata Group, Air India had signed a 470-aircraft deal with Boeing at a price of $70 billion. At the time, its chief Campbell Wilson had said it was a move meant to “transform the fleet and power significant network and capacity expansion”.
With its fleet of over 300 aircraft, IndiGo is currently operating over 1.800 flights a day and connects 78 domestic destinations and over 20 international destinations. It also has orders that are yet to be delivered, taking up the current strength of its fleet to 480.
