The Covid-19 pandemic brought the travel and aviation sectors on its knees through most of last year, but Indian airlines like IndiGo NSE -1.89 %, Vistara and AirAsia India used the time to induct new planes and replace older ones, ensuring an increasing number of aircraft in the country by 21 to 649 in December 2020 from 628 the same period in 2019.
This increase is lower than 2018, when airlines added about 100 panes and in 2019, when airlines added 29 aircraft, which was despite Jet Airways – with a fleet of 100 – shutting operations.
