IndiGo becomes 1st desi airline to have over 2,000 planned flights daily
NEW DELHI: IndiGo has become the first Indian carrier to have over 2,000 scheduled or planned flights daily. The Rahul Bhatia-founded airline, which started flying on August 4, 2006, had in December 2017 become the first Indian carrier to operate 1,000 flightsin a day with the budget carrier taking over 11 years to reach that milestone. The second 1,000 came much faster in just six years despite a fallout between the airline’s two founder-promoters and then Covid.
The airline has been able to benefit from the tailwind of the fact that India has seen the fastest recovery of air traffic – especially domestic – post the pandemic.
The four Tata Group airlines operate about 1,000 daily with a fleet of 238 aircraft. The break up is: For Air India, 430 daily flights on 118 aircraft; for AI Express and AirAsia India combined, 300 daily flights on 57 aircraft and Vistara (daily flight number awaited from airline) on 63 planes.
