Largest-ever deal: IndiGo orders 500 Airbus A320 family aircraft worth $50 billion
NEW DELHI: IndiGo co-founder Rahul Bhatia on Monday made history by placing the largest order ever by an Indian airline — for 500 Airbus A320 family single aisle aircraft — at the Paris Air Show where exactly 18 years ago he had ordered the airline’s first 100 A320s.
Worth almost $50 billion at list price, though IndiGo would have got a hefty discount thanks to the scale and the airline’s impeccable credentials, the latest order is also the largest-ever single aircraft purchase by any airline globally with Airbus.
India’s largest budget airline has 480 planes yet to be delivered from previous orders which will be delivered end of this decade.
