No-frills carrier AirAsia India has joined the league of Airbus A320Neo operators in the country with its first such plane arriving at the New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport from the European aviation major’s Toulouse manufacturing facility on Wednesday, the airline said.
AirAsia India welcomed its first 186-seater Airbus A320neo (new engine option), which arrived in New Delhi on October 21 from Airbus’s production facility in Toulouse, France, the airline said in a release.
Till now, national carrier Air India, Tata-SIA joint venture Vistara and budget carriers IndiGo and GoAir have been operating the fuel-efficient A320Neos along with other types of aircraft.