Welcome competition from Air India; India big enough to have two mega airlines: IndiGo new CEO

RAS AL KHAIMAH: India is currently witnessing the creation of two mega airlines, with domestic market leader IndiGo on an expansion spree and Tata Group consolidating its four carriers under Air India. IndiGo’s new CEO Pieter Elbers, who took over barely three weeks back, has hit the ground running and tells TOI inn an exclusive interview how the airline will evolve over the coming months in terms of offering a more comfortable product and a larger network. He welcomes the upcoming changes at the Maharaja, saying the 1.4-billion strong India easily has the capacity to have two big airlines. Excerpts:

IndiGo’s existing product on several aircraft needs improvement in terms of passenger comfort. What changes can we expect here?

We have a lot of planes on order at IndiGo. We continue to enhance the product and the difference can be seen in planes that are brand new and the earlier ones. Given toy’s supply chain challenges we will like to hold on to planes and continue using them.