{"id":297438,"date":"2019-10-21T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297438"},"modified":"2019-10-21T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:38:09","slug":"china-key-focus-for-indigo-as-it-looks-to-expand-international-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-key-focus-for-indigo-as-it-looks-to-expand-international-network\/","title":{"rendered":"China key focus for IndiGo as it looks to expand international network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has launched services to four destinations in China and Vietnam in the last one month alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are focused on growing our services in China and Southeast Asia, as well as in the Middle East. We see that India-China access is becoming one of the very important set of routes to operate,&#8221; William Boulter, Chief Commercial Officer, IndiGo, told PTI here.<\/p>\n<p>The company inaugurated operations in China with the Delhi-Chengdu service on September 15. Flights on the the Kolkata-Guangzhou route were launched on October 20.<br \/>\nIt is likely to fly to another destination in that country &#8220;early next year&#8221;, the senior company official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking at some of the destinations in China where there is less competitive capacity, like Guangzhou and Chengdu&#8230;&#8221; Boulter said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that IndiGo expects China to be a large contributor to its international network going ahead.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s largest airline with around 50 per cent share in the domestic passenger market, also launched direct flights to Vietnam&#8217;s Hanoi (October 3) and Ho Chi Minh City (October 18) from Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding the carrier&#8217;s presence in the Middle East, IndiGo had inaugurated services in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia from Delhi on October 12, making it the second destination in the Kingdom following Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect near-full occupancy for the new destinations in the next six-eight months, which is the usual gestation period when foraying into new markets,&#8221; Boulter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has launched services to four destinations in China and Vietnam in the last one month alone. &#8220;We are focused on growing our services in China and Southeast Asia, as well as in the Middle East. We see that India-China access is becoming one of the very important set of routes to operate,&#8221; William Boulter, Chief Commercial Officer, IndiGo, told PTI here. The company inaugurated operations in China with the Delhi-Chengdu service on September 15. Flights on the the Kolkata-Guangzhou route were launched on October 20. It is likely to fly to another destination in that country &#8220;early next year&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}