{"id":396438,"date":"2021-01-21T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T03:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396438"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T03:40:43","slug":"indigo-tightens-grip-in-india-and-targets-growth-abroad-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-tightens-grip-in-india-and-targets-growth-abroad-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo tightens grip in India and targets growth abroad amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s IndiGo has emerged as one of the world&#8217;s biggest airlines by capacity, aided by a swift recovery in the domestic aviation market to nearly 80% of pre-pandemic levels and the financial strength to boost market share as rivals struggle. <\/p>\n<p>The airline is now the world&#8217;s seventh biggest by capacity and the largest outside the United States and China, according to data firm OAG. It is a rare bright spot in a battered global aviation industry, providing a lifeline to squeezed lessors and aircraft manufacturers by paying bills on time and in full. <\/p>\n<p>IndiGo took 44 planes from Airbus SE last year &#8211; the most of any customer and topping Delta Air Lines Inc and China Southern Airlines Co Ltd &#8211; as it replaced older planes with more fuel-efficient newer models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s IndiGo has emerged as one of the world&#8217;s biggest airlines by capacity, aided by a swift recovery in the domestic aviation market to nearly 80% of pre-pandemic levels and the financial strength to boost market share as rivals struggle. The airline is now the world&#8217;s seventh biggest by capacity and the largest outside the United States and China, according to data firm OAG. It is a rare bright spot in a battered global aviation industry, providing a lifeline to squeezed lessors and aircraft manufacturers by paying bills on time and in full. IndiGo took 44 [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396438","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=396438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}