{"id":585601,"date":"2023-06-20T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585601"},"modified":"2023-06-20T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:23:44","slug":"indigo-will-double-its-fleet-size-by-2030-ceo-elbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-will-double-its-fleet-size-by-2030-ceo-elbers\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo will double its fleet size by 2030: CEO Elbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IndiGo, which placed a historic order for 500 A320s with Airbus on Monday, currently operates nearly 310 aircraft and enjoys an over 60% domestic market share. IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers said the airline will double its fleet size by 2030. <\/p>\n<p>Its large orders help it have a young fleet of fuel-efficient planes through continuous replacements alongside fleet augmentation, a process slowed by current supply chain constraints. <\/p>\n<p>IndiGo\u2019s order book, comprising a mix of A320neo (new engine option), A321neo and A321XLRs (extra-long range), has almost 1,000 aircraft yet to be delivered well into the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IndiGo, which placed a historic order for 500 A320s with Airbus on Monday, currently operates nearly 310 aircraft and enjoys an over 60% domestic market share. IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers said the airline will double its fleet size by 2030. Its large orders help it have a young fleet of fuel-efficient planes through continuous replacements alongside fleet augmentation, a process slowed by current supply chain constraints. IndiGo\u2019s order book, comprising a mix of A320neo (new engine option), A321neo and A321XLRs (extra-long range), has almost 1,000 aircraft yet to be delivered well into the next decade.<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585601","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=585601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}