Despite the slowdown in the demand for domestic flight services, low-budget airline company IndiGo has announced the launch of six new services. IndiGo Airlines is expected to expand its fleet size by adding five more aircrafts. This decision comes when other private carriers are trimming their services and reducing fleet size to cut costs. “We have had highest load factor (average passengers per available seat kilometer) in the market in the recent time,” IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh said. ” Apart from this other economic performance is such that we have to expand. There is till huge demand for low-fare travel,” he added. He said that IndiGo was getting a lot of traction from every kind of domestic customers, and the new flights would provide even more flexibility of choice for our customers,” he added.
The six new flights IndiGo flights will run on the Mumbai-Goa, Mumbai-Hyderabad, Mumbai-Kolkata, Hyderabad-Mumbai and Kolkata-Mumbai-Goa sectors. IndiGo Airlines, promoted by the travel group InterGlobe Enterprises and industry veteran Rakesh Gangwal, serves 17 destinations with a fleet size of 20 A-320 aircraft. IndiGo flies to Agartala, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Vadodara.IndiGo has hubs in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, and Mumbai. The airline, which has 20 A320-200 airbus, has placed orders for 46 Airbus A320-200, and 30 Airbus A321-200, which it will receive by 2016. IndiGo’s market share was 13.5% in the first quarter of the2009, closely followed bylow-budget airline SpiceJet with 12.1% market share.
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