IndiGo Colombo bound

Ravi LADDUWAHETTY

IndiGo Air, the latest entrant to the domestic civil aviation space in India, is expected to commence its first international flight to Colombo soon, SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry sources told Daily News Business yesterday.

Currently, IndiGo has a fleet of only one type of aircraft, the A320-200, which has a capacity of 180 passengers. The airline would be delivered 30 Airbus A321-200s, with a seating capacity of 220 passengers each.

Based in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, the low cost carrier took off its inaugural flight from Delhi to Imphal (via Guwahat), on August 4, 2006. Inter Globe Enterprises, a renowned travel corporation, is the owner of IndiGo. The airline is targeting those people, who are looking for affordability, punctuality, hassle-free processing and a comfortable journey by air.

The first Airbus of IndiGo - A320 - was delivered to the airline, on July 28, 2006. The airline received six aircraft in 2006. It increased the number of aircraft to 15, when it was delivered nine more, in 2007. As many as three parking lots were assigned to the airline, in Indira Gandhi International Airport (Delhi) and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (Mumbai), recently.

Currently, IndiGo covers as many as 19 destinations in India, which include Hyderabad, Guwahati, Patna, Delhi, Goa, Ahmadabad, Vadodara, Bangalore, Cochin, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Imphal, Bhubaneshwar, Jaipur, Chennai, Agartala, Lucknow and Kolkata.