New Airbus Neos to join IndiGo fleet from Dec

Domestic carrier IndiGo today said the Airbus A320 Neo would begin arriving from December-end and over the next 15 months the fleet strength would be raised to 134 aircraft.
"The Airbus A320 Neos will start coming in from December- end. In the next 14-15 months itself we will see a huge expansion. We are going to grow from about 98 to 134 airplanes," IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh said here today.
IndiGo in August had finalised a USD 26.55 billion purchase of 250 new Airbus A320 Neo
Armed with fleet expansion to 134 aircraft in the next 15 months, IndiGo is planning to begin direct international flights from Kolkata.

"Sometime in the summer, we are planning a direct flight to Dhaka and another to Singapore and Bangkok,"
Our plan is in the next 100-110 days, we should have flight to Srinagar, Chandigarh and Udaipur.
"When we bought the first 100 planes everybody asked where you are going to park the planes. Today we are not only parking planes but flying close to 100 aircraft. The market is growing at 21 per cent year on year for the past several quarters and there is not enough capacity coming in. So, there is a huge opportunity. I do not see infrastructure is an issue," he said.

"We have a robust cadet pilot programme. We generate 25 new junior first officers every month. We create 15 new captains every month. Some of our first junior officers have started becoming captains. We have just moved into a brand new learning facility," he said.