IndiGo, Go First weighed down by grounded planes and engine shortages

IndiGo confirms 30 planes on ground, plots alternate strategies for capacity growth

IndiGo is planning to extend the lease of in-service planes and induct new aircraft on wet lease because supply-chain disruption has forced the grounding of 30 Airbus A320 planes.

Go First, which is facing a similar issue, has increased the utilisation of its operational aircraft to cover up the grounding of its Airbus planes.

Go First is operating fewer flights than it did last winter and is trying to maintain the schedule it filed by increasing aircraft utilisation.

IndiGo, the country’s largest airline, operates a fleet of around 280 planes, which include Airbus A320 (CEO/NEO), A321 and ATR-72 aircraft.

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