IndiGo plans to offer business class seats on long-haul flights

Plans to offer 30% lower fares aided by its low-cost structure

IndiGo may adopt a two-class configuration in its long-haul routes. The airline plans to offer a small business class along with dense economy seating, and unbundled products like meals, priority boarding and check-in, and seat selection to economy passengers. Long-haul low-cost carriers (LCCs) like Scoot and AirAsia X offer a similar configuration.

"If we expand our operations to include long-haul international routes, we may have to consider full-service flights, business-class seating, code-sharing arrangements," InterGlobe Aviation, parent company of IndiGo, mentioned in its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP), which was filed with the regulator ahead of its proposed share sale.

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