IndiGo beats Air India group in international scheduled flights, seats

IndiGo increased its seats from 7.4 million to 8.6 million

IndiGo, which has been expand­ing in a big way abroad, has overtaken the Air India group in the number of scheduled flights as well as seats during this winter schedule (October-March).  

While the airline is grappling with problems in its domestic sector, IndiGo, according to gl­obal aviation analytics company Cirium, has rung up a 14.5 per cent increase this international winter schedule — up to 44,035 flights between October 26 and March 27 next year — over the previous winter schedule (October 27 last year to March 26), when it had 38,481 flights. 

In contrast, the Air India gro­up, which