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IndiGo may delay its low-cost, long-haul flight plan over high fuel price

The airline is not convinced that it will have a sizeable passenger traffic to make wide body operations profitable

1.2 mn IndiGo seats on sale starting at Rs 1,212; overseas flights included

Bookings under the four-day 'mega anniversary sale' offer begin on Tuesday for a travel period from July 25 to March 30 next year

IndiGo, GoAir find no defects after visual inspections of 50 PW engines

IndiGo and GoAir have carried out "visual inspections" of a total of 50 Pratt & Whitney engines powering their A320 neo aircraft in the last fortnight but no abnormalities were detected, a senior official said today. The visual inspections were done after US regulator FAA issued an airworthiness directive on June 26 to check for possible engine fan hub damage of certain P&W engines. IndiGo and GoAir, operating A320 neo fleet with P&W engines, have been facing engine issues in these aircraft that even forced grounding of many planes. A senior official at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said no abnormalities were found during visual inspection of a total of 50 affected P&W engines. "In compliance with AD (Airworthiness Directive), IndiGo has carried out one time inspection of 34 affected engines and GoAir carried out inspection on 16 affected engines. "No abnormality has been observed with these engines fitted on A320 neos being operated by Indigo and ...

IndiGo loses another top exec after Aditya Ghosh with Sanjay Kumar's exit

The chief commercial officer will put down the pen on July 15 after 12 years at the helm; William Boulter to take over

After Aditya Ghosh, IndiGo's Chief Commercial Officer Sanjay Kumar quits

William Boulter, currently the airline's Chief Strategy Officer, would be taking over from him

IndiGo pilots up in arms over 'foreign hands' at higher salary

The IAF pilots are willing to fly any number of hours, as they are keen to make quick money before they retire

IndiGo asks crew to be sensitive while dealing with unruly flyers

India's largest airline IndiGo has now asked it staffers to take steps to diffuse tension before taking legal actions

IndiGo to fight an aggressive price war despite fall in profit

The company says pricing is not sustainable at current fuel price

IndiGo Q4 profit plunges 73% on higher expenses at Rs 1.18 billion

Revenue from operations rose about 20% to Rs 57.99 billion

IndiGo suffers engine glitches again, forced to ground two A320 Neo planes

The engine troubles hit budget carrier IndiGo again with the airline forced to ground two of its Airbus A320 Neo planes due to technical glitches, according to a source. The two Pratt & Whitney engine-powered A320 Neo planes were taken out of operations on Friday, the source said. IndiGo, which had to ground 11 A320 Neos between February and March this year due to safety concerns, confirmed that it had pulled out two of its planes from the service. The airline further said that the two planes are back into operations now. Significantly, the airline had earlier this month said all its aircraft, which had been taken out of service following directives of the European aviation safety regulator Easa and India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), were back into flying after the change of engines by the US engine supplier Pratt & Whitney. "IndiGo was forced to ground two A320 Neo planes on Friday due to engine glitches. While one aircraft was grounded at ...

Why IndiGo's Aditya Ghosh had to quit firm he nurtured for almost a decade

Plan to replace him was unanimous and followed a tumultuous year of crises that Ghosh masked behind a thick smokescreen

Changes might show results, but IndiGo may still miss 'Captain Ghosh'

Ghosh was swift to respond to the role and kept things at IndiGo running with a few elementary guidelines - low cost, on time, efficiency

Aditya Ghosh to step down as IndiGo Prez, Rahul Bhatia named interim CEO

The company's board, during its meeting today, accepted the resignation of Ghosh, according to a regulatory filing

Govt orders probe into IndiGo passenger offloading after mosquito complaint

Sources said IndiGo is believed to have submitted a report about the incident to the ministry

Govt to probe deplaning of IndiGo passenger who complained of mosquitoes

The passenger Saurabh Rai told media he was forcibly removed from the aircraft by security staff of IndiGo after he complained about the mosquitoes

IndiGo finally relents and decides for partial shifting to T2 from Mar 25

T1 is set to be expanded from the current capacity of 20 million to 40 million passengers per annum

IndiGo cancels 50 flights, GoAir 20 over grounding order on faulty engines

Aviation regulator had grounded 8 IndiGo planes, 3 of GoAir yesterday due to a recurring engine malfunction

Grounding of 11 IndiGo, GoAir planes leaves hundreds of passengers stranded

Hundreds of passengers were stranded across the country today as dozens of flights were cancelled by IndiGo and GoAir after the regulator DGCA grounded 11 A320 Neo planes powered by Pratt & Whitney engines following a mid-air engine failure of an IndiGo plane earlier in the day in Ahmedabad. The airlines, however, did not give any details of the cancellations or the number of passengers hit but said they are making all possible arrangements to minimise the impact. Citing safety of aircraft operations, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said, A320 Neos fitted with PW1100 engines beyond ESN 450 have been grounded with immediate effect. "Hundreds of passengers were stranded after a number of flights were cancelled by both IndiGo and GoAir in the wake of some aircraft going out of operations due to the DGCA order," a source said. According to the source, an aircraft on average operates seven to eight trips a day and considering that 11 aircraft have been ...

IndiGo plans to order as many as 50 Airbus SE A330 wide-body jets

The carrier aims to take the upgraded A330neo version of the plane, according the people, who asked not to be named as the discussions aren't public

IndiGo flight grounded before departure at Pune airport due to engine snag

Another IndiGo Airbus A320 Neo aircraft with Pratt& Whitney engine was grounded today at the Pune airport prior to its departure for New Delhi due to the oil chip detection in one of its engines, a source said. IndiGo, later, operated the flight with another aircraft but in the process it was delayed by more than four hours, according to the source. When contacted, IndiGo refused to comment on the incident, which came close on the heels of another incident involving its aircraft last week, in which passengers had a close shave after one of the engines of a A320 Neo plane failed midair. After the airline operated its Nagpur-Pune flight, IndiGo was forced to ground the A320 Neo plane due to the oil chip detection in engine-2 of the plane, the source said. The glitch-hit IndiGo plane was scheduled to fly to Delhi from Pune. As the aircraft was not airworthy due to the engine failure, the airline arranged another plane later, an A320, to fly the passengers to their ...