IndiGo Selects Airbus A350 For Long-Haul Expansion

IndiGo A350 signing

IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers (center) shakes hands with Rolls-Royce’s Ewen McDonald (left) and Airbus sales chief Benoît de Saint-Exupéry.

Credit: IndiGo
India’s largest airline IndiGo is to get its own widebody fleet after signing a firm order for 30 Airbus A350-900s, with an option for 70 more. The order brings the LCC’s total backlog to nearly 1,000 aircraft; IndiGo already has 950 A320neo-family aircraft on order as well as five ATRs, according...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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