Indigo Airlines Plans to have International Flight Services

Indigo Airlines

India's domestic Low cost carrier IndiGo has evinced interest in launching international services on 15 flight routes from 2011 may,and has submitted a proposal to the Indian aviation ministry towards this end.Indigo is headquartered at Gurgaon and has a 16.8% share in the Indian domestic passenger markets close to meeting the specifications and eligibility for starting International operations as it will complete five years of local operations in August 2011.

Presently IndiGo has in its fleet 32 A320s will be having at least 16 Airbus A320 aircraft by the time it  launches international operations. The sectors identified by the Airlines for the first phase of operations are Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore, Kathmandu, Jeddah, the Maldives, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah thus mostly focussing on the middle east markets and the India's neighboring countries.Further most of the destinations will be connected with New Delhi, Mumbai, Kozhikode, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram besides flights between besides between Chennai and Singapore.

The flights booking for the Middle east regions are always a lucrative proposition as the existing flights are running at an occupancy of 70-80%. Besides Air India, Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways , dedicated airlines such as Air India Express have their successful opeartions in the middleeast region. Emirates airlines is also one of the major airlines having its presence in the flights to India to the Middle east and vice-versa.