No Tier II cities for Indigo, looks overseas

New Delhi: IndiGo Airlines does not plan to add Tier II and smaller cities to its network and will focus on international operations. The low-cost airline becomes eligible to fly overseas in August 2011 and has already secured an in-principle nod from the civil aviation ministry.
To a question whether IndiGo would look at getting into regional operations since it has been talking of massive fleet expansion and potential in the Indian market, group managing director of InterGlobe (the parent company of IndiGo), Rahul Bhatia, said, “I think Tier I has enough business for us.....there are no plans to go regional for the moment”.
He made it clear that the airline would not deviate from its low-cost model, saying “not in my life time”.
Bhatia said the lowest employee-to-aeroplane ratio and “a lot of focus” on operational efficiency, besides “fairly good” load factors, have helped his airline. Keeping the fleet “simple” has also worked - IndiGo uses only A320 aircraft across all routes in India.
At present, it has 27 aircraft and another 7 would be inducted by December this year. The fleet size would reach the 100 plane mark by 2015-16.
19/08/10 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis

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