Induction of 44 new aircraft by India’s largest airline IndiGo — the highest delivered to any single airline by French manufacturer Airbus in 2020 across the globe — and a three-fold increase in number of dedicated air freighters to 20 ensured that India’s fleet strength number bucked the trend of aviation industry’s poor performance in a year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. As per information provided in the Economic Survey for 2021-22, tabled before Parliament on Friday, the total fleet strength of Indian carriers increased to 713 as of November 2020, compared to 669 as of March 2020.
This was in variation with most major indicators such as passenger traffic, cargo tonnage, deployed capacity and airline revenues, which buttressed the fact that 2020 was the worst year for the aviation sector in history.
Induction of 44 new aircraft by India’s largest airline IndiGo — the highest delivered to any single airline by French manufacturer Airbus in 2020 across the globe — and a three-fold increase in number of dedicated air freighters to 20 ensured that India’s fleet strength number bucked the trend of aviation industry’s poor performance in a year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. As per information provided in the Economic Survey for 2021-22, tabled before Parliament on Friday, the total fleet strength of Indian carriers increased to 713 as of November 2020, compared to 669 as of March 2020.
This was in variation with most major indicators such as passenger traffic, cargo tonnage, deployed capacity and airline revenues, which buttressed the fact that 2020 was the worst year for the aviation sector in history.
31/01/21 Pranav Mukul/Indian Express
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