IndiGo to operate London direct on wide-body aircraft: CEO
Saurabh.Sinha@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:18.11.2019
IndiGo will not have one-stop flights to Europe and will operate those routes as direct services using the recently ordered Airbus A321 XLR (extra-long range) and wide-body aircraft. The low-cost carrier (LCC), which last month ordered 300 A320 Neo family single aisles worth about $33 billion (₹2.34 lakh crore), says ordering widebody aircraft is on the cards to operate routes like Mumbai/ Bengaluru-London, which the A321 XLR cannot fly.
While the wide-body product would have a business class, IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said single-aisle aircraft, including the XLRs, would not offer inflight entertainment (IFE) and hot food. Instead, the airline was looking at minor changes for the narrow bodies in terms of slightly better cushioned seats and a wider food variety.
“Deliveries of the A321 XLRs begin from 2023-24. This aircraft can fly nonstop to western Europe but can’t do London (or other destinations in UK) nonstop, apart from maybe Delhi. When we launch London, we will look at places like Mumbai and Bengaluru also. For that, we will need wide-body aircraft, which are certainly not ruled out by the recent 300-aircraft order,” Dutta, or Rono as he is known in the industry, said.
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Saurabh.Sinha@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:18.11.2019
IndiGo will not have one-stop flights to Europe and will operate those routes as direct services using the recently ordered Airbus A321 XLR (extra-long range) and wide-body aircraft. The low-cost carrier (LCC), which last month ordered 300 A320 Neo family single aisles worth about $33 billion (₹2.34 lakh crore), says ordering widebody aircraft is on the cards to operate routes like Mumbai/ Bengaluru-London, which the A321 XLR cannot fly.
While the wide-body product would have a business class, IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said single-aisle aircraft, including the XLRs, would not offer inflight entertainment (IFE) and hot food. Instead, the airline was looking at minor changes for the narrow bodies in terms of slightly better cushioned seats and a wider food variety.
“Deliveries of the A321 XLRs begin from 2023-24. This aircraft can fly nonstop to western Europe but can’t do London (or other destinations in UK) nonstop, apart from maybe Delhi. When we launch London, we will look at places like Mumbai and Bengaluru also. For that, we will need wide-body aircraft, which are certainly not ruled out by the recent 300-aircraft order,” Dutta, or Rono as he is known in the industry, said.
Full report on www.toi.in
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