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IndiGo Tipped To Place Huge 500 Airbus A320neo Order In Paris Tomorrow

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The order would be the largest single aircraft order in history.

Indian budget airline IndiGo is expected to place a record order for 500 Airbus A320neo family aircraft at the Paris Air Show.

IndiGo already has 477 outstanding aircraft orders from Airbus and is looking to fly further with narrowbodies and expand into the widebody market.

Discussions have been held with Airbus and Boeing about the latter supplying its 787 Dreamliner, although the Airbus A330 has been suggested as the potential contender.

India's IndiGo is tipped to place a huge order with Airbus on the first day of the 2023 Paris Air Show.

According to Bloomberg, the airline is poised to order 500 Airbus A320neo family aircraft tomorrow.

This would give Airbus an impressive start to the week after the planemaker didn't clock any major orders at last year's Farnborough Airshow.

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19 June 2023

India’s IndiGo places record order for 500 A320 Family aircraft

IndiGo, India’s largest airline by market share,
has placed a firm order for 500 A320 Family aircraft,
setting the record for the biggest single purchase agreement in the history of commercial aviation.

The latest agreement takes the total number of Airbus aircraft on order by IndiGo to 1,330,
establishing its position as the world’s biggest A320 Family customer.

The historic purchase agreement was signed by
Rahul Bhatia, Promoter & Managing Director of IndiGo,
Dr. Venkataramani Sumantran, Chairman and Non-Executive Independent Director of IndiGo,
Pieter Elbers, CEO of IndiGo,
Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO,
and Christian Scherer, Airbus Chief Commercial Officer and Head of International,
at the Paris Air Show 2023.

Pieter Elbers, CEO of IndiGo, said,
“It is difficult to overstate the significance of IndiGo’s new historic order for 500 Airbus A320 Family aircraft.
An order book now of almost 1000 aircraft well into the next decade,
enables IndiGo to fulfil its mission to continue to boost economic growth, social cohesion and mobility in India.

At IndiGo, we take pride in being India’s preferred airline for connectivity in and with India;
and by doing so, being one of the leading airlines in the world.
This order strongly reaffirms IndiGo’s belief in the growth of India,
in the A320 Family and in our strategic partnership with Airbus.”

New Delhi-headquartered IndiGo is among the fastest growing carriers in the world.
Since its first A320neo aircraft was delivered in March 2016,
its fleet of A320neo Family has grown into one of the world’s largest with 264 aircraft in operation
(162 A320neo, 79 A321neo, 21 A320ceo and 2 A321 freighters.

IndiGo placed its first order with Airbus in
2005 (100 A320 Family) and again in 2011 (180 A320 Family including the NEO),
in 2014 (250neo Family), and
in 2019 (300 A320neo Family) taking its previous total order book to 830 A320 Family aircraft.