IndiGo
IndiGo at a glance
IndiGo carried 123.4 million passengers in the year to March 2026, more than any airline in Asia and enough for roughly 64% of India's domestic market, the highest share any carrier holds in a major aviation market anywhere. Built on the Ryanair playbook, one aircraft family, brutal punctuality, sub-30-minute turnarounds, it has crossed 440 aircraft with nearly a thousand more on order, the largest backlog in commercial aviation.
The airline is now attempting the hardest trick in the industry: turning a domestic low-cost giant into a global carrier. Its 2030 plan targets 550 aircraft and 200 million annual passengers, with 60 A350-900s arriving from 2027 for long-haul routes, even as the December 2025 operational crisis and the March 2026 resignation of CEO Pieter Elbers showed how thin the margin for error has become.
Fleet
IndiGo runs an almost pure Airbus narrowbody operation, A320neo and A321neo by the hundreds plus ATR 72 turboprops on regional routes, and holds the largest order book in aviation history after its record 500-aircraft A320-family order of June 2023.
| Aircraft | Role | Fleet Size |
|---|---|---|
| Airbus A320neo | Domestic backbone (with remaining A320ceo) | ~280 |
| Airbus A321neo | Higher-density trunk routes | ~150 |
| Airbus A321XLR | Long-thin international routes, deliveries from 2026 | 69 ordered |
| Airbus A350-900 | Long-haul growth aircraft from 2027 | 60 ordered |
Hub & route network
Delhi is the largest base in a network built on frequency and density: more than 2,200 daily flights across 95+ domestic and 45+ international destinations, with Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad as major secondary bases. Long-haul began cautiously with wet-leased 787s to Europe in 2025, and the airline has already shown it will trim routes that underperform.Alliance & partnerships
IndiGo belongs to no alliance, but unlike the purest low-cost carriers it has built a web of codeshares that feed its Indian network, including Turkish Airlines, Air France-KLM and Qantas, a pragmatic layer on top of an otherwise direct-sales model.Group structure
InterGlobe Aviation Limited, listed in Mumbai, operates the single IndiGo brand; co-founder Rahul Bhatia's InterGlobe Enterprises remains the anchor shareholder, and Bhatia stepped in as interim CEO after Pieter Elbers resigned in March 2026 following the December 2025 cancellation crisis.Full specifications
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Frequently asked questions
IndiGo carried 123.4 million passengers in the year to March 2026 with a fleet past 440 aircraft, holding around 64% of India's domestic market, and its 2030 plan targets 550 aircraft and 200 million passengers a year.
It has begun to: wet-leased Boeing 787s opened European routes in 2025, the first of 69 A321XLRs arrived in January 2026, and 60 Airbus A350-900s are due from 2027.
No. IndiGo operates outside the alliances but maintains codeshares with carriers including Turkish Airlines, Air France-KLM and Qantas.