Rahul Bhatia, promoter of IndiGo, the country’s largest airline by market share, on Saturday said there were plans to induct smalleraircraft to tap the latent potential in India’s growing regional commercial aviation market.
Bhatia, managing director, InterGlobe Enterprises, said the market for regional air connectivity was underserved. “Clearly, there is a market for smaller aircraft. I am not saying it will happen tomorrow. There are plans, but these are not imminent.”
He declined to specify the timeline and whether a separate subsidiary would be established for the group’s proposed foray into regional air connectivity services. “If you ask me if we are interested, probably yes. But it is not immediate. We haven’t decided on the details yet; for instance, if we need a new subsidiary,” Bhatia told Business Standard.
The airline, which is adding an aircraft every month to its existing fleet of about 70 A320s, said it would advance the completion of deliveries of the 100 aircraft it had placed orders for with Airbus to November 2014. By December 2013, IndiGo would have a fleet of 85 A320s.
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