4th new Airbus A320 aircraft delivered to IndiGo

Toulouse (France), Oct 13: Low-fare domestic airline IndiGo today took delivery of its fourth brand new Airbus A320 aircraft from Airbus Industrie.

IndiGo will operate this aircraft to start daily services from Mumbai to Vadodara with a same flight-continuation to Delhi and back, and from Mumbai to Nagpur with a same-flight-continuation to Kolkata and back.

The flights will begin from October 18.

''We are confident that providing customers with affordable fares, on-time flights and a hassle-free experience is a winning formula,'' said airline's president and CEO Bruce Ashby. ''We believe IndiGo has brought new low fare travel alternatives for its customers.'' IndiGo will have six airplanes by year-end and an additional nine next year, taking the fleet size to 15 by the end of 2007. It will serve Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Guwahati, Imphal, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Vadodara with its first four aircraft.

The airline proposes to serve about 30 Indian cities by 2010 with a fleet of approximately 40 A320s.

UNI