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India’s IndiGo close to 500 A320neo Family order - report

IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi International) is reportedly edging towards a deal to acquire as many as 500 A320neo Family aircraft from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac), unnamed aviation industry sources told news agency Reuters on the sidelines of the IATA World Air Transport Summit in Istanbul this week.

The European manufacturer is the frontrunner in the potential agreement, but Airbus and Boeing (BOE, Washington National) are still competing in separate talks to sell twenty-five widebodies - A330neo or B787s - to the same airline, the sources said.

According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, IndiGo Airlines’ fleet is dominated by Airbus jets, with hundreds more of them already on order. It currently operates 165 A320-200Ns with 175 more of the type on order, twenty-one A320-200s, eighty-four A321-200NX with 237 more on order, two A321-200(P2F)s, and thirty-nine ATR72-600s. It also has sixty-nine A321-200NY(XLR)s to be delivered. In addition, the carrier is wet-leasing in three B777-300(ER) widebodies from Turkish Airlines (TK, Istanbul Airport).

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