IndiGo Airlines - status og flåte

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Fant foelgende note i en artikkel i Seattle P-I:

The IndiGo deal alone was worth about $6 billion at list price, Airbus said, as it announced that New Delhi-based travel company InterGlobe Enterprises Ltd. and Indian businessman Rakesh Gangwal were teaming up to start the new low-cost domestic carrier.

Rakesh Gangwal ... ??? Har vi ikke hoert det navnet foer??

Gangwal previously has worked as a senior executive for United Airlines, Air France and US Airways.

Oh yeah, han ja .... kompis av Steven Wolfe og en av gutta som loppet USAirways for millioner av dollar foer de stakk!

"IndiGo is the result of extensive analysis and planning by very experienced airline executives, and we're convinced it will be a successful new player," Airbus CEO Noel Forgeard said.

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.. og Seattle Times har foelgende kommentar:

But Boeing's chief sales executive for India, Dinesh Keskar, questioned the seriousness of the Airbus deals from his part of the world.

All Indian airlines together now have a combined fleet of 165 airliners, Keskar said. And even at that number, the Indian airport infrastructure is strained to accommodate them and there is a big shortage of pilots, he said.

"It's unrealistic for any one entity to fly in India with 100 airplanes," he said. "Where are you going to park them?"

Keskar said that his team had also negotiated with IndiGo, but had refused to sell them so many airplanes in one purchase.

"We told them it didn't make sense for an airline that hadn't flown one flight yet," he said. "We don't think this is realistic."

Another barrier, Keskar said, is that all aircraft purchases in India have to be approved by the government. Keskar said the government would likely withhold approval that would strain the nation's aviation infrastructure.