Indian airports emerging as key transit hubs: IndiGo
Mint in an exclusive interview. “Earlier, the Indian airports were merely destination airports, but today we find a rising trend of people flying from one part of the world and come to Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, and take another onward flight without really exiting into any Indian city. That trend is increasing," Vinay Malhotra, head of global sales at IndiGo, said.
Further, the airline has seen an increase in tendency to transit through Indian airports by Indians as well as foreigners. “Earlier, these hubs existed only outside of India. It is heartening to see that Indian airports are now becoming a hub, we are able to offer seamless connections, our airports are becoming so much better and ability to offer connectivity from a country A into Delhi and after two-three hours of transit time onwards to another country C, the fact that this is happening is a really good thing and a welcome change.
It is adding to our economy, tourism, and trade," he said. IndiGo has seen a higher number of transit passengers who are opting to fly via an Indian city onward to another foreign country such as Dubai-Bangkok, Bahrain-Phuket, Kuwait-Phuket, Sharjah-Jeddah, Dhaka-Riyadh, and Kathmandu-Far East, among other destinations. IndiGo is the biggest airline in terms of market share in the domestic sector and second largest among the Indian carriers—next to the Air India Group—in the international sector to and from India.
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