IndiGo, Air India, Akasa to add 240 aircraft in two years
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hyderabad: India's top airlines IndiGo, Air India and Akasa Air may together add 240 aircraft in the next two years, expanding their fleet size by a combined 30%. Currently, the three carriers have a combined strength of 804, a number which may swell to 1,044 by the end of 2027.
Airlines in the country are expected to get an average of 10 aircraft every month over the next few years, with 80% of them delivered by Airbus and Boeing, top executives of the two companies said. The new planes will help Indian airlines expand their fleets, after months of delay and slowdown in route expansion plans, both at domestic and international levels. “India is our fastest-growing market, even faster than China.
In Europe, it is now a replacement market. So, India is where the growth is. And we project deliveries of two aircraft a week on an average for the next 10 years," Jürgen Westermeier, president and MD-India & South Asia, Airbus said on Thursday at Wings India 2026, Asia's largest civil aviation event, held in Hyderabad.
Airbus has a delivery backlog of 1,250 aircraft over a 10-year period in India, led by IndiGo and Air India. The IndiGo order is nearly 900, while that of Air India Group is around 350. In 2025, Airbus delivered 55 aircraft in India, all of which went to IndiGo.
Nearly 7% of its global deliveries were to IndiGo. “We expect peak deliveries to be at 150 a year," Westermeir said, likely around 2032. Boeing, on the other hand, said is targeting 25 India deliveries in 2026, after an expansion at its US facilities.
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