Aviation contributes $ 54 billion to Indian GDP or equivalent of 1.5% of GDP. It creates 8 million jobs where one aircraft results in the creation of more than 100 new airlines and one air work results in a wide economy of 6.1 jobs, Mr. Elbers said. | Photo Credit: Neither
With 65% of the world’s population within 5-6 hours of the flying distance from India, the country has the potential to be global air charges and expand its outgoing travel market, said indigo CEO Pieter Elbers on Friday before the main international airline meets in the National capital.
“If you realize that 65% of the world’s population lives within five to six hours of India’s flight, basically we have the opportunity to start building India not only as a point-point goals, but also as a great place to connect,” Elbers said during the press briefing. Indigo is a host airline for the 3 -day summit Association for the International Air Transport Associations from 1 June, with which it will participate in more than 1700. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi also states the address to the event.
“If there could be big knots in the west and east of India, why should we not have it here. So, the opportunity is to really build it forward,” he added.
The playground for building India as a center (or a central transmission connected by passengers between multiple international destinations), a direction in which the Indian government has managed in the last few years, comes at a time when Indigo will enter in early July and London is expected to become at the beginning of July. They have become a copy year that will participate in a copier that will participate in Kopelagen, which should be copied in early July.
In Greece there will be more destinations, such as Athens, and by the end of this year he will add to his fleet to his fleet by the end of this year. The airline will start adding its own brand new wide points since 2027, when the Airbus A350s joins its fleet, allowing it to “opportunity to go anywhere in the world”.
Investments were needed in the infrastructure and aviation industry to carry out the ambitions of the hub, he said, because aviation was “power for good”. Aviation contributes $ 54 billion to Indian GDP or equivalent of 1.5% of GDP. It creates 8 million jobs where one aircraft results in the creation of more than 100 new airlines and one air work results in a wide economy of 6.1 jobs, Elbers said.
In order to strengthen the case in which India would become an air center, Indigo, CEO, said that while the world was still recovering from the impact of Covid-19, India was expected to record 20% more passengers this year than before Covid-19, while Indigo last year compared to 78 million before pandemic passengers.
“There is a huge opportunity as an international outgoing tourism market. There is an unstoppable growth,” Mr. Elbers said.
In India, there is also the potential to expand the airlines, because in India there were only 0.13 flight seats per capita, one fifth of 0.59 seats per capita in China for domestic travelers. On the international front, the seats on the head in India were half China, he said. On Friday, the airline also announced an agreement with Bangalore International Airport Limited (Bial) about building the latest MRO (maintenance repair repair) on 31 acres of land.
Published – May 30, 2025 21:33
