The airline said that the execution of this international expansion is an integral part in IndiGo’s strategy of moving across new frontiers under CEO, Pieter Elbers,
India’s largest airline IndiGo has set its plan in motion to expand aggressively on international routes and will now fly to Africa and Central Asia with 174 new weekly flights between June and September of 2023.
The airline will also launch connectivity to North America via codeshare partnership with Turkish Airlines. It currently offers connectivity to 33 destinations in Europe via Istanbul under the codeshare partnership.
“As part of the codeshare partnership with Turkish Airlines, IndiGo will soon be offering connectivity to North America closing final regulatory approvals,” the airline said.
Codeshare flights allow one airline to market the flights operated by another. The arrangement enables fliers to access a broader range of destinations. When booking a ticket, it will be issued under the flight number of the chosen carrier, even if the actual operation is carried out by a different airline.
The airline will connect Nairobi, Kenya and Jakarta, Indonesia, with direct flights from Mumbai in late July or early August. Simultaneously, it will connect Delhi to Tbilisi in Georgia, to Baku in Azerbaijan, to Tashkent in Uzbekistan, and to Almaty in Kazakhstan from August onwards.
The execution of this international expansion is an integral part in IndiGo’s strategy of moving across new frontiers under CEO, Pieter Elbers, who joined the airline ten months ago after a long stint as head of Netherlands’ flag carrier KLM, the airline said.
It will also resume daily services from Delhi to Hong Kong in August after a three-year hiatus.
“….will help us expand our footprint across four continents with Africa and Central Asia being penetrated for the first time. With this expansion in our network, we will now be directly touching 32 international destinations (up from 26), next to our 78 domestic destinations,” Elbers said.