Hyderabad: India’s high airways IndiGo, Air India and Akasa Air could collectively add 240 plane within the subsequent two years, increasing their fleet dimension by a mixed 30%. At present, the three carriers have a mixed energy of 804, a quantity which can swell to 1,044 by the tip of 2027.
Airways within the nation are anticipated to get a median of 10 plane each month over the following few years, with 80% of them delivered by Airbus and Boeing, high executives of the 2 corporations mentioned. The brand new planes will assist Indian airways increase their fleets, after months of delay and slowdown in route growth plans, each at home and worldwide ranges.
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“India is our fastest-growing market, even quicker than China. In Europe, it’s now a alternative market. So, India is the place the expansion is. And we venture deliveries of two plane every week on a median for the following 10 years,” Jürgen Westermeier, president and MD-India & South Asia, Airbus mentioned on Thursday at Wings India 2026, Asia’s largest civil aviation occasion, held in Hyderabad.
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Airbus has a supply backlog of 1,250 plane over a 10-year interval in India, led by IndiGo and Air India. The IndiGo order is almost 900, whereas that of Air India Group is round 350.
In 2025, Airbus delivered 55 plane in India, all of which went to IndiGo. Practically 7% of its international deliveries have been to IndiGo.
“We anticipate peak deliveries to be at 150 a 12 months,” Westermeir mentioned, doubtless round 2032.
Boeing, then again, mentioned is concentrating on 25 India deliveries in 2026, after an growth at its US amenities.
“On a median, you possibly can anticipate, over the following couple years, roughly two plane a month. And in some months, it’ll be extra, and a few months it’ll be much less, and a few months there’ll be a wide-body plane in there as effectively,” Salil Gupte, president, Boeing India and South Asia instructed Mint.
“It’ll principally be narrow-bodies. Each few months, you’ll have a wide-body in there as effectively,” he mentioned. He clarified that this isn’t a hard and fast month-to-month goal.
The Air India Group—which incorporates full-service service Air India, and no-frills airline Air India Specific—and Akasa Air are Boeing’s largest consumers in India.
The Air India Group has positioned orders for 190 Boeing jets (each slender and vast physique plane). The group took supply of a Dreamliner (wide-body) and Air India Specific took supply of a slender physique earlier this 12 months. The group is anticipating 20-24 plane deliveries this 12 months between Airbus and Boeing. These are customised for the respective corporations.
Air India chief govt Campbell Wilson mentioned at Wings India that his firm has positioned new orders for 30 (slender physique) plane with Boeing. The order confirms choices positioned in 2023. One other 15 of its current slender physique jet orders with Airbus could be upgraded to the long-range slender physique XLRs. The improve to Airbus XLRs will assist Air India faucet abroad markets. It comes weeks after rival IndiGo acquired the same plane being deployed on the Mumbai-Athens and Delhi-Athens routes.
“This extra order for 30 Boeing 737 plane is a part of our broader fleet technique to place Air India firmly for the longer term. Constructing on our 2023 orders and subsequent additions, this order helps regular deliveries and fleet upgrades deliberate over the following few years,” Wilson mentioned.
Akasa, India’s youngest airline and its third-largest participant, had initially positioned orders for 226 plane, all of them with Boeing. It has a pending order of 194 jets from the American plane-maker. It inducted two Boeing jets this month. Two deliveries are anticipated in February.
At current, IndiGo has a fleet dimension of 440, Air India 297, Akasa 32 and SpiceJet roughly 35.
“If plane deliveries are available as promised, these could be among the many largest in latest occasions in India. Whereas Airbus manufacturing is on monitor and deliveries are usually on time, Boeing has ramped up capacities lately after getting approvals from the US regulator,” Mark D. Martin, aviation knowledgeable and chief govt of Gurugram-based Marin Consulting mentioned.