A significant expansion of IndiGo’s international network for 2026 was announced by the Indian low-cost airline on May 30, 2025.
At least ten new international routes will be added within the next 12 months, bringing the number of international destinations operated by IndiGo to 50, the airline’s CEO Pieter Elbers declared. The announcement was made at a press conference ahead of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which IndiGo is hosting in Delhi on June 1-3, 2025.
While some of the new destinations had already been announced, such as Mumbai (BOM) to Manchester (MAN) and Amsterdam (AMS), already set to commence in July 2025, others have come as a surprise.
IndiGo is planning to expand its European footprint with nonstop flights to London Gatwick (LGW), Athens (ATH) and Copenhagen (CPH) and will also spread its wings in southeast Asia, adding Siem Reap, Cambodia (SIA), as well as in Central Asia, a region where it will be adding four new destinations, including the reactivation of services to Almaty (ALA) and Tashkent (TAS).
Capacity will also be increased on key international routes such as Tbilisi, Georgia (TBS), Denpasar Bali (DPS), Indonesia, and Ho Chi Mihn City (SGN) and Hanoi (HAN), Vietnam.
In its own home market, IndiGo will start operations at Hindon (HDO) and Adampur (AIP). It also plans to operate at India’s two new large airports currently under development to serve the country’s two largest metropolises, namely Noida (NDX), near Delhi, and Navi Mumbai Airport (NMI), as soon as these become operational. In fact, IndiGo expects to be the first airline to operate out of the latter airport.
To support this growth, IndiGo is counting on the progressive build-up of its fleet. The airline is currently receiving approximately one new aircraft per week and, with the current delivery schedule in place, it expects to operate a fleet of 600 aircraft by 2030.
IndiGo is also damp-leasing six Boeing B787 aircraft from Norse Atlantic Airways for its long–haul expansion. These aircraft will serve as a stopgap solution until 2027, when IndiGo starts receiving the first of the 30 Airbus A350 aircraft it has on order. These aircraft, together with the single-aisle Airbus A321XLRs which IndiGo is also due to receive shortly, will form the backbone of IndiGo’s long-haul fleet.
In parallel to this, IndiGo also announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore International Airport Ltd. (BIAL) to create a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) center at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (BLR). This facility, for which 31 hectares of land have been allocated, will be capable of servicing both the carrier’s narrow-body and wide-body fleets.