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Breaking: First Indian Airline Which Operates Record 1000 Flights Daily

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Breaking: First Indian Airline Which Operates Record 1000 Flights Daily

Budget carrier IndiGo has become the first Indian airline to operate over 1,000 daily flights across its domestic and international network. Besides, the Gurgaon-based airline has also attained a fleet size of 150 aircraft with the induction of one more A320 Neo plane, it said in a release today. The dual feat was achieved on Friday, it said. Flight 6E 185 from Mumbai to Cochin took off on December 22 at 23.15 pm to become 1,000th flight for the first time in the history of Indian civil aviation, the airline said. IndiGo also took the delivery of its 31st Airbus A-320 Neo aircraft on the same day, which raised its fleet size to 150 aircraft, it said. IndiGo is the second airline in the country with a fleet size of 150 planes after disinvestment-bound flag carrier Air India. ...

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