IndiGo is definitely not cutting down on the total number of aircraft in the fleet......
Well atleast not according to publicly available information .
Here is a news article about their 50th aircraft delivery
IndiGo gets delivery of its 50th Airbus A-320 aircraft - Economic Times
Newest aircraft registered is VT-IEZ according to the DGCA database on 23rd of July which was this week
That takes the total fleet count to 60 airframes . You can look it up on the DGCA website under the operator name IndiGo ( 4 aircraft registered under this name )
The rest are registered under Interglobe .
IndiGo website shows official fleet count at 57 aircraft . Should be updated soon........
For a low cost carrier 15 Pilots per aircraft seems to be on the higher side ( typical range 10-15 )
If its true that they maintain 15 pilots per airplane then thats good news for the rest of us .
Delivery plan as mentioned above is for 64 aircraft by the end of the year .
Anyone has the roadmap for upgrading existing first officers to captains ?
I believe this should create more vacancies and hence clear the backlog