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IndiGo makes aviation history in India, hits record 900 daily flights

Jet Airways operates 650 flights daily and SpiceJet flies 343 flights daily

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Aneesh Phadnis Mumbai
An IndiGo Airbus A320 aircraft operating as 6E 756 between Bhubaneshwar and Chennai created a record on Friday. This was the airline's 900th daily flight, the most by any Indian airline.

IndiGo is the country's largest domestic airline with 40 per cent of the market share. IndiGo's flights are nearly equal to the combined operations of Jet Airways and SpiceJet.

Jet Airways operates 650 flights daily and SpiceJet flies 343 flights daily. Air India and its subsidiaries, Alliance Air and Air India Express, operate over 520 daily flights.

Having added 24 planes in the financial year 2016-2017, the highest capacity addition

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