IndiGo upgrades 125 orders of A320neo jets for a bigger sister model

For Airbus, it's another boost for an aircraft that is eating up much of a market that Boeing wants to try capture with its potential upcoming NMA

Airbus SE's latest monthly order tally signaled a big change for India’s IndiGo. The planemaker’s biggest customer for the A320neo is upgrading 125 of its existing orders for the narrowbody’s bigger sister model.

Indigo, one of the few Indian carriers with enough cash to aggressively expand, has been mapping out a way to build a long-haul, low-cost business taking passengers from places like New Delhi to London, with a stop in, say, Istanbul. It’s been weighing whether to place an order for Airbus’s A330neo or Boeing Co.’s 787 wide-bodies, but the bigger narrowbodies it just converted to could help satisfy that