Indian airlines cannot seem to get enough expat CEOs, and they are adding a few more names to the list in the coming days. We recently reported about Air India appointing New Zealand-born Campbell Wilson as its CEO , the…
IndiGo’s chief executive Rono Dutta is expecting his carrier to increase capacity by 40 percent for the coming quarter
News reports out of India indicate that IndiGo, which has had inflight shut-down problems with the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine, may be improperly operating the engines. Go Airlines, the other Indian LCC using the GTF, is not experiencing similar…
India’s IndiGo surprised a few on October 29 by announcing a bumper-order for 300 Airbus A320neo-family aircraft. It is one of the biggest orders with a single customer if you don’t include a similar big deal in 2017 for 430…
The Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan has had a difficult introduction, with several problems on the PW1100G powering the Airbus A320neo. The latest problem involves the aft hub knife edge seal within the high pressure compressor, which has resulted in-flight…
The general sense among many industry observers is that the Pratt & Whitney GTF is having a tough settling in period. The most vocal critics have tended to be from India, where the largest GTF powered fleet of A320neos are…