Indigo

India’s Nine-Year-Old Prodigy: IndiGo is already its nation’s largest domestic airline… and its most profitable

Indigo

India’s Nine-Year-Old Prodigy: IndiGo is already its nation’s largest domestic airline… and its most profitable

March 2016
1 min read
Seth Kaplan

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Talk about child prodigies. It’s not even 10 years old, and IndiGo is already the largest domestic airline in the world’s second most populous country, commanding roughly a third of the entire market. Oh yeah, and it makes money too, and has throughout its meteoric rise. How did this obscure youngster from Delhi rise so far, so fast?