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

Issue Overview

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?