For the second year running, IndiGo gets recognised for having the world’s youngest aircraft fleet in 2024.

The largest airline in India, IndiGo, has been recognised for having the world’s youngest aircraft fleet in 2024 by the global aviation intelligence platform ch-aviation. This award comes for the second consecutive year to IndiGo, which has over 100 aircraft fleet categories. 

With an average age of 3.94 years, IndiGo currently has a fleet of more than 300 modern, fuel-efficient aircraft from the Airbus 320 and ATR-72 family, IndiGo says in a press statement.

“We are thrilled to be felicitated as the World’s Youngest Aircraft Fleet 2024 by ch-aviation. IndiGo’s mantra has been to maintain a young fleet of aircraft to ensure reliable and efficient operations while maintaining high levels of fuel efficiency. We strive to integrate sustainable initiatives into our operations, ensuring that we are not only meeting the needs of our customers but also contributing to a better future. We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and mitigating the effects of our operations with our young and efficient fleet,” says Pieter Elbers, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo.

“Ch-aviation established the Youngest Aircraft Fleet Award to recognise airlines worldwide who understand the value and necessity of investing in their fleet, introducing new-generation aircraft that considerably reduce CO2 emissions in the aviation industry and improve fuel economy. IndiGo has been taking giant leaps forward in all these areas, thereby, setting a benchmark for the aviation industry. We honour IndiGo with this award that celebrates the incredible effort,” says Thomas Jaeger, CEO, ch-aviation.

The statement adds that IndiGo is among the 10 largest carriers in the world by daily departures and recently became the first Indian airline to achieve 100 million passengers in a calendar year 2023 and also the first in the country to clock 2,000 daily departures.