The passage to India: What Aegean’s strategic opening in a market of 1.4 billion people means

“The information that the Indian marketplace volition beryllium served successful 2026 with a full of 16 nonstop flights per week by the 2 airlines, AEGEAN and Indigo, means that the existent indirect postulation betwixt the 2 countries tin fundamentally beryllium quadrupled.”

So said AEGEAN Chairman Evtichis Vassilakis yesterday day connected the juncture of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by IndiGo, India’s archetypal passenger-preferred hose and the largest home hose for codeshare flights, to heighten connectivity and supply a seamless question acquisition to passengers of the 2 airlines. IndiGo has already announced its volition to motorboat nonstop flights to and from Athens from aboriginal January 2026. On its part, AEGEAN has besides announced the motorboat of flights to India successful March 2026. IndiGo volition commencement with six play flights to Athens, portion AEGEAN volition motorboat 5 play flights to New Delhi, followed by 3 play flights to Mumbai.

“IndiGo is simply a precise large company, with sizes that marque us… jealous and giddy,” Vassilakis commented. “Two months ago, successful July, we announced the summation of 2 caller Airbus A321neo XLR (Extra Long Range) craft with an adjacent longer range, up to 10.5 hours, to adhd caller longer scope destinations for adjacent year, astir notably India, New Delh,i and Mumbai from aboriginal 2026. What was inactive missing was to find a precise beardown concern successful this country.