Indigo flights will also offer business class service, fares will start from Rs 18,000

Airline company Indigo, which provides affordable airline services, will start business class service on select flights on 12 domestic routes from November 14. Apart from this, the company will also start a customer loyalty program for business expansion.

In a program organized to mark the completion of 18 years of the company, Indigo CEO Peter Albers said on Monday that booking for business class seats will start from August 6. Special food will be offered to business class passengers. A321 Neo aircraft will have 12 business class seats.

Albers said that one-way fares for business class seats will start from Rs 18,018. These seats will be available on the busiest and business routes and it will start with Delhi-Mumbai flights. The company announced the launch of business class service on select routes on May 23 this year.

At present, Tata Group-owned Air India, Air India Express, and Vistara offer business-class seats. IndiGo will start flights to seven more international destinations in the current financial year. Currently, the company operates more than two thousand flights daily to 120 destinations. This also includes 33 foreign cities. This is expected to increase IndiGo's dominance further.

IndiGo has about 61 percent share in the domestic market. The company has ordered 975 aircraft. IndiGo's co-founder and managing director Rahul Bhatia said at the event that he and InterGlobe Enterprises will remain here. He said that the purpose of the recent stake sale was to raise funds for business and general corporate purposes.