Indian airlines await the delivery of almost 1,500 aircraft over the next 7 to 12 years. But at half that fleet size today, they often grapple with parking challenges for their aircraft.
Two of the biggest airports - ie, in Delhi and Mumbai - used as hub airports for flight operations by various Indian airlines as well as bases for their pilots and cabin crew, have a combined parking capacity of 364 aircraft for the close to 700 planes among them.
Recent orders of 500 aircraft by IndiGo, on top of its previous order of 480, and 470 by Air India along with a three-digit order by Akasa likely by the end of the year imply that by 2030 end, when a large chunk of these planes arrive, expansion of airport capacity including space for parking these planes will have to keep pace.
