India's largest airline IndiGo said it has placed an order for 500 Airbus A320 Family aircraft, the biggest-ever single aircraft purchase by any airline with Airbus and this eclipses Tata-owned Air India's record 470 aircraft order set in March.

• InterGlobe Aviation, the parent company of IndiGo, had earlier got the board's nod to order 500 Airbus aircraft, a deal that is estimated to be worth some $50 billion at the most recently published Airbus list prices.
• The purchase agreement was signed on June 19 at the Paris Air Show 2023 in the presence of V. Sumantran, Chairman of the Board the presence of V. Sumantran, Chairman of the Board of IndiGo, Pieter Elbers, CEO of IndiGo, Guillaume Faury, CEO of Airbus, and Christian Scherer, Airbus’ Chief Commercial Officer and Head of International.