New Delhi: Indigo and SpiceJet are in the top-five list of low cost carriers in Asia-Pacific region having the highest number of planes in its services, an analysis by an aviation think tank has said.
It also said that the low cost airlines in the region already have 992 planes and will cross the 1,000 mark this month. The carriers have placed orders for 1,591 planes.
While IndiGo is placed third with 73 planes as on December 2013, SpiceJet is a distant fourth with 56 flights, according to Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation (CAPA).
In the Asia Pacific region, currently there are 47 low cost carriers, including 23 in south-east Asia, 16 in north Asia, six in south Asia and two in Australia.
The year-end analysis by CAPA also showed that the low cost carriers have 15 per cent of the total in-service commercial aircraft, which numbers around 6,800.
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