Originally Posted by
GRDHound
Are you trying to say here that more NK airplanes are going overseas? If so I don't think the article implies that at all. As someone else stated the article says "brand new airplane." That right there says that the airframes are not coming from NK. I know the media has been known to make mistakes once and a while as well, however I don't think that's it's real rational to start assuming that every time a airline that Indigo has it's hand in get a new jet that it's coming from NK.
Now all of this assumes the article is correct, when they claim "brand new aircraft" and they are "A319s". The press can get thing wrong.
I went on Airbus's website
Airbus - Corporate Information - Orders & deliveries and looked up deliveries - there is a large excel sheet you can download with all their order/deliveries/operating.
It shows that Tiger Airways has only A320s on order. They have ordered 66, been delivered 8 and operate 12.
For Spirit, it shows this:
A319 Ordered 24, Delivered 7 and Operate 26
A320 Ordered 20, Delivered 0 and Operate 0
A321 Ordered 0, Delivered 0 and Operate 1
That is of Oct 31, 2008