IndiGo Q4 Results: Profit Rises 62%, Beats Estimates

IndiGo parent InterGlobe Aviation Ltd.'s fourth quarter profit rose 62%, surpassing analysts' estimates, aided by benign crude oil prices and domestic travel surge during Mahakumbh 2025. This marks its first quarterly profit rise this fiscal.

Net profit of the operator of India's largest airline increased to Rs 3,067 crore, according to an exchange filing on Wednesday. This compares with the Rs 2,574-crore consensus estimate of analysts tracked by Bloomberg.

• Revenue up 24.3% at Rs 22,152 crore (Estimate: Rs 21,887 crore).

• Ebitdar rose 50% to Rs 6,817 crore.

• Ebitdar margin stood at 30.8% versus 25%.

• Net profit up 62% at Rs 3,067 crore. (Estimate: Rs 2,574 crore).

The airline's yield, which is the average money earned from a passenger for every kilometre travelled, rose 2.4% to Rs 5.32 per kilometre in the quarter. IndiGo's load factor, or the utilised passenger carrying capacity, improved to 87.4% from 86.4%.

The most valuable airline by market capitalisation in Asia also reported full-year revenue north of $10 billion for the second year in a row in fiscal 2025.

The company, which has more than 400 aircraft, expects its capacity in the first quarter of this fiscal — measured in available seat kilometres — to grow in the mid-teens percentage range compared to previous year.

IndiGo expanded its market share by 10 basis points in April to 64.1%. It will begin its long-haul flights from Mumbai to Manchester and Amsterdam in July using Boeing 787 jets leased from Norway's Norse Atlantic. Both will be thrice weekly services. In a first for IndiGo, the airline will offer complimentary hot meals to all flyers on these flights, which is a departure from its model of paid meals due to non-availability of ovens on board.

Ahead of the quarterly results, shares of IndiGo's parent company closed 0.37%% higher at Rs 5,465.65 apiece on the BSE, as compared with a 0.51% gain in the benchmark Sensex.