IndiGo has become the first Indian carrier to have over 2,000 scheduled or planned flights daily. The Rahul Bhatia-founded airline, which started flying on August 4, 2006, had in December 2017 become the first Indian carrier to operate 1,000 flights in a day with the budget carrier taking over 11 years to reach that milestone. The second 1,000 came much faster in just six years despite a fallout between the airline's two founder-promoters and then Covid.