India, Oct. 17 -- IndiGo on Friday announced signing a contract with Airbus to buy an additional 30 A350-900 aircraft, doubling the order of its wide-body planes to 60. With the fresh order, the domestic carrier is set to enter the league of wide-body aircraft.

The country's largest airline, which has been expanding its international network, has now the purchase rights for another 40 A350 family aircraft.

"IndiGo, India's preferred airline, signed a contract with Airbus today confirming the conversion of 30 out of its 70 purchase rights of Airbus A350-900 aircraft into firm orders. With this, IndiGo doubles its wide-body order from 30 to 60 Airbus A350-900 aircraft," the airline said in a statement.

The move is in line with the airlin...