If you fly commercial planes, the likelihood you will be flying a passenger plane built by Boeing or Airbus is very high. The 2 companies dominate the industry and the 2 companies help generate one of the largest portion of export products for the US and France respectively. While other companies make planes, Boeing and Airbus dominate.

In an article by Tim Hepher, Aditi Shah, and Joanna Plucinska of Reuters, the biggest airline in India is going to order 500 more Airbus passenger planes. Indigo has a 56% market share in the world’s 3rd largest avaiation market. IndiGo has ordered from both Boeing and Airbus. IndiGo previously ordered 830 Airbus A320 and the new planes are narrow body A320. IndiGo is in discussions for 25 A330neo or Boeing 787 widebody jets.

IndiGo aims to double its capacity by the end of the decade and expand its international markets. The airline has a codeshare partnership with Turkish Airlines, American Airlines and KLM.

India and China each have a billion people and with more people becoming middle income, planes and the railroads are the choice of travel. China has spent billions on its infrastructure, India is the next country to spend on its infrastructure as people move about in the world.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, most countries want to be similar to the US with a heathy middle income group to support the consumer goods and service. Some countries have all the wealth at the top, but where the middle grows so do goods and services. We all grow up with ideas of what other countries are like and some change for the better and it is important if you own shares in global countries they have a presence in the changing countries. Do you know about the markets you investments do business in? If you are travelling during the summer, you can mix business and pleasure to see how countries are changing – either for the better or what you remember them as.

There are more questions than answers – till the next time, to raising questions.