This article is about an Indian airline formerly called Alliance Air. For the Australian airline, see
Alliance Airlines.
An Alliance Air aircraft landing in
New Delhi
Air India Regional (Hindi: एअर इंडिया क्षेत्रीय) is an Indian airline which was started as a low-cost arm of Indian as Alliance Air (Hindi: अलायंस एयर). As part of Indian's merger with Air India, it was renamed Air India Regional.[1] It operates 357 weekly flights to 25 domestic destinations as a subsidiary of Air India.[citation needed]
[edit] History
The airline was established on 1 April 1996 and started operations on 21 June 1996. It was wholly owned by Indian. The airline was renamed Air India Regional post-merger, its ageing fleet of Boeing 737-200/Adv's were converted to freighters for the new Air India Cargo.
Air India intend to convert the subsidiary into a full-fledged LCC by transferring some of their ex-Indian A320 fleet to them.[2]
[edit] Destinations
As of February 2011, Air India Regional Fleet Consists of the following Aircraft Families (All aircraft are dry leased)
As of February the average age of Air India Regional Fleet is 19.1 yrs.[3]
[edit] Incidents
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 73. 2007-03-27.
- ^ a b Air India A320 for Regional division
- ^ "FleetSize". http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Air%20India%20Regional.htm.
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