The first of the six Next Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft to be taken on “dry lease’’ by Air India Express (AIE), the low cost carrier of the national carrier, is to join the fleet in March next.
All the remaining Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft will join the fleet by December 2016 and will be deployed to increase frequencies, strengthen the existing network and to expand operations to the Tier II and III cities.
Once the six aircraft are inducted, the strength of fleet of the Kochi-headquartered Air India Express will go up from the present 17 to 23.
The director board of the AIE that met this week in Delhi has given the nod for dry lease. “The routes and deployment of the aircraft is under discussion,” airline sources told The Hindu.
At present, the airline operated 175 weekly flights from various ports in the country to 12 international destinations. The flight from Varanasi, a Tier-II city in the North, to Sharjah was the latest addition in the AIE network.
31/10/15 S. Anil Radhakrishnan/The Hindu
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All the remaining Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft will join the fleet by December 2016 and will be deployed to increase frequencies, strengthen the existing network and to expand operations to the Tier II and III cities.
Once the six aircraft are inducted, the strength of fleet of the Kochi-headquartered Air India Express will go up from the present 17 to 23.
The director board of the AIE that met this week in Delhi has given the nod for dry lease. “The routes and deployment of the aircraft is under discussion,” airline sources told The Hindu.
At present, the airline operated 175 weekly flights from various ports in the country to 12 international destinations. The flight from Varanasi, a Tier-II city in the North, to Sharjah was the latest addition in the AIE network.
31/10/15 S. Anil Radhakrishnan/The Hindu
