Air India Express in debut flight to Bahrain

Budget airline Air India Express made its first flight into Bahrain yesterday.
It is a subsidiary of Air India, which has been operating seven flights a week to Bahrain.
Air India Express takes over the Bahrain route from Air India and will operate 11 flights a week, with all-economy seats.
A Civil Aviation Affairs (CAA) delegation, headed by Assistant Under-Secretary for Aviation Services Ahmed Nemat Ali, welcomed the first flight.
The inaugural flight was from Mangalore, in southern India and was the first flight to land in Bahrain from the region.
Under the new operational pattern, there will be four flights to Mumbai, five flights to Kerala (four to Cochin , three to Calicut, and one to Trivandrum), and two to Mangalore, said Mr Debesh.
Air India's current fleet of A310s has been replaced by Air India Express' new Boeing 737-800 .
26/03/07 Soman Baby/Gulf Daily News, Bahrain

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