Air India to operate 6 Canadian Regional Jets

New Delhi: The newly-merged Air India would operate six 70-seater Canadian Regional Jets (CRJs) from August after taking them on lease from four global players.
"The CRJs will be operated on thin routes in the domestic sector, which were being identified," the merged entity's Joint Managing Director Vishwapati Trivedi told the media here.
The first of these CRJ-700 aircraft would be inducted in August and the planes would operate as part of the joint fleet of the merged state-owned airline under the Air India banner.
These planes would be in an all-economy configuration and the passengers on the routes operated by them would be offered basic meal services, he said.
Trivedi said an exercise was going on to synergise the route network of the two public sector carriers, which would formally start functioning as Air India from mid-July.
19/06/07 PTI/Economic Times

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