Air India`s low-cost arm to fly limited domestic routes

New Delhi: Air India Express, the low-cost international subsidiary of Air India (the new carrier being formed by merging Air-India with Indian Airlines), has finalised plans to fly limited domestic routes in the southern and eastern sectors.
Starting this October, Air India Express will fly Cochin-Chennai, Cochin-Hyderabad, Cochin-Bangalore, Bangalore-Chennai, Chennai-Kolkata, Hyderabad-Kolkata and Kolkata-Agartala.
"These services will be point-to-point domestic services and not seamless operations to international destinations. We have plans to start daily services on the Cochin-Bangalore-Chennai route later," said an official spokesperson.
The airline already has 11 weekly domestic flights from Calicut (3), Cochin (3), Chennai (3) and Delhi (2) to Mumbai. These are operated to fill empty seats enroute to an international destination or after a routine maintenance stop. The new southern and eastern sectors will increase the number of domestic flights to 50.
24/07/07 Anirban Chowdhury/Business Standard

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