Indian’s Airbus A320 touches down in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam: State-owned air carrier Indian operated its maiden Airbus A320 flight to Visakhapanam on the Mumbai-Hyderabad-Visakhapatnam route on Thursday morning.
This is the second launch of A320 service to the city as it was only on Tuesday Air Deccan introduced a similar brand new aircraft to Kolkata.
Indian’s station manager here R. Rajasekaran said the advantage of the A320 is that it has more seats – 125 economy and 20 business class seats unlike Boeing 737 hitherto operated in this route. The Boeing 737 has only 119 all-economy seats and there is no business class.
Country’s first low cost airliner Air Deccan is operating A320 to Kolkata by removing the business class seats and making the aircraft of all economy class with increased seating capacity of 180.
13/07/07 Agencies/Siasat Daily

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