Air India Express makes rapid strides in three years since inception

Air-India Express, the wholly-owned subsidiary of National Aviation Company of India Ltd., (NACIL), has made progress in terms of fleet and network expansion, number of passengers carried, since its inception three years ago on April 29, 2005.
Commencing operations with three leased aircraft, Air India Express (AIE) today has a fleet of 18 B737-800 aircraft – the most technologically advanced single-aisle jet aircraft. By the end of 2009, AIE proposes to have a fleet of 25 aircraft.
While AIE had carried 0.5 million passengers in its inaugural year, 1.8 million passengers travelled on AIE flights in the fiscal ending March 2008. AIE today operates 153 weekly flights between 13 Indian cities viz Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Trichy, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, Lucknow, Delhi and Amritsar and 12 International stations viz Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Al Ain, Salalah, Bahrain, Doha, Colombo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok on the network.
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