India’s budget carrier SpiceJet by August will receive five of 15 Bombardier Q400s ordered last year. Its Q400 services will start in July.
The carrier will soon announce a base for the turboprops, says CEO Neil Raymond Mills, but he declined to give the location.
An airline official told Aviation Week it was likely the base would be in Delhi or Hyderabad because parking at these airports is less congested than at other facilities.
The airline will also start services to two or three destinations in South Asia this year, “and one of them could be Male in the Maldives,” Mills said. Maldives comprises 1,190 islands, of which 97 are resorts.
Last year, SpiceJet announced it would start flights to Male, but then dropped the idea. Kingfisher Airlines this month will start two flights a week from Delhi and Mumbai to Gan International Airport in the Maldives, 900 km southwest of India.
16/03/11 Neelam Mathews/Aviation Week
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