New Delhi: With cash-starved SpiceJet reducing its flights and closing operations to smaller towns, state-run Air India has charted out its plan to make most of the opportunity. It plans to pull out medium-capacity airplanes from metro routes and deploy them on short-haul routes. Besides, its wholly-owned subsidiary Alliance Air would be leasing a total of five ATR72 regional jets to serve smaller cities like Surat and Allahabad.
“We are trying to ramp up our capacity in the domestic market and fill the gap left by SpiceJet. We have decided to deploy bigger airplanes like B777ER and B787 on dense metro routes and take out narrow-body aircraft from there for putting them on regional routes”, a senior Air India official said.
Air India would lease five A320s from China Aircraft Leasing in 2015-16 and deploy them on domestic sectors. Its regional arm Alliance Air would lease three ATRs from GECAS, the world’s largest aviation leasing firm and two from Aviation. An Alliance Air official said that it had received its first ATR out of five planned to be leased.
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“We are trying to ramp up our capacity in the domestic market and fill the gap left by SpiceJet. We have decided to deploy bigger airplanes like B777ER and B787 on dense metro routes and take out narrow-body aircraft from there for putting them on regional routes”, a senior Air India official said.
Air India would lease five A320s from China Aircraft Leasing in 2015-16 and deploy them on domestic sectors. Its regional arm Alliance Air would lease three ATRs from GECAS, the world’s largest aviation leasing firm and two from Aviation. An Alliance Air official said that it had received its first ATR out of five planned to be leased.
04/01/15 Nirbhay Kumar/mydigitalfc.com
