Dubai-bound Air India Express flight returns to Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram: An Air India Express flight, which left for Dubai from here this evening, returned after completing almost half of the journey due to a technical snag.
Flight IX 539, with 152 passengers and six crew members on board, returned to Thiruvananthapuram International Airport after the pilots noticed that the Autopilot was not functioning, airline sources said.
The flight landed at 8.20 pm, they said, adding that the passengers would leave for Dubai later tonight in another flight, the sources said.
29/10/16 PTI/India.com

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Air India Express to launch new routes

Air India Express, the low-cost arm of national carrier Air India, plans to fly between Delhi and the Iranian capital of Tehran from early next year. The airline is in the process of finalising a general sales agent (GSA) and cargo-handling firm before launching flights on this international sector.

The Kochi-headquartered airline serves mostly to the aviation markets in the Gulf & Middle East, South East Asia and other neighbouring countries to tap the huge traffic.

Air India Express CEO K Shyamsunder hoped that the new service will commence from March-April next year. “We are hopeful of getting things done (the launch of flight) around summers,” he said. The airline currently operates 475 services a week to 13 international airports across the Gulf and South-east Asia with as many as 236 flights to and from Kerala. It has a fleet of 22 B-737 planes with 17 of them owned and the remaining on operating lease.
27/10/16 Deccan Chronicle

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Air India Express launches second Singapore route

Air India Express has introduced its second non-stop service to Singapore. On 21 October the LCC began five times weekly flights on the 2,923-kilometre route from Chennai (MAA) using its 737-800s. The route is already served on a daily basis by five other carriers; Air India, IndiGo, Jet Airways, Scoot and Singapore Airlines. Air India Express already operates a daily service between Tiruchirappalli and Singapore. This new service means that the airline now accounts for around 4% of the India-Singapore market, ranking it seventh out of nine carriers; well behind Singapore Airlines (34.3%), Jet Airways (16.2%), Tigerair Singapore (12.1%), SilkAir (11.7%), Air India (10.9%) and Scoot (9.8%).
24/10/16 anna.aero

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Air India Express direct flight in Calicut-Riyadh route by December

Kochi:  Kochi-headquartered Air India Express, the low-cost arm of Air India, will be starting direct flights to Riyadh from the Calicut airport from December 2.

“Kozhikode-Riyadh flight IX-321 will depart Kozhikode at 9.15 am and arrive in Riyadh at 11.45 am local time,” said AIE officials. In the return direction, flight IX-322 will depart Riyadh at 01.15 pm local time and arrive in Kozhikode at 8.45 pm. The services will be operated four days in a week - Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. It will be longest service in the airline’s network.
21/10/16 New Indian Express

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Gold seized from AI express flight

Kochi: Air intelligence unit officials today seized a purse containing nine "gold bar cut pieces", valued at about Rs 31 lakh, from an Air Indian Express flight, which arrived from Sharjah at Nedumbassery International Airport here.
The officials noticed a purse containing some heavy items under a seat of the aircraft and when they searched it, found the gold bar cut pieces, weighing 1035.350 gm, a release said.
07/10/16 PTI/Business Standard

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