Air India Regional
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| Air India Regional अलायंस एयर |
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Callsign ALLIED |
| Founded | 1996 | |
| Hubs | Indira Gandhi International Airport | |
| Alliance | Star Alliance (joining 2008 with Air India) | |
| Fleet size | 15 | |
| Destinations | 24 | |
| Parent company | Air India | |
| Company slogan | Your Palace in the Sky! | |
| Headquarters | New Delhi and Mumbai | |
| Key people | Capt. Mehbub Butt | |
| Website: http://www.airindia.com | ||
Alliance Air (Hindi: अलायंस एयर) was a low-cost airline based in New Delhi, India. It operates 357 weekly flights to 44 domestic destinations and was a subsidiary of Indian Airlines. Its main base is Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. Following the merger of Indian Airlines with Air India the airline's 737-200 aircraft were withdrawn from service and the airline was renamed Air India Regional.[1]
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[edit] History
The airline was established on 1 April 1996 and started operations on 21 June 1996. It is wholly owned by Indian Airlines.[1] The future of this airline remains undecided, because Indian the parent company, is considering converting five Boeing 737-200 aircraft of Alliance Air into freighters. With the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines now complete [2], Air India Express and Alliance Air, are due to integrate their operations next month, with this the Alliance name is expected to be eliminated [3]. The airline was renamed Air India Regional post-merger, and the 737's were converted to freighters for the new Air India Cargo.
[edit] Destinations
Alliance Air operates services to the following scheduled domestic destinations[citation needed]: Agartala, Agra, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bagdogra, Bangalore, Bhavnagar, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dimapur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Khajuraho, Kolkata, Leh, Lilabari,Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Port Blair, Raipur, Rajkot, Shillong, Silchar, Tezpur, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam.
[edit] Incidents
- 60 people were killed when Alliance Air Flight 7412 crashed near the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport in Bihar, India.
- 9 people were killed (6 on board and 3 on the ground) when Alliance Air Flight from Lakshadweep Islands to Thiruvananthapuram crashed into Naval Air Hanger in Cochin in Kerala, India on July 29, 1998.
[edit] Fleet
The Air India Regional fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November 2007):[1]
- 2 ATR 42-300
- 3 ATR 42-320
- 1 Bombardier CRJ-700 (Ex-Styrian Spirit, first CRJ-700 in India)
- 1 Dornier 228 (Ex-Indian Airlines)
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-03-27, p. 73.
- ^ "Air India-Indian Airlines merger finally completed", Flightglobal.com, 2007-08-30. Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
- ^ "Air India-Indian Airlines merger finally completed", Flightglobal.com, 2007-08-30. Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
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