Air-India Express is Air-India’s low-cost airline subsidiary that will launch operations on April 28, 2005. Their first Boeing 737 was delivered in February 2005 and operations are likely to start with just three aircraft.
Air-India Express promises to offer trips to the Gulf from India at 25% lower fares than Air India, will operate on a zero-commission basis.
Services
Services are expected to start in April 2005 from the State of Kerala, Delhi and Mumbai to Gulf destinations.
Fleet
Initial plans for the airline fleet included 18 Boeing 737-800W aircraft planned to inducted over 2 years.
Delivery of the first aircraft for Air-India Express took place on 22 February 2005 when new production Boeing 737-86Q (leased from Boullioun Aviation Services ) was handed over. Operations are expected to start with three aircraft and the other two Boeing 737-8BKs are being leased from CIT Leasing .
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