B737-800 for Air India Express

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 16 Mar 2005, 13:51

Walk in interviews:arrow: AirIndia invites Pilots qualified on B737-700/800/900

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Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 18 Mar 2005, 06:41

AirIndia Express takes off on April 29th, 2005

To start-off Air-India Express plans to fly to 4 international destinations - Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat and Salalah, with service from 5 Indian cities - Calicut, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai and Delhi.

Future plans include flights to Bahrain, Bangkok, Doha, Kuwait, Kuala Lumpur, Sharjah and Singapore. In India, plans are afoot to introduce flights from more Indian cities such as Chennai.

The official website

About AirIndia Express

Destinations

Contact AirIndia Express In India

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 18 Mar 2005, 10:40

Does Air-India Express offer any special offers such as a frequent flyer program?

No, Air-India Express does not offer a frequent flyer program.

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 18 Mar 2005, 10:42

Business Opportunities & Career Section on

Air India Express

http://www.airindiaexpress.in/Corporate.asp

The URL takes you back to the home page. I think they are adding and upgrading content

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 18 Mar 2005, 10:54

Source & Copyright

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 18 Mar 2005, 10:58

Press Release By Boeing

Picture from the Boeing Site

Mighty · Post by **Mighty** » 18 Mar 2005, 11:08

Very nice picture!!

vivek0072 · Post by **vivek0072** » 18 Mar 2005, 20:09

Good post, think Air India should also shed its age old livery(the only airline which has its livery unchanged till now) and go in for something like this, and why did Air India start a low cost airlines, they could have promoted Alliance Air.

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 19 Mar 2005, 18:05

vivek0072 wrote:Good post, think Air India should also shed its age old livery(the only airline which has its livery unchanged till now) and go in for something like this, and why did Air India start a low cost airlines, they could have promoted Alliance Air.

Welcome to Luchtzak, Vivek0072
Thank you for the compliment of a good post. Let me address your queries one by one.

I think AirIndia :rock: because of its livery. The AIRINDIA logo both in ENGLISH & HINDI give it a very distinct image and advantage. Many people are nostalgic about the colour and yes the saggitarian. It has earned itself the status of being a Maharaja of the skies.

AirIndia started AirIndia Express because it wanted to operate a low-cost airline and deploy most of its premium services to Europe, UK, USA and beyond. It may be noted that most of the aircraft AI has will get free and many other routes can be deployed and additional alloted slots still be used in current destinations. Also the pricing factor makes a lot of difference. AirIndia has announced that the fare to Sharjah will be Rs.6500/- which on AirIndia would have looked as if the airline is stepping down. So i think that AI by starting AIE has made a good start and yes, a sensible move.

And Alliance Air is a subsidiary of Indian Airlines not Air India. So to promote the same is a decision which Indian Airlines has to take and not Air India. (It could be possible that IC does give it some of its routes)

Please be updated that Air India Express will be taking to skies in April 29th 2005. There will be a fleet of 14 Boeing 737-800s, which will be taken on dry lease in three phases. These aircraft will have 181 Economy Class seats in single class configuration. The new airline will operate 63 flights per week when six aircraft are inducted on dry lease at the time of the launch. With the induction of four more aircraft, effective winter 2005, Air India Express will operate 38 additional flights, and add another 26 flights in the third phase effective April 2006, when four more aircraft will join the fleet. Thus, within a year of operations, Air-India Express will operate a total of 127 flights with 14 aircraft to destinations in the Gulf and South-east Asia.

All Air India Express flights in the first phase, operated on Quick Turn Around (QTA) basis, will cover three online points in Kerala, Delhi-UAE/Oman and Chennai-Singapore/Kuala Lumpur. In the second phase, Air India Express will operate daily flights on Chennai-Dubai, twice-daily flights on Delhi-Dubai and Chennai-Singapore sectors. In the third phase, flights will be operated between Kerala, Mumbai and Doha/Bahrain; between Kerala, Mumbai, Chennai and Kuwait; and between Kolkata/Guwahati and Bangkok.

vivek0072 · Post by **vivek0072** » 20 Mar 2005, 04:41

Perfect and thank you....

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 20 Mar 2005, 20:24

You are welcome. Once again to the world.

Air India Express can be seen more up and closely at their website on www.airindiaexpress.in

brakes_78 · Post by **brakes_78** » 22 Mar 2005, 17:38

Nice Post Advisor. You seem to be an Air India Fan.

Also for everyone. The Flight Search and Schedule is working and now operational on

http://airindiaexpress.in/air/ScheduleSearch.asp

Alistairbastian · Post by **Alistairbastian** » 23 Mar 2005, 23:30

The livery on AIR EXPRESS will make all indians proud 8) .. displaying the indian culture and heritage a little to say about my land and people

Hot Sun
Hot Curries
Warm people

Good write Advisor ..

HAWK21M · Post by **HAWK21M** » 24 Mar 2005, 18:42

Looks good too
regds
MEL

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 24 Mar 2005, 21:14

brakes_78 wrote:
Nice Post Advisor. You seem to be an Air India Fan.

Alistair Bastian wrote:
Good write Advisor ..

HAWK21M wrote:Looks good too
regds
MEL

Thank you for all your encouraging responses. Generally at my age, people either check if someone even remembers them

For those who came in late,

Register in at AirIndia Express and :rock:

Link http://www.airindiaexpress.in/airindiae ... ration.asp

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 26 Mar 2005, 20:57

Pictures from Airliners Dot Net (Lest they feel, all credit was taken by Luchtzakers)

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 27 Mar 2005, 12:56

GOOD RANKINGS

And with the new image, AirIndia and AirIndia Express will :rock: the world of aviation.

Alistairbastian · Post by **Alistairbastian** » 29 Mar 2005, 21:57

The airline is not expected to touch Bahrain before October

http://www.keralanext.com/news/readnext ... 65669&pg=2

Alistairbastian · Post by **Alistairbastian** » 29 Mar 2005, 22:10

After the entry of low-cost carriers like Air Arabia and Air India Express, the traffic on the India-Gulf sector is expected to grow sustantially. Industry players opine that this increase could be as high as 30%.

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full ... t_id=86535

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 30 Mar 2005, 20:51

Will Air India Express have new counters OR Will they be using the existing AirIndia ones

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B737-800 for Air India Express

Announced today March 18th, 2005 aka Friday ;-)