| 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 Following the merger of Indian Airlines with Air India the airline's 737-200 aircraft were withdrawn from service and the airline was renamed Air India Regional.[1]
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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.
Destinations
Alliance Air operates services to the following scheduled domestic destinations : 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, Nagpur, New Delhi, Port Blair, Raipur, Rajkot, Shillong, Silchar, Tezpur, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam.
Incidents
60 people were killed when Alliance Air Flight 7412 crashed near the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport in Bihar, India.
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)
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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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