Indian to lease six regional jets, five A-320s
Adopting an aggressive posture to enhance its market share, state-owned carrier Indian on Monday decided to lease six 70-seater regional jets (RJs) for its subsidiary Alliance Air and five A-320s within this fiscal to expand capacity on its domest...
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Adopting an aggressive posture to enhance its market share, state-owned carrier Indian on Monday decided to lease six 70-seater regional jets (RJs) for its subsidiary Alliance Air and five A-320s within this fiscal to expand capacity on its domestic and international network.
With the induction of these single-aisle RJs, the Alliance Air would service new routes, especially those which cannot be profitably operated upon by the over 100-seater A-320 family of aircraft in a "cost-competitive manner", Indian CMD Vishwapati Trivedi told media here.
The Board of the Indian, at its meeting here on Monday, gave in-principle approval to these proposals. The Requests for Proposal (RFP) documents would be issued "as soon as possible" so that these aircraft are inducted by March 2007, he said.
The regional jets (RJs) are to be acquired from either the Embraer or Bombardier companies or any other leasing firm, he said. The RJs are a new type of aircraft to be inducted into the Airbus-dominated fleet of the public sector airline.
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