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'Alliance Air' (Hindi: अलायंस एयर) is a low-cost airline based in New Delhi, India. It operates 357 weekly flights to 44 domestic destinations and is a subsidiary of Indian Airlines. Its main base is Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi.^[1]

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History

Destinations

Incidents

Fleet

External links

References

History

The airline was established on 1 April 1996 and started operations on 21 June 1996. It is wholly owned by Indian Airlines. 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. So this may make Alliance Air a dedicated freighter airline or a regional airline along with Air-India Express.

Destinations

Alliance Air operates services to the following scheduled domestic destinations (at January 2005): 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 Alliance Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2007):

★ 1 ATR 42-300

★ 3 ATR 42-320

★ 10 Boeing 737-200

★ 1 Boeing 737-200C

External links

★ Alliance Air Fleet

References

1. Directory: World Airlines