Air India Express may fly to Kuala Lumpur, Singapore

New flights likely by March end

BY A CORRESPONDENT
February 27, 2006

Once the new Boeing 747-800 aircraft join the Air India Express fleet, the low-cost subsidiary of Air India is expected to start flying to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The tentative date to start these flights is March-end. Both services will be six flights a week. Air India Express is also planning to start more services to Abu Dhba and Muscat from Kerala during summer.

The addition of these four new Boeings will increase Air India Express fleet strength to seven and help Air India Express launch more low-budget overseas flights.

Air-India company secretary S Venkat has been quoted as saying that the airline is standardising departure timing from the destinations in the Gulf.

Air India placed a mega-order for 68 Boeing aircraft in January as part of its fleet expansion program. Some of these aircraft will go to Air India Express. Started in 2005, Air India Express is the low-cost subsidiary of Air India for overseas flights.