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Airlines A-I Express inducts 10th owned aircraft Our Bureau New Delhi, Oct. 16 Air India Express has inducted the 10th owned aircraft into its fleet, which is to be used to operate flights between India and the Gulf region. Official sources told Business Line that the aircraft reached Mumbai on Monday and would be inducted into scheduled services soon. The airline had ordered 18 Boeing 737-800 aircraft as part of the 68 Boeing aircraft order in December 2005. Air India Express, which is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Air India, started operation in April 2005 with three leased Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Currently, the airline has a fleet of 10 owned and seven leased aircraft. Air India Express operates from 11 Indian cities, including Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Chennai, Trichy, Mumbai and Delhi to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Muscat, Oman, Bahrain, Doha, Singapore and Colombo, among others. The airline proposes to introduce direct flights from Kolkata to Dhaka, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Other flights proposed are from Chennai to Kuala Lumpur and Johar Baru, apart from operating from Lucknow, Jaipur and Ahmedabad directly to Dubai. More Stories on : Airlines
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