Alliance Air is an Indian airline headquartered in Delhi , operating in the field of commercial air transportation in regional directions. It was founded in 1996 as a low-cost airline Alliance Air , then it was bought by the flagship carrier of the country Air India and changed its official name to the current one [1] .
| Alliance air | ||||
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| Established | 1996 | |||
| Hubs | Indira Gandhi International Airport | |||
| Alliance | ||||
| Tagline | Connecting india | |||
| Fleet size | eleven | |||
| Destinations | 27 | |||
| Parent company | Air india limited | |||
| Headquarters |  Delhi , India | |||
| Guide | Rohit Nandan ( CEO ) | |||
| Site | airindia.in | |||
The company operates about 357 scheduled flights per week at 25 domestic airports.
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History
Alliance Air was established on April 1, 1996 and began operating on June 21 of the same year. Since its inception, the company has been a subsidiary of another Indian airline, Indian Airlines .
After the merger of Air India and India Airlines, the company changed its official name to Air India Regional .
Routing Network
Fleet
In June 2013, the airplanes of Air India Regional were the following aircraft (all vessels were in wet leasing):
| Type of aircraft | In operation | Ordered | Passenger seats (Economy class) | Notes |
| ATR 42-320 | eleven | 0 | 48 | wet leasing |
| Total | eleven | |||
In February 2013, the average age of the airline's aircraft was 14.2 years.
Accidents
- July 17, 2000. The Alliance Air airline's Boeing 737-2A8 / Adv (registration VT-EGD), performing regular flight 7412 on the route Calcutta - Patna - Lucknow - New Delhi , lost control when it landed at the Nayak Jayaprakash ( Patna , Bihar ) airport and crashed into an office building. Onboard there were 58 people. 60 people were killed, including five on the ground [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Directory: World Airlines, Flight International (March 27, 2007), p. 73.
- ↑ Description of the incident on the Aviation Safety Network