- Air India Regional
Infobox Airline
airline=Air India Regional
अलायंस एयर
logo=AllianceAirLogo.png
logo_size=150
fleet_size=15
destinations=24
IATA=CD
ICAO=LLR
callsign=ALLIED
parent=Indian Airlines
company_slogan=Your Palace in the Sky!
founded=1996
headquarters=New Delhi andMumbai
key_people=Capt. Mehbub Butt
hubs=Indira Gandhi International Airport
focus_cities=
frequent_flyer=
lounge=
alliance= Star Alliance (joining 2008 with Air India)
website= http://www.airindia.comAir India Regional started as Alliance Air ( _hi. अलायंस एयर), which was the low-cost arm of
Indian Airlines . As part of Indian Airlines' merger withAir India , Alliance Air was renamed Air India Regionalcite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work=Flight International | page= 73 | date= 2007-03-27] . It operates 357 weekly flights to 44 domestic destinations and remains a subsidiary of Indian Airlines. Its main base isIndira Gandhi International Airport , in Delhi.History
The airline was established on
1 April 1996 and started operations on21 June 1996 . It is wholly owned byIndian Airlines .The airline was renamed Air India Regional post-merger, its fleet of 737's were converted to freighters for the newAir India Cargo .Destinations
Air India Regional (Alliance Air) operates scheduled services to the following domestic destinations [ [http://mediacenter.indianairlines.in/iaschedule/iaschedule.xls] ] :
*
Andhra Pradesh
**Vishakhapatnam -Visakhapatnam Airport
*Assam
**Dibrugarh -Mohanbari Airport
**Guwahati -Gopinath Bordoloi Airport
**Jorhat -Rowriah Airport
**North Lakhimpur -Lilabari Airport
**Silchar -Kumbhirgram Airport
*Delhi
**Indira Gandhi Airport
*Gujarat
**Surat -Surat Airport
*Himachal Pradesh
**Kulu -Bhuntar Airport
*Jharkhand
**Ranchi -Birsa Munda Airport
*Madhya Pradesh
**Gwalior -Gwalior Airport
**Jabalpur -Jabalpur Airport
*Manipur
**Imphal -Imphal Airport
*Meghalaya
**Shillong -Umroi Airport
*Mizoram
**Aizawl -Lengpui Airport
*Nagaland
**Dimapur -Dimapur Airport
*Orissa
**Bhubaneshwar -Biju Patnaik Airport
*Rajasthan
**Jaipur -Sanganer Airport
**Udaipur -Maharana Pratap Airport
*Tripura
**Agartala -Singerbhil Airport
*Uttar Pradesh
**Allahabad -Bamrauli Airport
**Kanpur -Chakeri Airport
*West Bengal
**Kolkata -Subhash Chandra Bose Airport Incidents
*60 people were killed when
Alliance Air Flight 7412 crashed near theLok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport inBihar ,India .
*9 people were killed (6 on board and 3 on the ground) when Alliance Air Flight fromLakshadweep Islands toThiruvananthapuram crashed into a Naval Air Hangar inCochin inKerala ,India on July 29, 1998.Fleet
The Air India Regional fleet consists of the following aircraft (at July 2008):
*2 ATR 42-300
*3 ATR 42-320
*1Bombardier CRJ-700 (Ex-Styrian Spirit, first CRJ-700 in India)
*2Dornier 228 (Ex-Indian Airlines)External links
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=CD&al_op=1 Alliance Air Fleet]
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