The National Aviation Company of India (Nacil), which operates Air India, took delivery of three A321 aircraft recently to further its domestic expansion plans. It will get three additional A319 aircraft in March. The national carrier will add four B777-700ERs and three B777-200CRs to its fleet from June to September, and use them for internationalroutes. … [Read more...] about INDIA:Air India adds 3 A321s to fleet

Chennai is seeing a contraction of services as Air France has advised the Airports Authority of India (AAI) that it would be withdrawing its three-times weekly service out of Chennai from end- March, joining Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines who have already cuttheir daily services to Chennai. … [Read more...] about INDIA: Air France joins SIA, MAS withdrawal from Chennai

European aerospace group EADS said its Chennai-based Paramount Airways is planning to launch a door-to-door cargo service under its own brand. “We are going to launch an all encompassing cargo division. It will be for door-to-door cargo service and will be introduced under the brand name ‘Paramount’,” Chairman of the airline M Thiagarajan told PTI. The airline currently transports about 100 tonnes per day of cargo and capacity will be expanded to about 300 tonnes a day by … [Read more...] about INDIA: Paramount Air to launch D2D cargo service

Jet Airways and Malaysia Airlines have signed a code share for flights between Kuala Lumpur and 5 major Indian cities, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru(Bangalore) and Hyderabad. Malaysia Airlines managing director/ CEO, Idris Jala said: “I am delighted to partner with Jet Airways as Malaysia Airlines work towards expanding and strengthening our hub-and-spoke network. This will allow us to capture untapped traffic from secondary points in India through the 5 Indian gateways onto … [Read more...] about INDIA: Code-share for Jet and MAS

Air India plans to go ahead with its planned delivery of the final three of eight B777-200LRs between June and August this year, despite the global crisis and resulting aviation downturn. Air India plans to deploy the aircraft on a new non-stop service to San Francisco in thesecond half of 2009. The National Aviation Co. of India Ltd., the state-owned parent of carrier Air India, plans to borrow US$1.06 billion to fund the purchase of these and additional aircraft from Boeing. India’s … [Read more...] about INDIA: Air India to go-ahead with B777 deliveries