29.07.2022 - 04:44 UTC
Now that Air India (AI, Mumbai Int'l) has been sold off, the government of India has begun work on privatising its former subsidiaries AI Engineering Services, AI Airport Services, and the regional carrier Alliance Air (India) (9I, Mumbai Int'l), officials have told the Times of India.
Alliance Air operates Air India Regional services on behalf of the now Tata Sons-owned flag carrier and has continued to use Air India branding for now, but in mid-April the national airline clarified that it was no longer a subsidiary and that it had stopped handling the regional carrier’s bookings and inquiries.
According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, Alliance Air currently operates a leased fleet of eighteen ATR72-600s, with two more of the Avions de Transport Régional turboprops due for delivery, plus one Do228-200 that was partially manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics and one more on the way. With these, it operates 821 weekly frequencies between 50 destinations as of the week starting August 1, all of them domestic, the ch-aviation...
12.04.2022 - 02:55 UTC
Alliance Air (India) (9I, Mumbai Int'l) took delivery of its first Indian-made Do228-200 on April 6, 2022, with VT-KNP (msn 4130) having arrived at Delhi Int'l from the Hindustan Aeronautics assembly line at Kanpur. Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows the Indian carrier subsequently began deploying the turboprop on various proving routes on April 8.
The aircraft is the first of two Hindustan Aeronautics-built and -owned Do-228-200s that Alliance Air is planning to induct to improve its ability to serve thinner routes under the government-funded Regional Connectivity Scheme (UDAN). In a clear sign of the aircraft's target market, VT-KNP is adorned with UDAN-themed stickers on its fuselage. It can seat up to 17 passengers, which is significantly less than Alliance Air's only other aircraft type, the ACV!ATR7260, which seats up to 70 passengers.
Alliance Air is also in the process of adding two ATR42-600s.
The airline was a subsidiary of Air India (AI, Mumbai Int'l) but was not subject to the same privatisation process. As such, it...
16.02.2022 - 05:45 UTC
India’s central government will attempt to privatise the groundhandling arm of Air India (AI, Mumbai Int'l) that remains in state hands during the coming financial year (starting April 1), starting the process by issuing an expression of interest (EOI), an unnamed official has told the Press Trust of India news agency. It has also received the green light to sell domestic carrier Alliance Air (India) (9I, Mumbai Int'l).
“We already have Cabinet approval for selling the subsidiaries of Air India. So we will come out with an EOI inviting bids for one of the groundhandling arms in the next fiscal,” the official said without specifically naming the company.
Four former Air India subsidiaries are currently positioned under Air India Assets Holding Ltd, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) established in 2019 to hold the flag carrier’s non-core assets and most of its debt. These are the groundhandling firm Air India Air Transport Services Ltd; Airline Allied Services Ltd dba Alliance Air; MRO unit Air India Engineering Services Ltd; and the Hotel Corporation of India Ltd....
