Air India Express has decided to pull out a few international flights and deploy them on domestic routes in the country. This decision has been taken due to Air India undergoing a financial crunch. Air India Express will pull out flights from routes in the Gulf and South-East Asia among which are Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. The redeployment of these international flights will be in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. This process will take place around September this year with Air India Express functioning as a Low-Cost-Carrier (LCC).
Confirming this, a senior Air India official informed that the company is already working on a low-cost model. “We noticed that travellers, especially corporates, have switched over to low-cost airlines from Full Service Carriers on many domestic sectors,” added the official. According to a report in Economic Times, Tara Naidu, Chief Commercial Officer, Air India Express said, “Air India has drawn up a strategy where the merged entity Air India (the Indian Airlines-Air India combine) will emerge as a Full-Service Carrier and Air India Express will be our low-cost service |