In the second half of April, two A321 began to operate for Air India Express, a cheap Air India arm. It could be a routine deployment for every airline, with the exception of Air India Express, 108. The fleet plane is a new type.
With the induction of these two aircraft, the airline now has the B737-800NG aircraft, the only type it had when it was privatized, B737 Max8 (part of the Air India Group in 2023), A320ceo and A320neo, most of them were inherited from Airasia India, which connected with Air India. Some aircraft came from Parent Air India and now the A321 also come from Parent Air India.
Also read | Who is Nipun Aggarwal? New Air India Express Chairman
Why is it unusual?
Cheap carriers traditionally focus on one type of fleet. This helps airlines to maintain low costs by having a single training requirement, the ability to replace aircraft and crew and ensure better performance in time and efficiency. In addition, it helps on the side of engineering and maintenance by maintaining spare parts for only one type of aircraft.
Air India Express has always been in the shadow of its parent company Air India. He was a government entity that was predominantly limited to routes from the southern part of India to the Gulf.
Currently, the airline has a considerable domestic presence, part of which has inherited from the former Airassia India, which merged into Air India Express, and some transferred from Air India.
Also read | Air India Wilson’s CEO will resign as chairman of a cheap airline, AGGARWAL to take over
The air fleet now includes A321Neo, A320neo, A320CEO, 737 MAX8 and 737NG, over 100 aircraft. Although it is a traditional 737NG operator and created capabilities for 737 Max8, it inherited the ability to maintain the A320 family from the former Airassia India and Air India.
Finally, it shrinks into accounting. As an unchanged entity, it may never be known how the airline processes internal transfers, finance and inventory management.
Huge outflows on routes
The airline is expanding rapidly. In May it will be 1.5 times the size in which it was last May. Growth is more on domestic routes that will be almost three times in terms of capacity compared to last May.
However, this growth comes with many rise and falls.
The airline is growing rapidly on some holiday routes, such as Delhi-Srinagar, Bengaluru-Go and Tier II, such as Delhi-Oranchi, Bengaluru-Bhubaneswar. However, it also pulled out of routes such as Chennai-Kolkata, Hyderabad-Amritsar, Delhi-Gwalior or Jaipur-Pune.
Churn on routes is common when the airline grows as fast as Air India Express. However, the airline can hope that this outflow is handled well and does not create a negative impact on passengers.
The airline also received a flake for its timely performance, while parent Air India often shows better accuracy.
Huch
In his efforts to add capacity he has a puzzle. The old fleet has an old LIVREJ, each side of the tail showing a different scene from India.
Max 8 has the new Air India Express Livery depicting art and culture imprints from different countries of the country, has a wide range of A320, which has inherited from the former Airassia India, which are in red brine without titles, and has old Air India aircraft with stickers that mention its operations for Air India Express.
On the market limited by the capacity, it is only logical that the airline is waiting for the main control to remove the aircraft and plan to change the liter rather than remove it twice.
There are also many redelivers aircraft and may not be redrawn at all. However, such multiple Liveries never well for a customer -oriented company, which is rather strange about the image of its brand.
Also read | Air India Express-AIX Connect Fusion will drive long-term sustainable profitability: MD ALOKE SINGH
Tail note
India had two bankruptcies in the recent past, Jet Airways and go the first with the pandemic between them. Growth alleviated from what it was ten years ago.
In order to return the two -digit growth, the country needs capacity, but capacity induction may occur if there are slots at airports that are difficult to come to most large airports in the country.
In the middle of this, Air India is pushing Air India Express, seemingly with a lower costly structure to be the flag wearer of the competition against the indigo and fill the gap that was left to the carrier that collapsed.
In the past, Indigo has used its excellent financial numbers to enforce the competition by dropping the trails specific to the competition. However, Air India Express is coming up with a force that has not yet been seen and thus made it difficult to face the same strategies. Until the battle helps consumers, it will be a good battle in the field where both players are supported by large groups.
(Tagstotranslate) Air India Express (T) Air India Fleet (T) A321Neo (T) A320Neo (T) A320CEO (T) 737 Max8 (T) 737NG (T) Airasia India (T) Air India Merger (T) Low-Cost Carriers (T) Indian Aviation Growth (T) Domestic Air Routes (T) Airline Fleet Expansion (T) Indian Airlines (T) Air India Express Livery (T) Indigo Competition (T) Flight Operations (T) On-Time Performance (T) Airline Route Churn (T) Aviation Industry News Competition (T) Domestic Capacity Expansion (T) Aircraft Maintenance (T) Aviation News (T) Air India Express Fleet Diversity (T) Air India Express Strategy (T) Indian Aviation Sector (T) Air India Express Fleet Management (T) Houngundrum
