Flying-Tiger From Germany, joined Aug 1999, 4111 posts, RR: 39 Posted (7 years 5 months ago) and read 2433 times:
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It will be headquartered in Chennai. Confirming this, Premier Airways Director V Chidambaram told Business Standard that the airline would connect all metroes from Chennai to begin with. “We have plans to connect other south Indian cities from Chennai,” he added.
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Premier Airways was in talks with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus for taking aircraft on lease, soures said, adding that it would take five aircraft initially. The airline would have total fleet of 26 aircraft over three years, they added.
“As the Airbus Industrie is running full on capacity, the European aircraft manufacturer will lease out aircraft and subsequently acquire fleet,” sources said
Cricket From India, joined Aug 2005, 2936 posts, RR: 7 Reply 2, posted (7 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 2226 times:
Honestly, I am going to give up on new carriers in India for some time. One gets annopunced every week it seems but our 'delightful' airports stay the same.