Air India to launch budget airline

Air India to launch budget airline

NEW DELHI: National carrier Air India will launch a new budget airline in April next year, a spokesman said on Saturday.

The low-cost airline, which has yet to be named, will offer 25 percent cheaper fares to Gulf and Southeast Asian destinations, and will target Indian expatriate workers, Jitendra Bhargava, a spokesman for state-owned Air India, told The Associated Press.

It will operate 127 flights a week from New Delhi, Bombay, Madras and some cities in the southern Indian state of Kerala to Dubai, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Bahrain in the Gulf and Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asia, Bharagava said. -- AP