Indian floats tender to lease wide-body aircraft

Dubai: Indian, the state-run carrier has floated a second global tender to lease 12 wide-bodied and four narrow-bodied aircraft to boost its domestic and international operations.
The recently re-branded airline, which starts taking delivery of 43 Airbus 320 aircraft worth $2 billion from October, believes the dry lease route will help it with faster expansion. Of the 16 aircraft being leased, 12 are wide-bodied aircraft which could help in substantial additional capacity.
According to Deepak Brara, director, Public Relations of Indian, the carrier's immediate goal is to expand capacity in all existing routes rather than flying to new destinations.
In Dubai, on his way back from Toulouse to review the state-of-the-art on-flight entertainment system to be installed in the new fleet of Airbus A320, Brara said Indian would expand its overseas network to long-haul destinations like South Asia, Australia and China by February.
04/08/06 Isaac John/Khaleej Times

To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline