Alliance Air issues tender for 70-seat regional jets on dry-lease

Indian Airlines’ regional arm Alliance Air has issued a tender for dry-leases on six 70-seat regional jets for delivery from next April and it has also issued separate tenders for 20 pilots to operate and 20 engineers to maintain the aircraft.
Alliance Air has put the tender on Indian Airlines’ website and says it wants the six 70-seat regional jet aircraft on 3-7 year dry-leases and it wants deliveries to commence in April.
The carrier fails to mention which type of 70-seat aircraft it is willing to consider but it says the aircraft “should be fresh out” of a ‘C-check’ and the “aircraft should be less than five years old upon date of importation” into India. All three tenders close on 26 December.
Alliance Air and Indian Airlines currently have no regional jets so the tender represents a move into a new aircraft type.
01/12/06 Leithen Francis/Flight International

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