May 4, 2003 at 8:49 pm
AIR SAHARA is the recipient of the former Birmingham European four Bombardier CRJ -200s (also see below FlyBE). The first aircraft will be delivered shortly. Based in Delhi, India, Air Sahara is part of the banking group of the same name and was established ten years ago. Concentrating mainly on northern India the airline (at one time called Sahara Airways) has a fleet of 11 Boeing 737, to various specifications.
By: Gaurav - 5th May 2003 at 18:00
JEt Airways is going to tkae over Indian Airlines. Thank god, maybe indian Airlines can imrove their service
By: KabirT - 5th May 2003 at 17:35
Sahara yes has now realised it has to act quickly, smartly and efficiently. Although they have lost alot for being linent and not aggresive, the company itself is in not that good of a shape. Air Sahara has woken up pretty late and when India is making new airlines come with easy regulations. No pvt. airline are not allowed to fly outside India but 9W is on verge of getting that area. Air Sahara anyway would not have opted to fly outside India as they first need to regulate there services within India. They need to pull up there socks if they need to compete with 9W. IC just runs on govt. officials who travel.
By: Saab 2000 - 5th May 2003 at 12:48
Sahara though now seems to have realised that it is being left behind and is expanding which can only be good for aviation in India? With fleet expansion, network expansion from both Jet Airways and Indian Airlines it is probably only natural that Sahara should expand to stay competitive?
Also, privately owned airlines are not allowed to fly international air routes out of India are they? Is this hampering Jet Airways and Air Sahara expansion progress?
By: KabirT - 5th May 2003 at 10:37
Not really…Air Sahara as i said has acted too late, they cannot compete with 9W when its set to over-take IC. Talking about expansion of aviation in India, yes with new small start ups coming up like Visaa Air and Deccan Aviation and Deccan being a loco, can start the idea od loco travel in India. 9W is getting better day by day…already is said to be one of the finest in the world. And today it inducted its B739 after celebrating a decade in Indian skies.
By: Saab 2000 - 5th May 2003 at 09:31
Good competition for Jet Airways? Seems like they are expanding a lot. There must be a huge expanding market in India for aviation?
By: KabirT - 5th May 2003 at 05:16
yep….trying to raise market share by operating feeder routes, shoyld have done this 2 years ago. 9W will replace there ATR 72s with EMB 170s. Also 9W is now the first S.E.Asian airline to operate the B739.