Air-India Express to fly soon

The low-cost public sector carrier, Air-India Express, will soon start operations from some southern cities to the Gulf and West Asia at 30 per cent lower fares than the regular ones, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said today.

The low-cost carrier, a fully-owned subsidiary of Air-India, whose "fares will be 30 per cent less than the regular fare will be started from some places in South India like Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad," he told the newly-constituted parliamentary consultative committee attached to the civil aviation ministry.

The international flagship would also begin a new Mumbai-London flight from December 2, he told the committee members.