MUMBAI: Orange is the new black for low-cost carriers.
While pink and blue have been the favorite colors for full-service carriers, orange and white are more and more being utilized by low-cost carriers of their emblem and livery.
After Akasa, Air India Express is the newest low-cost airline to sport an orange and white livery. The Tatas on Wednesday unveiled a white, orange, and turquoise colour-schemed livery for Air India Express, which has been merged with AirAsia India.
“We will be sunsetting the Air Asia India brand. You will continue to see two airline designators, IX and I5, on flight numbers for some time but the services, sales and distribution will be done under Air India Express branding,” the airline’s MD & CEO Aloke Singh mentioned. In the Nineties, Greek Cypriot entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s low-cost provider easyJet had taken to European skies with a white and orange painted fuselage. Australian low-cost provider Jetstar, too, has sported an orange and silver livery because it was based in 2003.
Air India CEO Campbell Wilson mentioned that the merged airline is on a fleet growth drive. “On an average… between now and the end of 2024, AI will take delivery of one new aircraft every six days,” he mentioned. Of the 190 Boeing 737 Max plane ordered, the primary two have already joined us, mentioned Singh. The airline unveiled the new livery of its unit Air India Express at an occasion held in its hangar in Mumbai on Wednesday night.
While pink and blue have been the favorite colors for full-service carriers, orange and white are more and more being utilized by low-cost carriers of their emblem and livery.
After Akasa, Air India Express is the newest low-cost airline to sport an orange and white livery. The Tatas on Wednesday unveiled a white, orange, and turquoise colour-schemed livery for Air India Express, which has been merged with AirAsia India.
“We will be sunsetting the Air Asia India brand. You will continue to see two airline designators, IX and I5, on flight numbers for some time but the services, sales and distribution will be done under Air India Express branding,” the airline’s MD & CEO Aloke Singh mentioned. In the Nineties, Greek Cypriot entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s low-cost provider easyJet had taken to European skies with a white and orange painted fuselage. Australian low-cost provider Jetstar, too, has sported an orange and silver livery because it was based in 2003.
Air India CEO Campbell Wilson mentioned that the merged airline is on a fleet growth drive. “On an average… between now and the end of 2024, AI will take delivery of one new aircraft every six days,” he mentioned. Of the 190 Boeing 737 Max plane ordered, the primary two have already joined us, mentioned Singh. The airline unveiled the new livery of its unit Air India Express at an occasion held in its hangar in Mumbai on Wednesday night.
