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Air India Express, the fully owned subsidiary of Air India and the one where AIX Connect (erstwhile AirAsia India) is to merge, has decided to replace its Vista VIP class fares with XPRESS BIZ fares..
The airline will have a total of 190 MAX aircraft in its fleet, part of the 470 aircraft order placed by Air India in 2023..
Now that those planes were with Air India Express, in early December the airline announced Vista VIP fares where guests would enjoy these seats along with an increased baggage allowance of 40kg on international flights and 25 kg on domestic flights, hot meals and Xpress Ahead priority services at airports...
With the fleet which is not standardised, it often creates operational headaches when it comes to swapping aircraft since there remains a mix of planes which are with business class and those without and then comes the case of routes where it operates one flight with this offering and another without..
Will Air India Express go ahead with its plan of reconfiguration of planes in future or get buoyed by the success of Business class and continue the hybrid operations?.
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