The airline will also make Chennai as its seventh base, by stationing one ATR aircraft to operate these services, after Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Visakhpatnam and Jaipur, a senior Alliance Air official said. It currently operated 55 daily flights to 36 destinations across the country with a fleet of 13 ATR planes. "We are enhancing air connectivity within the southern region with daily return flight services to Madurai, Coimbatore, Trichy and Vijayawda from Chennai. The addition of new flights will take the total number of services operated by Alliance Air to 59 flights per day. Alliance Air is one of the five airlines that has been awarded 128 routes by the government under its regional connectivity scheme.

Source: India Today August 20, 2017 16:30 UTC