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Go Air to launch services from today

Staff Reporter

Coimbatore: The Mumbai-based Go Air, yet another new entrant in the civil aviation map, is launching its services on the Coimbatore - Mumbai sector from Friday (November 4).

Go Air is from the Wadia group, which has Bombay Dyeing, Brittannia and Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation amongst the other entities in its fold.

The Managing Director of Go Air is Jeh Wadia, son of Mr Nusli Wadia, Chairman of the Wadia Group. Go Air would be India's third low cost, no-frills carrier after Air Deccan and Spice Jet. The first aircraft, an Airbus A-320 with 180-all economy seats, had already arrived. All clearances for commencing the operations have been obtained from the authorities concerned and the services would begin on November 4, a spokesperson said.

The first aircraft would be flying in the Mumbai - Ahmedabad - Mumbai, Mumbai - Goa - Mumbai and the Mumbai - Coimbatore - Mumbai sectors beginning November 4. Later, on arrival of the second aircraft in November 2005, GO Air plans to operate services to Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Nagpur, Jaipur and Pune.

Delhi, Kolkata and other sectors would be opened up in due course as the other aircrafts get delivered. The airline would have 5 Airbus A-320 aircraft by the turn of its first year of its operations. To begin with, the airline would be offering a late evening Mumbai - Coimbatore - Mumbai flight and is scheduled to take off from Mumbai at 8:10 pm, arrive in Coimbatore at 9:55 pm and depart from Coimbatore at 10:35 pm. The airline would be pricing its tickets to make it the cheapest available to the early birds and could be purchased from the Go Air website, www.goair.in.

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