Mohan Meakin to foray into aviation
Our Corporate Bureau
15 January 2005

New Delhi: Mohan Meakin yesterday announced the launch of a new low-cost domestic airline, Indus Airways. The airline is being launched in association with Krishna Gopal Beri of Beri & Beri Cold Storage and General Mills, P Lakhanpall, a London-based NRI and Baldev Seth, a garment exporter.

Former senior pilots of a public sector carrier will manage the operations of the new airline.

Indus Airways, which has received the required government approvals, is expected to commence services in April 2005. The carrier is expected to inter-connect northern Indian cities and later operate on the trunk routes with leased aircraft.

"The company has already got all the necessary clearances and is now awaiting the final nod of the civil aviation ministry. We hope to launch our services from April with five leased 50-seater Embraer RJ-145 aircraft," said Kapil Mohan, chairman of Mohan Meakin.

He said Indus Airways will be a low-cost but all-frills carrier. Mohan also said the airline will have Chandigarh and Delhi as its main centres of operation, and inter-connect Jammu, Amritsar, Shimla and some other major northern cities.

At a later stage, the airline would start operations to Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.

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