Trujet to add six more airplanes into its fleet by December

Hyderabad-based Turbo Megha Airways Private Limited’s Trujet, said it is planning to double its fleet size and destinations served in India by end of this year.

Truejet currently has five ATR-72 carriers in its fleet serving 14 destinations in the South. The airline will be adding six more ATRs into its fleet by this year-end, enabling it to start operations to 10 more destinations which were allotted to the company under the second UDAN bidding.

Trujet was allotted five destinations under the first UDAN bidding and was the first carrier to connect all the five destinations allotted to it. These destinations include Cuddapah, Nanded, Bellary, Mysore and Salem. Besides these RCS destinations, Trujet connects to Goa, Tirupati, Aurangabad, Vijayawada, Rajamundri, Mumbai, Chennai, Bellari, Vidyanagar, etc. With the current fleet, the airline undertakes 32 daily operations, out of which 18 are covered under RCS. The airlines’ rates start as low as Rs 699.

In order to service the new destinations in the Eastern and Western parts, Truejet will station two airplanes in Guwahati and Ahmedabad respectively. They will connect to Keshod, Kandla, Rupsi, Tezu, Nashik, Jalgaon, Jaisalmer, Cooch Behar, Porbandar and Buranpur, the official said.

Trujet has entered into an agreement with Jet Airways for wet lease of some ATR aircrafts recently.