TruStar

TruStar is an Indian low-cost airline promoted by Turbo Aviation Pvt Ltd based in Hyderabad. The airline plans to launch operations by the second quarter of 2020 with Dornier 228 aircraft.[1]

TruStar
Founded2019
Parent companyTurbo Aviation Pvt. Ltd.
HeadquartersHyderabad, Telangana, India
Key peopleVankayalapati Umesh

History

In December 2019, Turbo Aviation announced that it had secured a £100-million ($133.64 million) investment from a Business Group based in the UK for the launch of commuter air services under the third place of the UDAN scheme. The airline plans to start operations with the routes they have secured under UDAN, with plans to connect passengers all over India and eventually overseas destinations in the future. The TruStar fleet will include 10 ATR-72s, 10 Airbus A320 and 4 Dornier 228 aircraft.[2] In January 2019, under the third round of the Governments Regional Connectivity Scheme[3], also known as UDAN, TruStar had been awarded four routes in Uttar Pradesh[4], three routes across the States of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Goa, two routes between Hyderabad and Prakasham Barrage of Andhra Pradesh and between Chennai and Ramnad in Tamil Nadu and also routes connecting Raipur, Rourkela, Jharsuguda and Jagadalpur with Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad.[5] In Telangana, Turbo Aviation has been given permission to start services from Hyderabad to Nagarjuna Sagar, which will be a sea plane route.[6]

TruStar will be the first private airline to introduce the Dornier 228NG built in India at Kanpur by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) into scheduled commercial services in India.[2]

References
  1. "India's TruStar secures Do228s ahead of 2Q20 launch". ch-aviation. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  2. "Turbo Aviation to launch low-cost airline next year". The Financial Express. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  3. "UDAN 3: Results" (PDF). Airports Authority of India. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  4. "Trustar to start flights on Bareilly-Lucknow route". The Times of India. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  5. "UK group to invest Rs 950 crore in Turbo Aviation's new airline TruStar". Business Standard. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  6. "Under UDAN-III, 13 airports to get air connectivity for first time". Business Line. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
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