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With both full-service and low- cost airlines now pursuing fleet-expansion plans, the world's aircraft manufacturers are focusing on India as a lucrative market. Alongside Boeing and Airbus, regional jet makers Bombardier and Embraer, as well as European turboprop maker ATR, have all benefited from the boom in the country's civil aviation sector. Alliance Air, the fully-owned subsidiary of Indian, is expanding its fleet of regional aircraft in a bid to revamp its operations as a no-frills carrier. The ageing Boeing 737 fleet of the airline is being phased out and one aircraft has already been dropped from the fleet for conversion into a freighter. The revised business strategy is in line with Indian's plan to induct two wide-bodied Airbus A330 aircraft and the impending merger with Air India.
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