Alliance Air ( A wholly owned Subsidiary of Air India Limited) Founded 1996 Commenced operations 21 June 1996; 23 years ago IATA ICAO Callsign 9I[1] LLR[1] ALLIED[2] Alliance Air is an Indian airline which was started as a low-cost arm of Indian Airlines. As part of Indian's merger with Air India, it was renamed Air India Regional.[3] It operates 306 weekly flights to 42 domestic destinations as a subsidiary of Air India.[4] It operates mostly in Tier-2 & Tier-3 Cities in India connecting them to major metro cities.