Air India Express to increase weekly flights

Air India Express, the low-cost wing of Air India, is set to increase the number of weekly flights to 116 from 83 currently in the summer session starting from March 27 this year. Kerala will gain the most as the number of weekly flights from there will go up to 58 from 44 now. Air India Chairman and Managing Director V Thulasidas said there will be double daily operations between Chennai and Singapore, which includes three flights from Trichy. In addition to this, the company will fly nine flights from Mangalore to the Gulf, which includes five flights to Dubai, two to Abu Dhabi/Muscat and two to Doha/Bahrain. Pune will receive some benefits as well. There will be two flights between Pune and Singapore and three to Dubai.

Three flights between Chennai, Trichy and Dubai have also been planned. Air India Express also plans to resume daily services between Abu Dhabi and three airports in Kerala. "Seven additional flights between Kerala and Sharjah and daily services between Chennai and Colombo have also been conceived," Thulasidas said. Beginning with December 2006, Air India Express started getting the delivery of Boeing 737-800 aircrafts, two of which joined the fleet in December, three in January and one in February in 2007. Four more aircrafts are slated to join the fleet before the end of this year, he said.

Courtesy: PTI

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