Mangalore: Air India Express to Fly Twice Daily to Dubai

PTI

Kochi/Mangalore, 07 Oct 2012 : Mangalore will see budget airline Air India Express flying twice daily to Dubai, three times a week to Muscat and Abu Dhabi and twice weekly to Doha and Bahrain.

 

Air India Express (AIE) on October 6 said it would operate 27 additional flights from Kerala and Mangalore to various Gulf destinations from October 28.

 

Announcing its winter schedule, the airline said it has increased services from Kerala and Mangalore airports to Middle East destinations from 92 a week to 119 a week.

 

As per schedule, Kochi will connect cities of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain, Doha and Sharjah daily, Muscat thrice a week.

 

Passengers from here will be offered convenient connections to Dammam via Kozhikode daily, and to Kuwait three times a week, with both boarding cards issued in Kochi and the baggage tagged to the ultimate destination, AIE said.

 

Kozhikode would connect Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam and Muscat daily; Salalah twice a week, Kuwait thrice a week and one weekly service to the city of Al-Ain, AIE said in a press release here.

 

Thiruvananthapuram would connect Abu Dhabi and Dubai daily, thrice weekly to Muscat, four times a week to Sharjah and twice a week to the city of Salalah in Oman.

 

On the domestic sector, AIE will operate daily flights to Mumbai from Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram, besides thrice weekly from Kozhikode to Mumbai and back.

 

‘This is the first time ever since its inception in 2005 that Air India Express is deploying so many services from the cities of Kerala and Mangalore to the Gulf and back’, an airlines spokesperson said.

 

This increase in capacity would help stabilise fares to a very large extent, benefiting the travelling public of this region, he said.