Air-India increases flights to Gulf, U.S.
Wednesday, 12 March 2003, 20:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: India's flag carrier Air-India (A-I) will increase its flights to the Gulf and operate a fourth weekly service to Newark in the U.S. from March 30. In a statement announcing its new summer schedule, the airline said its new flights to the Gulf would include a daily service from Kochi to Abu Dhabi and daily non-stop flights to Dubai from Mumbai, Delhi and Kochi. The frequency of flights to Saudi Arabia will increase to nine per week with new direct flights from Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi and a bi-weekly service from Hyderabad to Riyadh. Capacity on the Kozhikode-Jeddah route will be enhanced with the introduction of a Boeing 747-200 flight on Fridays, apart from the three weekly Airbus A-310 services on this route. With the introduction of daily Airbus A-310 flights to Dubai, the frequency on the sector has been raised from 29 to 38 a week. The flights will operate from Mumbai, Delhi and Kochi. The airline said it had restructured its services and linked Delhi with Kuala Lumpur. A fourth weekly flight to Newark in the U.S. on Sundays will increase Air-India's services to the U.S. to 14 per week.
Source: IANS
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