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SIA expands in
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Singapore
Airlines
will expand
its Indian
operations
next month
with the
launch of an
additional
flight to
Ahmedabad.
Effective 26
March 2017,
the national
carrier will
launch a
fourth
weekly
flight to
the Gujarati
city, with a
new Saturday
service
complementing
the existing
Tuesday,
Thursday and
Sunday
departures.
Like the
existing
three weekly
flights, the
new service
will be
operated by
SIA’s
285-seat,
two-class
Airbus
A330-300
aircraft.
The outbound
flight
departs
Singapore’s
Changi
Airport 1840
and arrives
in Ahmedabad
at 2150. The
return
service then
leaves the
Indian city
at 2305 and
arrives back
in Singapore
at 0715 the
next
morning.
“Travel to
and from
Ahmedabad
has steadily
increased
over the
years.
Singapore
Airlines is
pleased to
offer an
additional
frequency to
meet the
growing
market
demand. The
new service
will provide
travellers a
much sought
after
weekend
departure
window, to
travel to
Singapore
and to
onward
destinations,”
said David
Lim, SIA’s
general
manager for
India.
As well as
Ahmedabad,
SIA flies to
the Indian
cities of
Bengaluru,
Chennai,
Delhi,
Kolkata and
Mumbai |
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AirAsia adds
domestic trio in
India |
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AirAsia India
has unveiled
plans to launch
a trio of new
domestic routes.
Effective 19
February 2017,
the low-cost
carrier will
commence flights
from Delhi’s
Indira Gandhi
International
Airport to the
cities of
Bagdogra in West
Bengal state,
Pune in
Maharashtra
state, and
Srinagar in
Jammu and
Kashmir. All
three routes
will be operated
daily using an
all-economy
class Airbus
A320 aircraft.
The three new
routes will
double the
number of
destinations to
which AirAsia
India flies from
Delhi from three
to six,
following the
existing routes
to Guwahati, Goa
and Bengaluru. |
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New player in
the sky: Zoom
Air takes off on
Feb 15 |
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A new
entrant,
Zoom Air, in
the aviation
space will
spread its
wings and
start its
commercial
operations
from
February 15,
reports
Hindu
Business
line. This
10th player
will focus
on regional
connectivity
and give
people
belonging to
tier II and
III cities
the
opportunity
to travel as
per a time
convenient
for them.
The airline
has the
right kind
of aircraft
to do
regional
routes from
a national
hub which is
Delhi,
Mumbai and
Kolkata.
Zoom Air
shall fill
the gap of
sectors that
are less
catered to,
by other
scheduled
airlines”,
said the
airline’s
Chief
Executive
Officer
(CEO),
Koustav Dhar
in an
interview
with Hindu
Business
line.
In a first,
the airline
will connect
Durgapur (Kazi
Nazrul Islam
International
Airport),
the largest
city in West
Bengal, with
daily
flights to
airports
like New
Delhi,
Kolkata and
Mumbai. Zoom
Air also has
an agreement
with the
operator
that if the
seats are
not sold it
will get
covered for
that. Apart
from that,
the company
will get
concessions
like
standard
Viability
Gap Funding
concessions
that are
advantages
on landing,
parking and
fuel
subsidy.
The airline
will have
aircrafts
from
Bombardier
which are
versatile
for short
sectors and
aptly suited
for Indian
Tier-II and
Tier-III
cities. The
Ministry of
Civil
Aviation, in
its
initiative
to promote
connectivity
of different
regions of
India,
launched the
Regional
connectivity
Scheme (RCS)
and Zoom Air
is now the
first
private
airline to
support and
join the RCS.
Places it
will
connect:
The airline
will start
its daily
operations
on the
Delhi-Kolkata-Durgapur-Delhi
sector and
it will
extend its
services
Amritsar in
the
afternoon,
followed by
Delhi-Surat-Bhavnagar-Delhi,
an evening
service.
Zoom Air
plans to
expand its
route
network to
destinations
such as
Tirupati,
Vijayawada,
Mumbai,
Shillong,
Aizawl,
Pasighat and
Zero (in
Arunachal
Pradesh),
Allahabad,
Gorakhpur,
Indore and
Bhopal, with
a likely
daily
operations.
Planes that
will soar in
the air:
The company
has leased
three
CRJ-200LR
aircraft
from CRJ
Aircraft
Leasing,
Dublin, out
of which two
have been
imported.
The aircraft
that Zoom
Air has in
its kitty is
Bombardier
Canadair
Regional
Jets, of 50
premier
seater
long-range
versions,
with quiet
cabin and
fast cruise
technology
and fitted
with high
performance
CF34-3B19
engines by
GE
Aerospace. |
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