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Thursday, Jul 07, 2005
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Airlines More SE Asia flights, Seoul on AI radar Our Bureau
Mumbai , July 6 HAVING increased frequencies in its West bound sector, Air-India has turned its focus to South East Asia after private carriers Jet Airways and Sahara commenced flights on these routes recently. The national carrier will launch 14 additional flights effective tomorrow (July 7) to Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, taking the total number of flights in this sector to 47 a week. Seoul will also be added to Air-India's network under the new schedule. According to an official statement, many of the new services would provide direct non-stop connectivity between Mumbai and destinations in South-East Asia, besides improving connectivity between the South-East Asian nations. According to the release, Mumbai will now be connected with non-stop flights to Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. While capacity has been doubled on the India-Shanghai sector effective May 2005, flights to Osaka will increase from two to three. As per the new schedule, Air-India will have 16 flights a week to and from Singapore, with non-stop services from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad. While seven flights will link Chennai with Singapore, four flights will be operated from Delhi. There will be five services a week from Mumbai. Of these, three flights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays, will be non-stop and extended to connect Jakarta. Two flights from Mumbai will be routed via Hyderabad. Air-India will also increase the frequency of services to Kuala Lumpur. There will be 13 flights a week — seven from Chennai and three non-stop flights each from Mumbai and Delhi on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. The flag carrier will also continue to operate 18 code share flights per week with Malaysian Airlines — 13 on the Mumbai/Bangalore/Hyderabad-Kuala Lumpur sector and five on the Kuala Lumpur-Los Angeles sector. Air-India will double services to Hong Kong from five to 12 services a week. There will be five services from Mumbai to Hong Kong via Bangkok on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Seven additional flights will be operated to Hong Kong from Mumbai via Delhi, with three services extended to Osaka and four flights to Seoul. Thus, passengers will be able to travel by Air-India from Hong Kong to Bangkok, Osaka and Seoul. With the additional flights to Hong Kong, there will be flights departing from Mumbai every evening. Passengers will also have the choice of taking morning flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong on five days of the week, viz. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Passengers travelling from Hong Kong to Mumbai will also have the option of travelling by an afternoon flight on these days. Air-India will also operate 11 flights a week to Bangkok from Mumbai, as opposed to six at present. Of these, five will be extended to Hong Kong and six flights will be operated to Bangkok from Mumbai via Delhi. Four of the Mumbai-Bangkok flights will proceed further to Shanghai and the other two to Tokyo, thus offering connectivity to Hong Kong, in addition to Shanghai and Tokyo, from Bangkok. Air-India is recommencing services to South Korea effective July 7 after a gap of almost six years. Four flights a week will be operated from Mumbai to Seoul via Delhi and Hong Kong on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Traffic between India and South East Asia is expected to continue growing at 9-10 per cent a year. The new flights have been made possible following the induction of two Airbus 310 aircraft on dry lease in June-July 2005.
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