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Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) which released winter schedule said between October 2017 and March 2018, two new airlines are to start operations and four new routes to be added to the network 19 per cent increase in Air Traffic Movement.
During winter 2017-18, the daily Air Traffic Movement (ATM) is expected to be at 614 at the start of the schedule, and will progress to reach 660 ATM per day - a projected growth of 19 per cent in overall ATMs.
New airlines that will begin operations from BLR Airport are Malindo Air that will connect travellers to Kuala Lumpur twice each week and DHL Aviation (cargo) that will operate to Bahrain once a week from BLR.
New Routes include daily connectivity by Jet Airways to Amsterdam, operations to Silchar via Kolkata and a flight to Udaipur via Delhi, starting October 29; Indigo will start 2 daily flights to Tirupati starting December 20. The top domestic carriers for this schedule will be Indigo and Jet Airways, while Emirates and Etihad Airways will be the top international carriers.
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