Wednesday, June 22, 2016

IndiGo will add flights to Bangkok, Dubai

IndiGo will increase flight frequencies to Bangkok and Dubai but the airline will not add new foreign destinations for the time being, say sources.
With the relaxation in the earlier '5/20' set of restrictions, new airlines AirAsia India and Vistara are preparing plans to fly abroad but IndiGo's focus has largely been on being first in the domestic market. It operates a little over 800 daily flights but only about 30-odd are international ones. It is the largest domestic airline, with a 38.5 per cent market share, and also the most profitable among peers. Its international route map is limited to five destinations – Bangkok, Dubai, Kathmandu, Muscat and Singapore, and the number of  foreign destinations has remained flat since 2011-12.
The share of international revenue to the total is a little less than nine per cent.
IndiGo will launch a Chandigarh-Dubai flight and plans to resume a Delhi-Bangkok service later this year.  This could be the first international flight from Chandigarh, following a litigation in the state high court over lack of international flights from the Punjab capital. On Tuesday, IndiGo began a Kochi-Muscat flight.
An IndiGo spokesperson did not respond to an e-mail query on the topic.
22/06/16 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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