Aeroflot to start flights to Calcutta, Bangalore, Amritsar & Ahmedabad

New Delhi: Russian airline Aeroflot plans to start flights to Calcutta, Bangalore, Amritsar and Ahmedabad.
The company, which has flights to Delhi and Mumbai from Moscow, wants to wing its way to other Indian cities as well. It also wants to increase the number of weekly flights to the two gateway airports if the Indian government permits. It plans to increase its flights to Delhi to 12 a week from seven and those to Mumbai to seven a week from four.
Igor V. Iveliev, general manager of Aeroflot, said the company was interested in Calcutta because of its immense growth potential and the traffic in the eastern market.
With 70 per cent of its seats filled up on an average day, Aeroflot feels it could turn India into one of its ‘milk cow’ routes. Iveliev said the company would like to increase the total number of flights from India to 30 after expanding its operations.
Sources said Aeroflot was weighing the option of operating flights between Amritsar and Moscow to cater to the rising demand of people from Punjab travelling to Europe, Canada and the US. Aeroflot also plans to expand its fleet and improve its services.
17/04/07 Kakoly Chatterjee/The Telegraph

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Categories: Foreign Apr 2007