Budget flights to Southeast

Calcutta’s connectivity with Southeast Asia will receive a boost with Air-India launching its budget airline’s operations to three countries in the region from next month.
Three planes of Air India Express, the national carrier’s low-cost fleet, will fly thrice a week to Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Thrice-a-week flights will also be started to Dhaka.
Announcing this on Monday, V. Thulasidas, the chairman and managing director of Air-India, said the Calcutta-Bangkok-Calcutta operations would start on October 7. The one-way fare will be Rs 1,499 plus taxes. The one-way fare to Singapore will be Rs 4,999 plus taxes.
“The other flights to Southeast Asia and Dhaka will also start in October,” added Thulasidas.
The flights will take off from Calcutta around 7 am.
The flight to Kuala Lumpur would restore service in the sector after more than a year. Malaysia Airlines had stopped city operations in April 2006.
04/09/07 The Telegraph

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