Air India announces winter schedule for Cochin

Kochi: Determined to face the increasing competition posed by foreign airlines at the Cochin International Airport Limited, Air-India (AI) has come out with an aggressive flight schedule for this winter. The winter schedule is set to come into force from Monday.
Air India Express (AIE), the budget arm of AI, has increased the frequency of its Gulf-bound as well as intra-State services from Kochi airport.
The airline proposes to augment the connectivity to Dubai with eight services in a week. There will be daily flights to Sharjah, while two services will be operated to Salalah. Nine services in a week will be operated to Abu Dhabi, four each to Muscat and Doha and Bahrain, and one service to Al Ain.
AIE will launch two weekly services to Mangalore. It will also retain its four weekly services to Mumbai.
The budget carrier will operate 10 services in a week to Thiruvananthapuram and five services to Kozhikode. With AIE taking over the services from Kochi in a big way, AI services have been restricted to three weekly services to Kuwait, two to Dammam and one service in a week to Riyadh.
In the domestic sector, AI will operate daily services to Mumbai and three services in a week to Chennai.
26/10/07 The Hindu

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